Welcome to our sixth-annual presentation of the Branham300, Canada’s premiere listing of high-flying tech companies.
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Last year was a tough one, but it capped a successful run for the ICT sector. The geographical breakdown of the Top 250 listing remained relatively static in 2009. Ontario, which experienced the largest increase in representation among Canadian...
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Welcome to our sixth-annual presentation of the Branham300, Canada’s premiere listing of high-flying tech companies. The results, it has to be said, are not entirely positive. Even a list that concentrates on the best and most profitable cannot...
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Hands-free driving laws have been sweeping across the nation, but most news reports warn only about using cellphones while behind the wheel. The legislation, however, also covers GPS units, iPods and other portable media players. While several...
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Apple unveiled its iPad slate computer on Jan. 27. That same day, IDC came out with a bold prediction; the company will sell four million worldwide in 2010 alone. Reviews have been mixed, with many observers critical of the iPad’s prices. IDC,...
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With all the Apple iPad hype, it is heartening that politics still draws a bigger crowd. At the height of each event, Obama’s State of the Union speech generated 9,000 tweets per minute vs. 7,000 per minute during the iPad launch, according to...
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Good news for tech types: 37 per cent of Canadian chief information officers (CIOs) report their IT departments are understaffed. Staffing firm Robert Half Technology asked CIOs “How would you describe the staffing level of your IT department...
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Toyota had a bad January: it had to stall the assembly lines that churned out its most popular cars and recall millions of vehicles already on the road. But January also brought at least some good news for Toyota: consumers think of it, along with...
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Online criminals are increasingly targeting critical infrastructure systems, according to a report McAfee presented at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in January. Electrical grids, oil and gas production facilities, and telecommunications and...
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Laptop sales surpassed desktop shipments in the U.S. in 2005, according to Current Analysis, and worldwide in 2008, according to iSuppli. This makes computing more ubiquitous than ever before, but with enhanced portability comes increased risk of...
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Meet newly minted university graduate, Karen. She’s an honours student from a fine business school whose second major was sociology. She wants a career path in marketing and she volunteers at the local women’s shelter. All in all, a fine...
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Canada is hockey, maple syrup, Mounties in red tunics, beavers, polar bears, golden wheat fields, snow-capped mountains, thundering rivers, shimmering lakes and the craggy rocks of our shorelines. And now data centres. Demand for data storage, and by...
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If you worry you don’t have the know-how and background to make smart decisions around technology purchases, suppliers say you aren’t alone—and that it’s okay if you’re no expert. Suppliers, both full-service solution...
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On the field of business, the battle is more than half won through knowledge: knowledge of customers, retail locations, suppliers, inventory and how they all relate to one another. Business decisions can’t be made by throwing darts at maps....
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Picture this: a man walks into a store; he is alone, appears to be looking for a new pair of shoes and is fancying higher-end dress shoes. In a bricks-and-mortar location, sales representatives can quickly respond based on what they see, adjusting...
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