Mari-Len De Guzman

Calgary-based transportation firm Swanberg Bros. Trucking Ltd. set out on a mission three years ago to develop a new system that can efficiently handle all communications for the firm

Phil Sorgen

Numerous government agencies and not-for-profit organizations in Canada provide a wide range of assistance for small companies with big ideas. One such entity is the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) of the National Research Council of Canada. IRAP offers R&D funding and technical assistance to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) committed to innovation, with a vision to transform a concept into a product, process, or service that can be brought to the marketplace.

As enterprise-level anti-spyware tools become available to protect businesses from potentially unwanted programs, many Canadian firms have yet to integrate these mechanisms into their information security infrastructure.

After three years of ongoing multi-sector consultations, the controversial lawful access bill was finally introduced last week in the House of Commons, but the opposition party doubts the bill will survive the current political power struggle.

While "business continuity" is a growing concern among top corporate executives, a lot of them seem unwilling to back that concern with spending on appropriate resources. As many as 33 per cent of 117 Fortune 1000 C-level executives polled by a recent survey don't expect their companies to increase IT spending on business continuity measures. And this is though an overwhelming majority

Rogers Communications Inc. is targeting Canada's three million field service workers with the launch of a new wireless offering that the company says will transform paper-based business processes into electronic mobile transactions.

Two major players in the Canadian telecom industry have teamed up to provide broadband access and high-speed Web connectivity to a small northern Ontario town, which the companies say would open the door to unlimited socio-economic opportunities for the community.