IT World Canada Staff

A new worm that can infect all 32-bit Windows computers and propagates using multiple methods has spread across the world Tuesday morning, according to Roger Thompson, technical director of malicious code at TruSecure Corp.

Ranked among the top five fastest-growing companies last summer by Profit magazine, Calgary-based wireless vendor Wi-LAN Inc. announced Friday it is cutting 55 per cent of its staff in order to improve the company

As the world comes to grips with the sudden and savage attack on the United States this morning many in the IT World community were deeply affected as well.

Aliant Telecom is asking its customers in Atlantic Canada to restrict use of long distance, wireless and Internet networks, where possible, to emergency use only in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States.

Fredericton-based IT educator Mosaic Technologies Corp. ended speculation late last month by announcing it will acquire the assets of troubled ITI Education Corp.

Bank of Montreal (BMO) announced in June that it has enhanced its wireless service to offer more detailed stock and index information and the ability to personalize news delivered to mobile phones or personal digital assistants (PDA's), such as the RIM BlackBerry.

With promises of cost-effective storage provisioning and remote management capabilities, Novell, Inc., in July announced the Novell NetDevice NAS, the first network attached storage appliance in the Novell NetDevice family of specialized server appliances.

The full benefit of e-business investments will not reach the bottom lines of many large financial institutions for at least another year, until more strategic initiatives begin to contribute to improved results, according to financial services executives surveyed by Toronto-based A.T. Kearney, the management consulting subsidiary of global services leader EDS.