(26-Feb-10) The planned acquisition of Nstein Technologies Inc. will give Open Text Corp. semantec analytics technologies and a valuable customer base, both of which are quite compelling to the Waterloo, Ont.-based company, said one analyst....

(11-Feb-10) Nortel Networks Corp. has said Thursday it has raised $2 billion from selling business units to other vendors and is still figuring out what do to with its numerous patents. “My feeling is that that the value of their patents...

(26-Nov-09) The Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says the global economy is showing definite signs of recovery, visible in all seven major economies, including France and Italy, as well as China, India and Russia. And...

At the annual Cisco Collaboration Analyst and Consultant Summit in San Francisco, the vendor announced 61 new products and shared an ambitious vision for enterprise collaboration. Although this market is still in its infancy, Cisco’s key...

(12-Nov-09) Info-Tech Research Group has expanded its social media footprint with a new YouTube channel. The company YouTube channel delivers short video segments featuring lead analysts discussing hot topics and industry research. The latest...

28-Sep-09 It can be a juggling act to curb unnecessary costs on additional software licences while ensuring there are enough licences for all users. IT departments will often procure more seats than they actually require so users don't run...

(27-Aug-09) Recently we have reported on data center containers along with infrastructure containers which compliment the boxed IT solution. The question that we occasionally receive from our readers is who are these units being sold to, how...

An appropriate description of requirements is essential to the successful deployment of a new application function, whether purchased or developed. Too often, we get the requirements wrong, and as a result, we fail to satisfy our internal and...

(30-Jul-09) Consumers have almost non-stop appetites for watching video on the Internet, a habit that bidders for financially troubled Nortel Networks will consider when they look at its technology for bandwidth hunger. A key unit of Nortel...

(IT Business) - According to one Canadian IT consultancy firm and an analyst, when it comes to securing business networks and infrastructures, the channel can help customers be more secure by following four easy steps.

(Information Exec) - Now that Microsoft Corp. has announced a free, on-demand version of its Office applications, techies are talking about what it all means for the battle for PC dominance brewing between Microsoft and Google Inc. But according...

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