STEWART BROWN

Bell Canada has completed its field trials of Xybernaut Corporation

Business intelligence may seem to be an oxymoron to many organizations, but one vendor hopes its latest software will allow customers to make the kind of strategic business decisions they need to find from the masses of data they collect.

Air Canada and IBM announced Friday a seven-year, $1.4 billion strategic partnership to research business opportunities in the areas of customer service and IT solutions for the airline and travel industries.

On its eastward march to become a major national telecommunications player and go head-to-head with Bell Canada, Telus Corp. announced two more moves as the company focuses on central Canada.

Compaq Computer Corp.

On the day that Microsoft announced its MSN Messenger service had surpassed America Online Inc.

Ontario

Canada's commercial banks have certainly embraced technology bringing their clients automated teller machines (ATMs), telephone and online banking and more recently wireless banking. However, technology may yet prove to be the commercial banks undoing.