Howard Solomon

Currently a freelance writer, I'm the former editor of ITWorldCanada.com and Computing Canada. An IT journalist since 1997, I've written for several of ITWC's sister publications including ITBusiness.ca and Computer Dealer News. Before that I was a staff reporter at the Calgary Herald and the Brampton (Ont.) Daily Times. I can be reached at hsolomon [@] soloreporter.com

Articles by Howard Solomon

How iPhones came to a Toronto hospital

Unsatisfied with the applications on the market for linking disparate information systems, a CIO chose to build a new front end so medical staff can access data with mobile devices

Public wants medical info, mobile conference told

Increasingly, the medical community is allowing patients to get access to personal information on mobile devices. Read why one Ontario doctor is getting into business herself

Prepare your network now for the cloud, says analyst

Without a cloud migration plan, operations expenditures will be higher than expected and opportunities will be squandered

Barrett keeps its options open for switching to LTE

In choosing its core network equipment provider, the company that will soon launch a fixed wireless WiMax-based service for parts of rural Canada, leaves option to shift to LTE

TelePresence comes to three Manitoba universities

With the help of government funding, Cisco-equipped rooms will help the institutions bridge hundreds of kilometers between them

EMC creates new unified storage family

The company unifies storage attached networks and network attached storage in one box. Also, for the first time, it has created a line to appeal to small business rn

Big WLAN announcement coming soon, says HP exec

There were no details, but the head of HP Networking promised a major move is coming. He also told Canadian reporters that arch-rival Cisco Systems is losing market share to HP

Mitel names new CEO

Mitel Networks Corp. has chosen a communications industry veteran as its new chief executive officer. Richard McBee, who had been president of the communications...

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