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How Twitter helped Toronto IT execs generate $10,000 in five days

I’m a latecomer to Twitter, but I’d only been on it for a few days when I started hearing about an event that was...

Sun updates partitioning, replication in MySQL 5.1

The open source database may become a better competitor against Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server with features designed to ease adminstration and boost performance. Canadian users comment on the release

YouTube Fridays: How to recruit an IT manager for SAP work

I've seen stuff on YouTube before with out-of-work technology professionals pitching themselves to prospective employers, but not as much from the recruiting side looking...

Three knee-jerk Facebook groups IT pros could create

Almost as soon as Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s political rivals started banding together in a coalition to bring down his government, groups of concerned...

RIM chases Certicom to better protect BlackBerry

Research In Motion is attempting a $66 million hostile takeover for a Mississauga, Ont.-based company that specializes in elliptic curve cryptography. Security experts gauge the potential benefits for enterprise BlackBerry customers

Video: Red Hat’s CTO discusses the state of open source

We had Michael Tiemann, vice-president of open source affairs at Red Hat SoftwareInc., stop by our studio recently for a wide-ranging discussion on non-proprietarysoftware....

The Nokia N97 is a name only a product engineer could love

This is the definition of a technology status symbol: You go into a restaurant or a bar, you take out your device and someone...

Find the Hilary Clinton on your IT project and co-opt her

There really isn’t much of an equivalent within enterprise IT to what Barack Obama has done in choosing Hilary Clinton as his Secretary of...

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