Stefan Dubowski

It's one thing to know your colleagues and customers by name and face. It's quite another to know them by the lengths of their vocal tracts and the ratios of their larynxes to their sinuses.

A group of computer scientists at the University of San Francisco plan to make a mega calculating machine out of a bunch of strangers' PCs.

Nokia Corp. says its upcoming mobile communication device helps the enterprise ease wireless into the IT infrastructure. But one industry observer says the vendor faces a challenge, an ingrained mentality among corporations that cell phone management is the end user's responsibility, not IT's.

If hardware vendors take the advice of one industry analyst, the enterprise can expect the likes of Cisco Systems Inc. and Nortel Networks to pay greater attention to individual market segments.

Representatives from computer industry associations say the federal government has delivered a laudably IT-minded budget, although they add that the feds still have some work ahead to make Canada a truly high-tech friendly place.

A few years ago, it seemed telcos like Bell Canada and Telus Corp. faced a significant threat in Wi-Fi, a technology that provided mobile data connections that were fast enough to compete with the carriers

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Wireless packages that speak to individual businesses and industry sectors will drive the wireless local area network (WLAN) market, according to one Bell Canada executive.