The drop in worldwide PC sales has been so severe for IBM Corp. that the company has moved its PC sales division back into its normal sales and distribution channel, eliminating it as a stand-alone unit.
Canadian IT entrepreneurs are becoming more reluctant to take their companies public according to a recent survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada that reported Thursday that if initial public offering (IPO) activity continues to decline it will reach its lowest level in the past decade. Technology once the darling of IPOs saw its activity drop dramatically.
EDS Canada signed a $400-million agreement with the Bank ofnCanada last week, to provide all business operations supporting the sale, customer service and redemption of savings bonds issued by the Government of Canada over the next nine-and-a-half years.
Last April, the province of British Columbia joined Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia and The Yukon in giving digital signatures the same legal status as their pen-and-ink counterparts. The U.S. government has passed similar legislation as well.
CIBC has teamed up with Toronto-based Advantex Marketing International Inc. to offer CIBC Aerogold cardholders an Internet-based shopping rewards program developed by Advantex for CIBC.
Large organizations seeking to transform legacy print stream data into Web-ready content for e-business will benefit from the recently announced integration of Xenos d2e Platform with IBM's Content Manager OnDemand Version 7.1, says Xenos.