Honda Canada breach highlights lax testing, expert says By: Rafael Ruffolo (5/27/2011 4:29:00 PM)
A data breach that potentially impacted 280,000 Honda Canada Inc. customers could have been dealt with more effectively by the automaker, according to a pair of security experts. The automaker posted an alert on its Web site this week revealing a data breach involving the authorized access of custo ...
IBM Watson: from Jeopardy to health care By: Kathleen Lau (5/30/2011 5:14:00 PM)
TORONTO—IBM’s artificial intelligence computer, Watson, may have impressed television audiences on the quiz show Jeopardy in February when it competed and won against two human contestants. But at the eHealth 2011 conference this week, IBM’s chief medical scientist for care ...
Canaccord betting Dell will buy Brocade By: Dave Webb (6/3/2011 3:49:00 PM)
An analyst at global capital markets firm Canaccord Genuity Inc. is predicting that Dell Computer Corp. will buy its way into the networking marketing, and that the smart money is on Brocade Communications Systems Inc.
Paul Mansky wrote in a flash report on Thursday that Dell is moving away from it ...
Samsung demands to see Apple's next iPhone, iPad By: Gregg Keizer (5/31/2011 9:35:00 AM)
In the latest round of an ongoing patent and trademark battle, Samsung on Friday asked a federal judge to make Apple provide the Korean electronics giant with samples of its next-generation iPhone and iPad.
Samsung asked U.S. District Court Judge Koh to force Apple to give it "a sample of the fin ...
E-health raises issues of data management, privacy: panel By: Kathleen Lau (5/26/2011 4:53:00 PM)
TORONTO—Currently, in Canada, 80 per cent of medical images exist in digital form as the health care industry continues to move toward widely implementing electronic medical records. But out of this, arises the challenge of managing this huge amount of digital data from all sources, said a&nbs; ...
4D has platform for building Web-based business apps By: Paul Krill (6/9/2011 6:10:00 PM)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Development tools vendor 4D Inc. will introducing an open source, end-to-end JavaScript platform called Wakanda next week, which is intended to make it easier to build Web-based business applications.Now at a pre-launch stage, Wakanda is billed as a unified environment based o ...
HP's TouchPad tablet coming next month By: Matt Hamblen (6/9/2011 5:47:00 PM)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s TouchPad tablet running WebOS will be available in Canada in mid-July, after a July 1 introduction in the U.S., the company said Thursday.The 16 GB model, which will cost US$499.99, will only have Wi-Fi connectivity. There will also ...
Google, Facebook promise new IPv6 services after trial By: Carolyn Duffy Marsan (6/9/2011 5:35:00 PM)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they will begin permanently supporting this upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol on some of their key websites.
Joined by two content ...
Opinon: Microsoft was 'trounced' in i4i case By: Julie Bort (6/9/2011 3:42:00 PM)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass -- Microsoft Corp. didn't just lose its Supreme Court appeal to overturn its long-running i4i Inc. patent infringement case, it was trounced. The justices voted unanimously in favor of i4i, once again kicking court-based software patent reform in the gut. And yet, there is stil ...
Canada's i4i finally triumphs over Microsoft By: Juan Carlo Perez (6/9/2011 3:31:00 PM)
MIAMI -- The U.S. Supreme Court has given Toronto-based I4I Inc. a US$300 million patent infringement victory over Microsoft Corp. by letting a lower court ruling stand. The legal battle, which started in 2007, has already forced Microsoft to modify certain functionality in its Word application in 2 ...
Honda Canada breach highlights lax testing, expert says By: Rafael Ruffolo (27 May 2011)
A data breach that potentially impacted 280,000 Honda Canada Inc. customers could have been dealt with more effectively by the automaker, according to a pair of security experts. The automaker posted an alert on its Web site this week revealing a data breach involving the authorized access of custo ...
Tech Mahindra opens lab for Cdn wireless carriers By: Howard Solomon (06 Jun 2011)
An Indian-based telecommunications services giant will open a mobility solutions centre in Toronto for wireless carriers this month
“We are entering our 2.0 stage of our relationship with Canada,” said Manish Vyas, vice-president of Tech Mahindra’s North American branch.
T ...
B.C. chocolate maker upgrades Sage ERP for scalability By: Kathleen Lau (01 Jun 2011)
Fraser Valley, B.C.-based chocolate confectionery maker Brookside Foods Ltd. has doubled in revenue the last two years. However, according to its process improvement leader, growth can negatively impact the planning of production and raw materials if badly managed.
“It creates a lot of press ...
World IPv6 Day starts without Bell By: Howard Solomon (07 Jun 2011)
One of the country’s biggest Internet providers to businesses, independent ISPs, governments and consumers isn’t part of a global readiness test for the Ipv6 communications protocol.
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada isn’t participating in World IPv6 Day (which started at 8 p.m. Tuesd ...
Canadian cloud contracts: Liabilities and limitations By: Vawn Himmelsbach (08 Jun 2011)
More companies in Canada are turning to the cloud — or, at least, thinking about it — for flexibility, agility and cost savings. But there is often the perception that using cloud-computing services could compromise corporate and customer data, or may even be against the law.But there ...