Emerging Tech

Walmart.com, the online arm of the world's largest retailer, said Tuesday that it has laid off 24 employees, or about 10 per cent of its workforce, as it cut operations that weren't effective on the Internet.

File swapping on the Internet hit a sour note Tuesday with the appearance of a virus that attacks users of the Gnutella file-sharing service and that several anti-virus vendors say is the first virus to affect peer-to-peer communications.

CRM (customer relationship management) as a brand is nearing its expiry date, as large companies realize successful CRM strategy lies in adaptable management and business savvy, not technological know-how, industry analysts Gartner Group said.

Late last year, Howard Schmidt, Microsoft Corp.'s director of security, quietly wrestled the software vendor's physical and IT security functions into one burgeoning unit that's now dubbed the information assurance program.

L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. wants to introduce a new verb. In a few years time everybody will be "blipping," the Swedish company said Thursday.

With technology playing an ever more important role in the delivery of government services, we thought the time as right to poll the CIOs of the provinces and territories on the issues and initiatives at the top of their IT management agenda. And although these governments share a similar vision for IT in many respects, we also found a remarkable diversity of initiatives, accomplishments and incipient challenges.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new type of cable that can quickly and efficiently shoot light over long distances and around sharp bends

Rumors abound about the ludicrous promises and pressure tactics employed by "education mills."