Briony Smith

Banks and telecommunications providers are hoping to reap major profits from an emerging form of e-commerce, but it won't be easy. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, Bell Canada and TD share their concerns

New release is Unicode- and iPhone-compatible

Ahead of its time or asinine? Computerworld Canada performs a post-mortem on the speedy rise and early demise of Dexit, a pioneering vendor that came up short

A rural Ontario VoIP provider is rolling out a PBX appliance that includes the open source Asterisk software, because it lets users develop applications for their businesses. Find out what an Ottawa vendor offers that Cisco, Avaya and the big boys don

The province of Alberta is using Information Builders' WebFocus to give its call centre workers more information on seniors who ask them for help. Plus: The city of Houston sends data to computer-illiterate cops

By incorporating RStat, Information Builders hopes its business intelligence software will be usable by workers other than data nerds. Find out how analysts and the competition react.

A Canadian developer spearheads a project to create an online repository for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to post information about their fledgling companies. CATA and others applaud a new resource

A Moncton, N.B.-based firm is offering Web-based authentication for Internet transactions, IM and VoIP, though an analyst doubts this would work in a heterogeneous environment. The stumbling block is the participation of banks and credit card issuers.