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

Allstream takes its fight public

The Manitoba telco is urging organizations to join its fight to persuade the federal cabinet to overturn a CRTC ruling allowing Bell and Telus to de-regulate high speed services to businesses. Along with ISP and small business allies, it's pushing an online petition to MPs as a way to show politicians it's a hot issue rn

Privacy commissioner slaps Bell over traffic management

Agency rules that Bell could better explain what it's doing with deep packet inspection, the technology it uses to slow traffic of bandwidth hogs

Paessler brings back Windows for Network Monitor

Some administrators missed the old interface, so its back in the application. Also new in the upcoming version 7.2 are sFlow, Hyper-V, Amazon cloud and QoS sensors

Saint John to host North American Genesys support

Canada will become the North American support hub of Alcatel-Lucent's Genesys division, which makes contactcentre solutions for connecting enterprises to a wide range of telecomdevices....

Fortinet client adds SSL, VPN, WAN optimization

The latest version of Fortinet's FortiClient Endpoint Protection Suiteintroduces what the company says is a host of enterprise-class featuresfor performance-intensive environments. FortiClient 4.1...

TelcoBridges monitor adds voice recording

TelcoBridges Inc. has released improved versions of its Tmonitornetwork monitoring software for telecom service providers. The TM2000 and TM3000 detect, filter, and record allsignaling...

Wireless operators promise ‘simple language’ in contracts

Code of conduct promises wireless operators will give buyers information to make informed decisions. But don't expect the fine print to disappearrn

Y’all are welcome up here, eh

Last week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission politely announcedit will peer into the wireless industry's honesty, monopolisttendencies and lack of imagination. The FCC didn't...

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