IT World Canada Staff

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, has launched Teradata Data Warehousing for Oracle Environments, a data warehousing offer for Oracle users. The new offer is designed to facilitate companies adding data warehousing to their Oracle operational environments, or migrating their data warehouses or data marts from Oracle to Teradata.

Recently announced networking products and software from Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd. is intended to help IT managers scale their systems to meet fast-growing demands. The new products and software are said to expand the capabilities of Ethernet networking for use in highly available and efficient business environment infrastructures.

Increasing productivity and shortening lead times are priorities at West Bay Semiconductor Inc., a privately owned fabless semiconductor company based in Vancouver, B.C. Since its formation in July 1999, the company has been working to develop unique, highly advanced optical networking chips with the goal to be the number one provider of optical networking semiconductors in the world.

Call-Net Enterprises Inc. confirmed on Tuesday that it was undertaking a restructuring that would include a workforce reduction of 15 per cent.

Toronto-based Electronics manufacturer Celestica Inc. announced Monday that it has entered a five-year strategic alliance with Avaya Inc., a corporate networking solutions and services provider.

Dell Computer Corp. has announced a worldwide recall of batteries used in its Inspiron notebook computers, which can overheat and may catch fire, the company said Thursday.

With the technology industry expected to continue its soaring growth throughout the next decade, nearly half of Canadian lawyers polled in a survey believe intellectual property will be the hottest practice area in law over the next 10 years, a survey reported Thursday.

Brian Tobin, Minister of Industry, and Gaylen Duncan, president and CEO of the...