Emerging Tech

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.

The majority of Canadians have never heard of programs like InLARGE, Window-Eyes, JAWS or ZoomText but for the thousands of Canadians who are blind or visually impaired these are important programs that allow them to use computers and the Internet in much the way a sighted person does.

The Internet's premier standards-setting body has selected its first non-American as its leader, in what is being hailed as a sign of the group's increasing global participation.

The Dutch competition authority on Friday cleared two phone operators of suspicions of colluding during the country's auction of third-generation (3G) mobile phone licenses last July.