Deloitte hit with $30M lawsuit over ERP project By: Jaikumar Vijayan (6/4/2010 11:08:00 AM)
California's Marin County has sued Deloitte Consulting LLP for $30 million over an allegedly botched SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project.
The lawsuit, filed in Marin County Superior Court last Friday, accuses Deloitte of misrepresenting its skills and capabilities when originally pitchin ...
Tim Hortons serves up a cup of sustainability By: Kathleen Lau (6/8/2010 4:44:00 PM)
TORONTO—Tim Hortons Inc. has been executing its commitment to sustainability for 12 months now. The initiative, borne out of investor interest, required a very necessary risk assessment process to really get off the ground, said a company exec.
Assessing risk at the outset entailed in ...
How Apple topped Microsoft By: Jon Brodkin (6/4/2010 11:30:00 AM)
In the past decade, Microsoft has acquired nearly 10 times as many companies as Apple, and spent nearly nine times as many dollars on research and development.
Yet Microsoft's stock price performance has stagnated these last 10 years, while Apple has soared to its current status as the world's most ...
Microsoft officially launches Office Web Apps By: Carrie-Ann Skinner (6/8/2010 10:51:00 AM)
Microsoft Corp. has made its Office Web Apps available to web users today.
Office Web Apps are online versions of Microsoft's most popular office productivity programs which can be accessed via a web browser and an internet connection.
This cloud-based version of Offi ...
Globalive, Telus face off on wireless By: Kathleen Sibley (6/10/2010 9:52:00 AM)
Instead of providing affordable wired broadband services across the entire country, two of the biggest carriers want to put a rocket in your pocket.
“If you are travelling in rural areas where there is no broadband today ... you can use a rocket stick (a plug-in wireless modem) and get decent ...
Acer chooses AMD chips for new netbooks By: Agam Shah (6/18/2010 4:33:00 PM)
Acer Inc. on Friday announced new netbooks based on chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., a win for the chip company's efforts to grab market share from rival Intel.Acer, the world's largest netbook vendor, announced two Aspire One netbooks with AMD's Athlon II Neo K125 processors. The Aspire One ...
Build a better (personal) brand as a CIO By: Vawn Himmelsbach (6/18/2010 4:00:00 PM)
If a colleague were stuck with you at the airport for six hours, would they look forward to spending that time with you? Or would they make an excuse to hide out in the bar until last boarding call?
You don’t have to decide whether or not you want a brand. You already have one, like it ...
Savvis CEO suggests more Toronto investment By: Rafael Ruffolo (6/18/2010 4:07:00 PM)
Savvis Inc. wants to be a “major force” in the Canadian data centre hosting market and will continue to invest in the Greater Toronto Area.
The pledge was made by Savvis CEO Jim Ousley just hours after his company closed its US$121-million acquisition of Toronto-based manag ...
Microsoft eats its own SharePoint 2010: 7 Lessons By: Shane O Neill (6/17/2010 11:22:00 AM)
If Microsoft is going to tell large global enterprises how to roll out a social networking platform, the folks in Redmond sure as heck better do it themselves.
So in the company's tradition of "eating your own dog food" (using your own products in-house), Microsoft has been using SharePoint 2010: M ...
QA jobs morph as agile development gains ground By: Patrick Thibodeau (6/17/2010 11:17:00 AM)
The recession has changed a lot of things about IT, particularly in the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) professionals who have an encyclopedic-like range of skills.
That change is largely due to the increasing adoption of agile software development, which appears to have gained ground during the ...
Android leads growing Linux-based phone market By: Kathleen Lau (16 Jun 2010)
Led by Google Inc.’s Android, Linux-based smart phones will outpace the rate of growth of the overall smart phone market by 2015, according to a new report by ABI Research.
Currently the rate of growth of Linux-based smart phones is 28 per cent, while the total smart phone growth rate ...
Tim Hortons serves up a cup of sustainability By: Kathleen Lau (08 Jun 2010)
TORONTO—Tim Hortons Inc. has been executing its commitment to sustainability for 12 months now. The initiative, borne out of investor interest, required a very necessary risk assessment process to really get off the ground, said a company exec.
Assessing risk at the outset entailed in ...
IT shops compete with public clouds, VMware says By: Rafael Ruffolo (10 Jun 2010)
IT departments must start viewing public cloud services as both a friend and a foe, according to VMware Inc. CEO Paul Maritz.
Speaking at VMware’s annual virtualization forum in Toronto, the virtualization giant’s chief executive gave conference-goers a picture of the data centres of ...
Deloitte hit with $30M lawsuit over ERP project By: Jaikumar Vijayan (04 Jun 2010)
California's Marin County has sued Deloitte Consulting LLP for $30 million over an allegedly botched SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project.
The lawsuit, filed in Marin County Superior Court last Friday, accuses Deloitte of misrepresenting its skills and capabilities when originally pitchin ...
Starbucks to pour unlimited free Wi-Fi here By: Howard Solomon and Brennon Slattery (15 Jun 2010)
Free Wi-Fi hasn’t caught on among Canadian bar and restaurant owners the way it has in the U.S. But it may spread if Starbucks broadens its free wireless Internet access here the way it is about to in the U.S.
Starbucks Canada said Tuesday it is negotiating with BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada t ...
