Shane Schick

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YouTube Fridays: Apps folders as the medicine cabinets of IT

If Andy Warhol were alive and watching YouTube (and boy, would he have loved YouTube), this is the kind of clip he would have...

The results are in

How embarassing — Microsoft commissions teststhat compare Vista and XP, with the goal no doubt being to show howmuch better the new version is....

Ottawa Senators overhaul IT before NHL draft

The hockey team works with IBM on a project that will see new hardware, software and virtualization technology. Why even the off-season generates compute demands

Kids aren’t the IT power users we thought they were

It was enough that John Kenneth Galbraith, the great Canadian economist who died last year, came up with the term “conventional wisdom.” He couldn’t...

Telus expands high-speed wireless in B.C., Alberta

The company has spent the last three years installing hardware at more than 1,100 cell sites in the two provinces, with the final location being Mount Byng, near Port Alice on northern Vancouver Island

The top 10 ballads never heard at IT product launches

Every time I go to a product launch of user conference keynote I think the same thing: Why does that devil music have to...

Behind the improvements in Windows XP SP3

Preston Gralla, who writes for our Computerworld counterpart in the U.S., published a story this week that examined the benefits of SP3. Well worth...

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