Chris Conrath

Articles by Chris Conrath

Dell gains market share in tight economy

A decade and half at the helm of Dell Computer Corp. has taught Michael Dell a thing or two, one of which is never to buy into the notion that something can

Economy 1, Politicians 0

At what resembled an old-fashion pep rally, Microsoft Canada chief Frank Clegg recently told an audience of Canadian business leaders that, although there is much work to be done, the economic direction of Canada is on the right track.

Prepare for disaster

If the tragic events of Sept. 11 taught us anything, it is that most disasters, by their very nature, strike when least expected. But a recent Ernst & Young survey of Canadian executives points to a relative lack of disaster preparedness.

Trying to get wireless to catch fire

Companies are addressing issues of connectivity and application development to get more business users to embrace the wireless world

A renaissance man in these Internet times

Success in business is often rife with serendipity. For Tim Bray, the CEO of Antarcti.ca Systems Inc., the Internet proved to be an opportunity.

New Palm OS to be released this summer

In a move to help enhance its lead position as the operating system of choice in the handheld market, PalmSource Inc. recently announced it would launch OS 5. The operating system is designed specifically to run on ARM-compliant processors.

Rock outlines innovation plan

Federal Minister of Industry Alan Rock, in a speech before the Canadian Chamber of Commerce last month, announced a four-part strategy to help increase Canadian innovation to help meet the demands of the next decade.

The grid is the key

When the Internet and the World Wide Web caught on, well beyond a public curiosity and firmly entrenched as a wave of the future, there was all sorts of speculation about how all of our data would be stored out on the Web. Our documents and information would exist only in cyberspace and the ASP and thin client would rule.

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