Emerging Tech

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When classroom settings are a must, SMART Technologies Inc. of Calgary, Alta., supplies nSMART Roomware solutions that include interactive whiteboards, multimedia cabinets, and software that is said to facilitate meeting, teaching and training.

Electronic learning or e-learning -- educating employees using Web-enabled materials over the Internet -- is taking off as the training method of choice here in Canada.

Encryption Plus Hard Disk from PC Guardian is said to securely guard every byte of information on a computer's hard disk by using the fast, never-been-broken Blowfish algorithm and a 192-bit encryption key.

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."

The recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have been labeled a wake-up call.