STEWART BROWN

John Pickett, editor-in-chief of LTI Publications, and Peter Carr, associate director of Athabasca University's Centre for Innovative Management, discuss the results of the AU/CIO Canada survey, released this week, on the application of information technology in Canadian business at a national press conference in Ottawa.

Nortel Networks

A Nortel Networks spokesman confirmed today that the company plans to cut over 900 jobs in Canada as the company switches its focus from voice to data products.

In addition to being inflexible, traditional databases can also become extremely large and costly to maintain. That

Industry analysts are calling the formation of a new $4-billion Canadian multi-media company by BCE Inc. and...

Financial institutions are banking on their customers' love of the Internet in a bid to make it the next major delivery channel for financial services. However, they face increasing pressure from new online players such as ING Direct.

A mobile software start-up will soon be offering Canadian e-mail users the ability to access multiple accounts on a variety of devices. The offering will be part of a new Canadian wireless Internet service from Rogers AT&T Wireless Inc., Go America Communications Corp.

Data comes streaming into organizations' data banks and the flow is constant. The amount of data an organization can capture seems to grow every day, and even more is flowing in for those firms with e-commerce initiatives.