Albert Leonardo

An announcement made on Thursday will bring Canada and the U.S. closer

The demand for Web services may not be surging as of yet, but Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. and Burntsand Inc. on Tuesday announced they have formed an alliance to offer products in that space.

The demand for Web services may not be surging as of yet, but Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. and Burntsand Inc. on Tuesday announced they have formed an alliance to offer products in that space.

A deal signed on Thursday between Bell Canada and Lucent Technologies will help the telco expand its digital subscriber lines (DSL), Internet services and wireline networks in Ontario and Quebec, according to the companies.

Numbers released by a Statistics Canada report on Thursday confirm that while most of IT continues to experience losses or no growth, the wireless providers are generating stellar numbers. However, at least one analyst warned not to take the numbers too seriously.

On Tuesday the decision was made by Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion (RIM) Ltd. to challenge a jury verdict that convicted the company of patent infringement back in November of last year.

Canadian popstar Avril Lavigne is just the latest in a growing list of celebrities that virus writers have chosen to use to mask their handy work.

The chances of finding a domain name in the language of a user