Greg Enright

Visitors to a conference centre in Kingston, Ont. are getting a taste of how to order a soda pop the futuristic way, thanks to a new, wirelessly enabled vending machine. Guests at the Ambassador Conference Resort were able to try out the drink dispenser as part of a trial of wireless vending technology from Bell Canada. Users can order their favourite beverages simply by swiping their hotel room key card through the machine

Last month, representatives from the world-famous CERN laboratory in Geneva announced its massive grid computing project now stretches across 100 servers and 31 countries, including Canada.

Canadian retailers

SaskTel business customers whose employees use multiple IT applications to perform their jobs will hopefully be able to make those jobs easier with a new collaboration offering from the service provider. SaskTel

Canadian telecommunications firm Telus on Thursday announced the inking of a deal with Vancouver-based resort operator Intrawest Corp. that will see the deployment of Internet Protocol- (IP) based infrastructures in resorts across Canada. Included in that list are such notable properties as Whistler Blackcomb and Panorama Village in B.C., Tremblant in Quebec and Blue Mountain Resort in Ontario.

After nearly five years as an editor in this little corner of the technology world, it

SaskTel International Consulting Inc. will be expanding into an area of the world that really needs its expertise. The SaskTel subsidiary has signed an agreement Datec Group Ltd., a foreign services firm, to offer telecom services to countries in the Australasia and South Pacific regions. Datec already offers IT services to organizations in the area. Headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan, SaskTel International, provides engineering consulting, project management, and software solutions around the world.

Cisco Systems Inc. released ten security products at the annual RSA Conference last month aimed at extending the firm