Chris Conrath

Articles by Chris Conrath

Reading the fine print

It is not that often we sign agreements without reading them. But read a long-winded multi-thousand word software end-user licence agreement? Not a chance.

With the phenomenal growth of the Internet, buying, selling and trading music online was only a matter of time. Two outcomes should have come as no surprise.

The power of XML

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a language like any other. It

Spend wireless budgets wisely: study

A recent Forrester Research Canada Inc. report, Stop Wasting Your Wireless Budgets, found that companies are caught up in the hype and buzz surrounding wireless applications and devices but that they are used, for the most part, solely for personal information management (PIM).

Help deskers send an SOS

During a session at the recent Comdex Canada 2001 in Toronto several IT experts dissected some of the basic problems that are pervasive in the help desk world

Bringing call centres to the multimedia age

Though call centre technology has advanced over the years, only recently has it been that communication integration is capable of responding in a coherent fashion to customer queries across a variety of devices. In the days of yore, text chat was nonexistent, voice mail was responded to with some latency, and e-mail often went to Web masters instead of the help desk.

Will Canada get wired?

In the Canadian media, hackles are often raised when the words

Techies gaze into the crystal ball

For all the hype in the industry, computer technology

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