Emerging Tech

An e-vision, whatever else it does, must firmly establish in the organization, and especially the management team, a shared understanding of the value of the Web as a business asset. It must also establish agreement on how this value is to be measured.

I was recently reminiscing with some friends who, like me, are also in the quarter-century club of Information Technology professionals. We have seen an awesome transformation of the business world. Technology has completely re-invented the office.

Fibre-optic communications equipment company JDS Uniphase Corp. announced today that it would cut an estimated 3,000 employees amid the current business climate 350 of which will take place immediately in Canada.

3Com Corp., citing the U.S. economic downturn and turmoil in the telecommunications industry, said Monday that it would cut 1,200 employees or about 13 per cent of its staff.

Computer thieves beware! Beefing up its theft-recovery and PC tracking software, Absolute Software Corp. recently released Computrace version 8.0, complete PC Asset Tracking.

EDS Canada announced Monday it was awarded a $200 million contract over the next five years to redesign and manage the Ontario government's computer network.

Two days of oral arguments in the U.S. antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. opened Monday with the lead lawyer for the software giant arguing that the company never foreclosed Netscape Communications Corp. from selling its browser in any part of the marketplace.

Size really does matter, at least for the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). The IAB has issued new guidelines for larger online ads, giving electronic retailers more space to market their products.