Info-Tech in the News

(5-Aug-10) For Canadians, the idea of watching television or movies over the Internet has not yet caught on in a big way. And that’s partly because there has so far been relatively little on the Web for us to watch (many popular U.S. sites like Hulu.com are blocked to Canadian surfers to protect ...

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(4-Aug-10) Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, holds the new BlackBerry Torch during a product introduction Tuesday in New York. RESEARCH In Motion officially unveiled its latest smartphone Tuesday, a new touchscreen model with a slide-out keyboard designed...

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(4-Aug-10) High school teacher-in-training Demos Antonopoulos does just about everything over the net, including watching movies, gaming, surfing on his iPhone and downloading music. So you can imagine Antonopoulos’ relief when he learned a recent tweak in Internet offerings by his service pro...

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(30-Jul-10) Do you hate the computer you use for work? Maybe you're a Macintosh fan and your company is wedded to Windows? Wish your employer would let you use your own PC? If so, maybe you should be working at Kraft Foods. Starting in early May — and so far only in its U.S. operations — Kraft...

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(30-Jul-10) It takes the defense industry years to design and build a new tank or jet fighter. But when it comes to cloud computing, the Defense Information Systems Agency has rolled out services faster than most of its civilian counterparts and with a speed that rivals the private sector. DIS...

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(30-Jul-10) A Calgary security company is about to release a 10 Gigabit per second deep content inspection appliance it says is particularly suited for service providers and carriers. Wedge Networks Inc. says its NDP-2080 can handle the needs of the most demanding data centres thanks to its d...

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(22-Jul-10) Skype, which disrupted the telecommunications industry with free or low-cost calls routed over the Internet, is once again an independent company. EBay (EBAY) bought the Estonian startup in 2005, but, after a strained relationship, sold most of its stake for $2 billion in November. No...

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(22-Jul-10) Although there aren't any prevalent security attacks or threat mechanisms associated with smartphones in the market today, security vendors and analysts are urging mobile device users to use security best practices on them, just as they would with their computers. With recent advan...

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(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 to computers and TVs for a monthly fee. The long-a...

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