Project Management

IT spending projections for 2006 continue to improve after a dip last fall, according to the monthly CIO Magazine Tech Poll released Monday. CIOs are now predicting that their IT spending will increase by 7.8 per cent over the next 12 months, up from predictions in November that it would rise 5.7 per cent this year. CIOs in October had projected that IT spending in 2006 would rise by 5.2 per cent.

Addressing what analysts have said was the main deficiency in its identity management suite, Novell has enhanced the provisioning functionality in the newly released Novell Identity Manager 3 (IdM 3).

When a worker with SARS-like symptoms kept going to work during the SARS scare in 2003, HP Canada

rnThe phrase necessary evil may not be the savviest way of describing it, but keeping a handle on IT governance will likely remain a key priority for CIOs in 2006.rnrnrnrnThat was clear...

Sign on the pixilated line Interlink Electronics of Camarillo, Calif. has released the ePad XL interactive signature terminal. Designed for deployment in banks,...

Elections Canada is laying a foundation for future evolution and changes are afoot in British Columbia, but across the country most election-related technology innovation is confined to the municipal level.

Microsoft Corp. will invest US$1.7 billion in India over the next four years, Chairman and Chief Architect Bill Gates said Wednesday in Delhi. The funds will be spent on Microsoft's development operations in India and other areas in line with the company's strategic vision for India, Gates told reporters in Delhi. Microsoft joins several other multinational technology companies, such as Intel Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc., which are making large investments in India in anticipation of a boom in the country's IT and communications markets.

To regard the business as a customer -- the customer -- of the IT department is a sensible practice, with one exception: handling the strategic aspects of information technology requires an approach and attitude beyond what is generally recognized in IT as serving the needs of the business.