Dan McLean

There isn't a more searing hot-button issue than security when it comes to business technology.Few topics get as much mass airplay or attention from vendors, customers and the general public. Judging by the noise surrounding IT security, you'd assume that every business in Canada was zealously plugging up the many seeping cracks that seem to form relentlessly within networks, in an effort to fend off viruses, worms, trojans, spam, spyware, phishing scams and an assortment of other bizarrely named intrusions and digital corruptions.

Information technology at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital was in failing health in 2000. To address the issue the hospital's CIO concluded that what might work was computing power purchased as a

It seems everybody's talking about voice over Internet protocol these days.One of the reasons is that talk is cheap when it comes to VoIP -- or at least cheaper. The technology is one that cost-conscious businesses and consumers should be following since, among other things, it can immediately lower the cost of communication services. But it means a whole lot more than cheaper long-distance calls -- VoIP technology is at the forefront of a dynamic evolution in the world of business communications, a move to networks that do it all.

WiFi and cellphones have been the darlings of the wireless stage, but in the coming years they could be sharing the spotlight with a technology called WiMAX.

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WiFi and cell phones have been the darlings of the wireless stage, but in the coming years they could be sharing the spotlight with a technology called WiMAX.

Beware of information technology vendors bearing

Scotiabank desperately needed to break the cycle of its relentless desktop upgrades and refreshes. J.P. Savage, the company