Info-Tech in the News

(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 video-on-demand starting this fall, Netflix announced ...

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(13-Jul-10) The World Cup final may have elicited the most penalty cards ever issued by a referee in the championship game, but FIFA's 2010 tournament also boasts another record for fouls of a different type. Spammers, phishers, and hackers of every breed attempted to exploit interest in the w...

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As interest in desktop virtualization heats up, so do opportunities for thin clients. Although a customer doesn’t have to be considering a push into desktop virtualization to be a candidate for thin clients, thin-client computing fits hand in glove with desktop virtualization. In such a scenario,...

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(5-Jul-10) EMC's announcement that it plans to shut down Atmos Online for production usage and limit it strictly to a development environment has provided a cautionary note for enterprises looking at cloud services, and for smaller players looking to monetize the cloud. That's the view of Info-Te...

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(1-Jul-10) Info-Tech Research Group deserves kudos for launching a new competition aimed strictly at the often beleaguered IT manager. The London, Ont. research firm recently announced the winners of its first, but not last, Quest for Canada's Smartest IT, a campaign that resulted in 70 nomina...

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(29-Jun-10) Alan Bourassa, CIO of EmpireCLS, a limousine service in Secaucus, N.J., is a man on a tight schedule. He has tied his company's 64 server blades to a three-year replacement cycle, a fast-paced strategy that he feels has become essential in this era of rapid technological change and un...

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(11-Jun-10) You'd have to be downright antisocial not to have noticed the current level of activity in the social software ecosystem. In fact, says Tim Hickernell, lead analyst for Info-Tech Research Group, the marketplace has begun shifting so rapidly that Info-Tech's first-ever Social CRM Lands...

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(9-Jun-10) Matan Armoni didn’t need a prescription to see that visitors to online eyeglass retailer EyeBuyDirect.com were getting fed up and abandoning their shopping carts. Armoni, EyeBuy’s e-commerce director, had a hunch that the problem stemmed from the site’s virtual imaging tool, EyeTry...

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(6-Jun-10) Canada's wireless industry could be lined up for a dose of competitive fervour if Ottawa launches its anticipated loosening of foreign ownership restrictions and throws open the doors to outside investors in the coming months. Analysts widely anticipate that Industry Minister Tony ...

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