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How healthy is your company’s information technology strategy? Canadian firms have a reputation for investing less heavily in computing and being less technologically mature than their U.S. counterparts. Yet technology brings significant business...
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There are two particular articles in this issue to which I would like to draw your attention. The first is the technology test. It presents 50 questions looking at your company’s Green IT, Web presence, Security, Agility, and Communications and...
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Tech and gears are an excellent combination and what better time to splurge than the holiday season? And by splurge we don’t mean $50 seat covers. We’re talking about the good stuff. Of course we couldn’t put together a wish list if it didn’t have...
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If, at the end of the day, you’re so sick of workplace clichés that you just want to reach out and throttle a co-worker, a recent study from Accountemps is for you. “Business communication should be clear, straightforward and devoid of industry...
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Want to hear some scary stats? No, probably not, but it’s important. Every three and a half minutes a crime is committed on the streets of New York City. In Tokyo it’s every two and half minutes. But every three seconds an identity is stolen online,...
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Social media is often where we make our first impressions, according to Canadian Randall Craig, author of Personal Balance Sheet. He advises that people take the time to tune up their online presence. His advice:
Remove risky content: It’s...
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Eight per cent of Ontario drivers intend to ignore the recently passed legislation banning the use of hand-held devices while driving, according to an Angus Reid poll. However, 90 per cent are in favour of the legislation and look down on those...
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Companies spend one to three per cent of revenues on printing every year, according to Gartner. HP offers the following advice to cut print costs:
- scan documents and digitally send them to e-mail or network folders,
- print on both
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The overall Canadian client PC market (including desktop and portable PCs, but excluding x86 servers) declined in the second quarter, down 14.6 per cent over the same period last year, according to IDC Canada. On the upside, demand for netbooks...
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Sept. 2 was the 40th anniversary of the Internet. To commemorate, Symantec compiled a list of the 10 worst online threats ever.
1. I Love You (2000) Everyone wanted to open an e-mail with “I Love You” in the subject line. Clever, those...
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Nortel is the pariah of Canadian business. A combination of investment losses by hundreds of thousands of retail investors, years of mismanagement and countless restructurings have drained the storehouse of goodwill that corporations accumulate...
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Conferencing solutions have been available to businesses for almost three decades, but until recently adoption has been slow, primarily because the technology was expensive and sometimes hard to use, and also because it was accepted practice to buy...
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Influential people gathered this year to ignite our national digital economy strategy. They made plans and promises, but some onlookers pointed out this has all been discussed before. What may be different this time, however, is a greater impetus for...
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The big telcos built fast fibre networks, and they want to block competitors from using them. The smaller players are crying foul, warning of a re-monopolization of the industry. The CRTC sided with the big boys, but a new coalition is fighting back....
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“Risk,” James T. Kirk once said, “risk... is our business.” But it doesn’t seem like many corporate chiefs have grasped that wisdom. True innovation, like the iPhone or the Wii, is a rare commodity, and this is probably because stepping outside the...
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As IT security threats evolve and become more severe, so too must the security solutions implemented by organizations and enterprises. “These days, the threats impacting large organizations, in particular, stem from macro effects such as...
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