CIO Canada Staff

Five companies heavily involved in supply-chain automation technology teamed together at the recent National Retail Federation show in New York City to put on a series of live demonstrations showing EPC Gen2 standard RFID technology at work.

Innovation will be a top priority for Canadian organizations in 2006, according to IDC Canada

The Information Technology committee of the Ontario Association of School Board Officials is backing an IT professional designation that they believe will protect Ontario residents and the information that IT workers handle electronically.

Following two years of decline, signs are that corporate spending on research and development began to recover in Fiscal 2004, according to Research Infosource Inc., which recently released its Canada

As organizations collect and store more information, data integration is becoming increasingly problematic. Nearly 70 percent of respondents to a recent global survey of IT professional and business users called data integration a high or very high inhibitor of new-application implementation.

Two teams of Carleton University students, thousands of kilometers apart, were linked recently via computer network

The Internet security threat landscape is changing, according to security firm Symantec. Attackers are moving away from large, multipurpose attacks on network perimeters and towards smaller, more focused attacks on client-side targets.

IT and business executives are burdened with the ever-increasing cost of IT without clear evidence of the value derived from it. Traditional performance methods, like ROI, only capture the financial worth of IT projects and systems. But problems emerge when traditional monetary values are used to measure IT value, as information systems often generate intangible benefits. Will the IT black hole ever end?