Rebecca Reid

Articles by Rebecca Reid

B.C. water watcher banks on IT

After the widespread illness and deaths that followed the E.coli outbreak in Walkerton, Ont., many Canadians were shocked to learn their drinking water wasn

S.C. Johnson goes with custom-tools

Finding the right software to solve a specific business need can be frustrating. When companies can

BCAA gives customer tracking a boost

Before deploying customer relationship management (CRM) software from Siebel Systems Inc., it was nearly impossible for the British Columbia Automobile Association

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Buying auto insurance is faster for B.C. motorists now that Barton Insurance Brokers Ltd.

Edmonton spammer case goes before Supreme Court

An Edmonton man, who was acquitted two years ago in Alberta for selling a credit card generator and recipes how to make explosives, over the Internet, saw his case go to the Supreme Court of Canada on Friday.

Feds reap rich rewards with e-learning

Three years ago the Ministry of Public Works and Government Services of Canada (PWGSC) launched an e-learning initiative that is starting to transform how federal government employees acquire new skills. Dubbed the ICT E-Learning Gateway, the program enables users across multiple federal departments to learn IT as well as Office Application (OA) skills

Canadian companies are open source wary

Despite the Linux buzz, by and large the most widely-deployed OSS is the Apache Web server, which is also the most widely used Web server in the industry, according to IDC Canada Ltd.

Interfor centralizes IT, gets clear-cut benefit

For International Forest Products Ltd. (Interfor), growth over the years has meant acquiring new companies and opening new offices. The end result has been...

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