Allison Taylor

The first indication that something had to change at the Centre Hospitalier Pierre-LeGardeur in Quebec was noticed when patients were waiting longer than usual to receive health care.

Self-service kiosks have been around since the mid-1980s and the technology certainly isn't new, but after a previous failed attempt at implementing kiosks, the Hilton Hotel chain has decided to embrace the self-service methodology once again.

In an effort to improve integration with its third-party customers, IBM Corp. unveiled plans on Tuesday to standardize its automated software quality tools from Rational Software on an open source platform called Hyades. The company also revealed a concurrent announcement for a software quality campaign called Continuously Ensure Quality (CEQ).

Compuware Corp. has expanded its development lifecycle and now enables developers to automatically generate unit tests from an application

The Eclipse foundation has named an Ottawa-based former Oracle Corp. executive to be the first executive director of the open source group, effective Tuesday.

Seven software vendors announced on Wednesday plans to team up with IBM Corp. in an effort to prepare their applications for grid computing.

IBM Corp. rolled out a new version of its enterprise software that integrates information from numerous sources by using automated features and search technology.

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