Shane Schick

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IT leadership as I see it

You’ll never be able to say everything there is to say about leadership in an hour, but the conversation yesterday on Microsoft’s Ignite Your...

FAQ: Canada prepares for IFRS conversion

A new standard for financial reporting will be mandatory in less than two years. What you need to know to close the GAAP

Video: Microsoft Canada answers your IT career questions

Every time we publish something about a skills shortage or a lack of IT talent inCanada we get lots of comments. Recently I had...

Going once, going twice . . . sold by the Government of Canada!

I’m not sure what Public Work’s online auction site will eventually look like, but don’t count on a lot of comparisons with eBay.The Canadian...

YouTube Fridays: Name that out-of-work IT manager

I've shown a number of clips recently of technology executives who are putting themselves in front of the camera to market themselves, and one...

The trouble with Joomla

Hell hath no fury like an open source community scorned.That’s one way we could have interpreted the feedback we got to a story we...

What’s worth more: Diamonds or a data centre?

We refer to the unlawful seizure of electronic information many things – a security breach, data theft, hacking – but for some reason we...

Canadian IT industry layoff resource centre launches

Thousands of IT workers have already lost their jobs. Many others could soon follow. ComputerWorld Canada takes the wraps off a microsite that will bring together news, education and connections to labour market experts

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