(17-Feb-11) While a cyber attack similar to the one that compromised three key federal departments will almost certainly happen again, the damage can be limited if the government acts to break down technology silos and implement selective...

(19-Jul-10) For Canadian movie and TV lovers, there will soon be a new way to watch their favourite flick on demand. U.S.-based Netflix announced Monday it would launch a Canadian service this fall that delivers these shows via the Internet...

(19-Jul-10) U.S. online video giant Netflix, Inc., is launching a subscription service in Canada to stream movies and TV episodes over the internet to customers' TVs and computers. Canadian customers will pay a monthly fee to get unlimited...

London, ON - June 17th , 2010 – After a four month coast to coast search, The Quest for Canada’s Smartest IT announced the winners of Smartest and Greenest IT departments in Canada at a gala event in Toronto last night. Info-Tech Research...

London, ON – April 14th, 2010 - Info-Tech Research Group has been recognized for the third year as one of the Best Workplaces in Canada. This list, and related stories, appeared in a special national report on Tuesday April13th, 2010 in The...

(10-Mar-10) Phaeton Automotive Group got its start in 1993 with two locations in London, Ontario. Today, Phaeton has grown to have over 350 employees working out of seven sales and service locations in London, Richmond Hill and Thornhill,...

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A number of legislative issues can pose a liability to organizations that fail to properly dispose of obsolete computers and other electronic equipment. Use this document to gain a better understanding of what environmental laws have passed and...

(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...

(9-Feb-10) SAS Canada is adding roughly 20 new positions, mostly in sales, to offices across the country. Approximately one third of the positions are based out of the company's headquarters in Toronto. Opportunities are also available in...

(8-Feb-10) Acumatica entered the Canadian ERP marketplace last week with a Web-based ERP solution that can be deployed on internal or external clouds through traditional software licensing or software-as-a-service (SaaS) models. A Washington,...

London, ON – January 25th, 2010 – Info-Tech Research Group has launched a nationwide contest to recognize and reward both Canada’s smartest and greenest mid-market IT departments. ”In the true spirit of community, we’re issuing a challenge to...

25-Jan-10 Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT) has alleged Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion Ltd. (TSE:RIM) is infringing on its patents and is asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to stop RIM from selling certain BlackBerry products in the...

(12-Jan-10) PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada has purchased MTS Allstream Inc.’s non-telecom IT consulting business in a move aimed at rebuilding its IT consulting business. In addition to a slew of client contracts, the acquisition will...

(18-Jan-09) EBay announced on Nov. 19 that it had finally completed the sale of a majority stake in Skype Technologies to a group of investors, including the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. While the sale was a struggle — Skype's founders...

Health Canada has announced that Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software vendors must meet International Organization for Standardization (ISO) requirements for Class II medical devices by 2010. Learn what this means for healthcare...

(21-Oct-09) At the Windows 7 launch event in Toronto this morning Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged the availability of Windows 7 is significant, at least in part because Vista was not warmly received. Ballmer used choice words to...

(16-Oct-09) YouTube, LLC reaches a greater percentage of the Canadian population than the U.S., the U.K. and Germany, but Canadian businesses aren’t taking advantage of its reach. According to numbers released by ComScore Inc. this spring,...

6-Oct-09 Nortel Networks Corp. is in talks to sell almost all of its optical networking and ethernet assets to Maryland's Ciena Corp., the two companies said Monday. The announcement could mark one of the final stages in the dismantling of...

25-Sep-09 Industry Canada announced Thursday it will only allow Avaya Inc. to buy Nortel Networks Corp.'s enterprise business if Avaya can prove the US$915 million deal is beneficial to Canadians. Industry Minister Tony Clement announced the...

A new survey from Sapphire Technologies and IBM on hiring intentions in the Canadian IT sector reports a very positive outlook ahead, with 87 per cent of senior-level executives planning to maintain or increase staff. But an Info-Tech analyst...

(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.

(IT World Canada) - Research in Motion alleges it was unfairly blocked from making a bid for Nortel Networks CDMA and Long Term Evolution Access businesses Research in Motion is calling on the federal government to review the auction of Nortel...

(IT World Canada) - The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company's planned acquisition of Ibrix Inc. will add storage clustering capabilities to the StorageWorks portfolio, said one analyst. But what of PolyServe, the company in the same space that HP...

(IT World Canada) - Researchers from the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business suggest that virtual competence is a soft skill managers should be encouraging in their staff. Why IT professionals would have higher...

(Network World) - Symantec Corp. has released the results of its fifth annual Global IT Disaster Recovery survey. According to the report, 93 per cent of organizations have had to execute their disaster recovery plans and the average cost of...

Recent wireless spectrum auctions in the US and Canada drew considerable attention as both had rules aimed at fostering more open networks and increased competition. In both cases the result could be greater choice for wireless subscribers. Be...