IT Focus Staff

Multi-currency payment processor WorldPay Ltd. in July announced the launch of an e-commerce product said to take the burden of managing anti-fraud protection away from the retailer.

Siemens Milltronics Process Instruments Inc. of Peterborough, Ont., in May introduced Levelwatch.com, a service said to unlock the data at remote sites and distribute the information to the people who can use it for business decisions.

At its Connect 2002 Americas user conference in New Orleans in August, PeopleSoft Inc. unleashed a flurry of announcements targeting security, corporate accountability and real-time automation.

Ferrero Rocher, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Italian-based confectionary company Ferrero International, has 220 corporate customers with names like WalMart, Shoppers Drug Mart and Zellers gracing their client roster.

It sounds overwhelmingly daunting to have to keep your catalogue current and manageable when you provide 75,000 items, ranging from groceries to petroleum and general merchandise to crop supplies, to about 1800 retail outlets in more than 500 communities in Western Canada! Saskatoon-based Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), the central wholesale organization for more than 300 retail co-operatives from Manitoba to B.C., faces that exact challenge.

The percentage of Canadians who bank primarily through the Internet has doubled in the past two years but it is still low, according to a new poll by the Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) and announced in July.

Statistics Canada revealed in June that all sectors of manufacturing registered gains in April, with

Software bugs are costing the U.S. automotive and aerospace industries an estimated US$1.8 billion a year and the overall U.S. economy about US$59.5 billion annually, according to a new study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST is a U.S. federal agency that conducts extensive research on technology issues.