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Jan 03, 2012

IT World Canada: Experts divided on 'grey hat' hackers

(3-Jan-2012) As criminal hackers become more sophisticated and ruthless, security-conscious companies are increasingly recruiting people to help fight a covert war. On the front lines of the fight stand many “grey hat” hackers — security experts who have online street smarts but aren’t mixed u...

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Jan 01, 2012

CRM Magazine: Don't Count Out Email Yet

(Jan issue-2012) Email marketing has come a long way from spamming (and irritating) consumers with mass messages that are quickly deleted. Thanks to advances in technology, marketers can target potential customers with email messages that are personalized and trackable. Plus, many email marketing...

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Dec 12, 2011

Financial Post: IT has head in the clouds

(12-Dec-2011) Canada’s government must migrate its multibillion-dollar computing hardware to the cloud, the country’s largest technology industry group warns, or risk becoming “technologically incapacitated. Ottawa spends between $2-billion and $5-billion on technology each year, various estim...

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Dec 02, 2011

IT Business: Android exploits new mobile banking enemy

(2-Dec-2011) With Google Inc.'s Android mobile operating system increasingly finding itself in the sights of malicious software, Canadian banks are facing a new enemy on the mobile frontier. Reports of Android malware have increased sharply in recent months, with Juniper Networks reporting tha...

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Nov 17, 2011

ComputerWorld: OpenFlow not the only path to network revolution

(17-Nov-2011) APIs and messaging protocols, including some that are standards, can let users build software-defined networks today. The key issue, though, is that not everyone implements the same ones or implements them the same way. Will OpenFlow get us all on the same path to SDN nirvana? Op...

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Nov 14, 2011

DC Velocity: Software that eases DC labour pains.

(14-Nov-2011) This time of year, distribution center managers often find themselves bringing in temporary workers by the dozen to meet peak season order fulfillment demands. Although that has the potential to be a headache and a half, there's a way to minimize the hassles: by using workforce mana...

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Nov 09, 2011

IT World Canada: Canadian Security companies 'overconfident' in data security: study

If you ask Websense Inc. whether most Canadian companies are as secure as they think they are, the answer is a resounding no. According to a study commissioned by the San Diego, Calif.-based software firm, the vast majority of those interviewed as being confident in their security policy and tech...

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Nov 02, 2011

IT World Canada: Businesses need to prep for connected grads: Cisco study

(2-Nov-2011) In the second phase of Cisco’s Connected World Technology Report, the findings suggest that businesses will need to accommodate the needs of the modern employee, and not the other way around The three-pronged, 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report, commissioned by Cisco Sys...

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Oct 19, 2011

Backbone Magazine: Google's 14 year run has been nothing short of astounding. Where does it go next?

In November 2009, Ben Tseitlin thought he’d seen a strange new wind-powered Prius cruising down a California highway. The car had a spinning attachment bolted onto its roof. He posted the sighting on Facebook and thought little more of it. What he’d seen was a self-driving autonomous car. Almost ...

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