Careers & Education

Maybe you've seen that Southwest Airlines Co. commercial in which an office worker unintentionally unleashes an e-mail virus and then stands in astonishment as her negligent act comes crashing down - audibly, no less - on a sea of fellow cubicle dwellers.

Rene Hamel has spent most of his career fighting bad guys. But for the last ten years his greatest weapons have been his IT skills and his investigative mind.

Waterloo, Ont.-based enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Open Text on Tuesday said it is improving operational efficiency by cutting 130 jobs from IXOS Software AG, the German ECM software maker it recently acquired.

Information is arguably the most valuable currency for today's public- and private-sector organizations. To fulfill the information needs of its workers, a government information system must meet a variety of functional requirements.

Fears that offshore developers will take jobs away from North American counterparts are being overblown, charged a keynote speaker and noted author at the recent Software Development Conference & Expo West 2004 event in Santa Clara, Calif.

Aberdare Cables (Pty) Ltd., a South Africa power and telecommunication cable manufacturer and a member of the Altron Group of companies, Thursday announced the sale of 30 per cent of its equity to a Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) grouping led by the newly established Izingwe consortium, in a transaction valued at approximately R165 million (US$25 million).

A project valued at $48 million to unite supercomputing installations at four universities in western Canada has been completed, WestGrid announced this week.

Large-scale data processing reached new heights when Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) on Thursday announced that its Altix 3000 server for clustering will scale up to 256 processors in one node.