IT World Canada Staff

Canadian PC sales are down this quarter from last year, as for the first time ever consumer demand has receded and this is unsettling news for PC vendors, reported IDC Canada this week.

IBM Canada Ltd. and ENGINEERING.com, developer and owner of the ENGINEERING.com business and Internet-based software, announced Wednesday they have reached an agreement for IBM to provide the technology infrastructure needed to service an e-commerce strategy focused on the global engineering community.

It's a fine kettle of fish that Toronto-based Aucxis Corp has found itself in. Aucxis, an e-auction global trading vendor, has undertaken a project with the Electronic Fish Information Centre (EFICE -- pronounced e-fish for all you land lubbers), to help seafood merchants sell their goods to buyers at auction.

Could location-based wireless marketing make your mobile delivery staff more or less efficient? They won't have trouble finding their destinations, but what about their productivity when they receive the message on their cell phones that a hot batch of double chocolate fudge chip cookies are waiting just around the corner and to their left?

Triversity Inc., a Toronto-based software provider delivering integrated multi-channel, customer-centric solutions for the retail industry, in April announced the availability of Transnet 1.0, as a multi-platform file transfer solution connecting retail applications through a secure, seamless communications network.

Compaq Canada Corp. and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) signed a 10-year strategic technology agreement Monday that Compaq said has a potential value of $42 million.

The manufacturing sector projects the greatest demand in the hiring of IT professionals in the second quarter of 2001, according to the Information Technology Hiring Index sponsored by Menlo Park, Calif.-based RHI Consulting.

When classroom settings are a must, SMART Technologies Inc. of Calgary, Alta., supplies nSMART Roomware solutions that include interactive whiteboards, multimedia cabinets, and software that is said to facilitate meeting, teaching and training.