Info-Tech in the News

(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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(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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