Shane Schick

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The make-believe notebook PC

Some friends of ours recently said that their toddler recently asked for a toy vacuum cleaner, so that he could vacuum the floor “just...

YouTube Fridays: Inspiration from the Web 2.0 Summit

Just when you thought you were sick of hearing about next-generation online companies, along come a couple of industry veterans (John Batelle and Tim...

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Sun and HTC have launched two enterprise products that every Canadian IT manager needs to have on their radar. Plus: An old favorite from Microsoft

WePC.com offers a chance to crowdsource the desktop

A 20+ inch widescreen laptop with pen interactable screen and low resulotion double layered cover for the screen itself so you can have an...

If I were president-elect Barack Obama’s IT manager . . .

He’s going to have his hands full. There’s the sagging economy, the war in Iraq and a string of domestic issues facing Barack Obama...

Slide show: The tech industry’s 10 ugliest exec ousters

They once reached the height of power at some of the largest vendors, preaching to IT professionals about where the market was headed. Then they headed out the door

5 IT mergers that should have been

I recently published a slide show looking at all the rumoured takeovers and acquisitions that, for whatever reason, just didn’t work out. I called...

SLIDE SHOW: 10 IT mergers that might have been

IT managers are getting used to major consolidation among their vendors, but not all company marriages reach the altar. We offer a look back why some major unions failed

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