Lindsay Bruce

For the past five years, Omniterra Solutions Inc. has been looking for a less-cumbersome mobile communication setup for its travelling employees. Thanks to a Canadian computer maker, the firm has finally found a solution.

At its Mobility Developer Conference held in Toronto recently, Microsoft Corp. demonstrated key areas of its new wireless offerings while discussing the past, present and future of the mobile industry to an audience of developers.

Hyperion Solutions Corp. announced on Wednesday its intentions to purchase Brio Software Inc. in a transaction valued at over US$140 million, making it the second acquisition involving business intelligence software (BI) companies in six days.

Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Corp. recently announced the release of its Mobile Information Protection service, which focuses on information distributed outside the data centre on desktops, laptops and PDAs, the company said.

In an announcement by Allstream Inc., formerly AT&T Canada, on Wednesday, the company said it has completed a network support agreement with AT&T Corp. that will give customers the same services that were offered by the former Canadian division of AT&T.

According to a report released Tuesday by Pyramid Research LLC, the next five years will show a dramatic increase in global Wi-Fi usage, climbing up to over 700 million users.

A survey of Canadian CIOs released this week indicates that IT spending will increase slightly over 2003.

In a report released last week, West Technology Research Solutions (WTRS) LLC said it is anticipating the start of a moderate adoption growth cycle for ZigBee technology by the end of 2004