Kathleen Lau

Articles by Kathleen Lau

Videoconferencing to hit critical mass on mobile

Tablets with video calling capability from the likes of Research in Motion, Cisco and Avaya are what will shoot the videoconferencing market to the next level, said ABI Research. The mobile platform issues that could impede this growth

SAP picks Canadian exec to lead North American ops

Recent leadership changes at the software vendor, including one that takes former head of the Canadian office to a broader role as president of SAP North America, is meant to help

AMD extends new Fusion chips to embedded systems

After the chip maker unveiled its long-awaited Fusion line of accelerated processing units, it

Strategies morph from cost-cutting to growth: report

IT spending is on the rise and so is a renewed focus on customers and innovation, finds a new global IBM study. How this mindset shift is reflected in the use of analytics in a business

SocialMiner is a

Cisco Systems showed off the first customer test case using the now generally available social media monitoring and collaboration tool. But an IDC Canada analyst warns it may not be scalable to large enterprises that also have the challenge of integrating tools with existing systems

Microsoft led-consortium filing is ‘political’: expert

A consortium of companies including Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and EMC has withdrawn a filing to buy Novell patents, but one expert thinks it

Black Duck buys Olliance, inherits consulting service

The open source management tools provider can now offer consulting services to enterprises looking to manage open source development. The wrong approach to open source that many enterprises take

ARM-based Windows ‘too little, too late’: Analyst

One analyst thinks Microsoft

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