Briony Smith

Articles by Briony Smith

eBay lays off 1,000 workers

Internet giant eBay bid responsibly: in order to afford its purchaseof online shopping credit vendor Bill Me Later, it laid off 1,000workers, comprising 10 per cent...

Sitemasher to reduce developers’ cutting, pasting

A Vancouver startup launches a hosted offering that simplify the work that goes into designing Web sites and content management systems. It's also putting its money where the cloud is

Will Chrome shine for CIOs?

IT industry pundits weigh in on Google's open-source browser Chrome and its appeal to CIOs.

Waterloo probes wireless standards interoperability

Federal and provincial grants totalling nearly half a million dollars will help a professor discover ways to get CDMA, GSM and WiMAX to work better together. Plus: The power of

Generation Y wants Google and Apple

Toronto-based research firm DECODE released last week the results of a survey of 27,000 university students that revealed a good chunk of them may...

IBM launches High School Technology Program in Kanata

IBM announced last week a pilot project that will expose high school students to IT industry career options.The project is being run in partnership...

5 steps to a stronger, better Canadian IT sector

We don't even rank in the top five tech-savvy nations, but many IT managers may not realize why they should care. Analysts and local entrepreneurs make their case. Plus: Choose a prime minister who will jeep the industry thriving

Tracking pandemics the new-school way

The school plans to use software as a service to automatically phone 1,000 students asking them questions to figure out whether they are sick. A student talks about the drawbacks of the current systems

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