CIO Canada Staff

According to the Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft, Canadians are not only software pirates, we're significantly better at it (maybe 'worse at it' is...

The Hungarian Zafi worm dominated the most recent (June) list of leading viruses, accounting for almost a third of all viruses detected by the...

In a global survey of 439 executives conducted by Accenture, "using IT to reduce costs and create value" was rated the number one future...

It's been one year since a power failure left an estimated 50 million people in Canada and the Northeastern U.S. in the dark. Details...

Helen McDonald has been named Acting CIO for the Government of Canada, following the departure of Michelle d'Auray. Based in Ottawa, her main focus...

The results are in. Over the summer CIO Canada, in conjunction with the University of Victoria

Having trouble making your words make sense to non-techies? You're not alone. According to RHI Consulting, a division of Robert Half International Inc., Canadian CIOs rate "communication" as their number one problem in the workplace. In a survey, entitled Was it something I said?, 44 percent of 270 respondents bemoaned the gap between high-tech jargon and the end user's understanding.

Is the Internet the post-modern equivalent of frat parties, road trips and other distractions for university students? A study out of Rutgers University in New Jersey suggests this is the case. The school discovered that 10 to 15 percent of 570 undergraduates studied have a problem with Web wildness: they spend much more time online than average, miss out on sleep and, ultimately, on classes.