Kathleen Lau

Articles by Kathleen Lau

City of Mississauga IT staff get trained boot-camp style

The City of Mississauga in Ontario underwent a revamp of its IT processes and environment, including a switch to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 that required a nine-day training course compressed and customized into six. Why boot-camp style training works best in tough economic times

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CA has announced 17 new and updated standardized services as part of its portfolio of implementation services. According to IDC, complex software deployments are best left to a third party

Miami hacker exploited ‘unlimited’ database vulnerabilities

A Toronto-based security expert said a robust application development lifecycle for electronic commerce systems would help ward off often-seen SQL injection attacks. Where the weakness lies in the development process and how that enables hackers to pose as database admins

Retiring baby boomers creating market for process automation?

At a recent event, I sat next to an executive with an application automation technology company who told me that the retiring baby boomers...

Could Google be tricked into talking to botnets?

One security expert thinks search engines like Google could become vehicles for relaying malicious code to botnets every time a particular keyword is entered. And, according to Symantec, Twitter is not any different, as evidenced by the malware it has identified and now calls DownloaderSninfs

Microsoft Windows Marketplace choice apps

We browsed through Windows Mobile 6.1 apps to find out what

BMO gives Wall Street Journal readers 2D barcodes

BMO Capital Markets, the investment and corporate banking arm of BMO Financial Group, are allowing Wall Street Journal smart phone users to access the BMO site through 2D barcodes in ads. One analyst thinks there are other ways to doing this that are cheaper and offer fewer barriers to entry

Enterprises have

A recent survey co-sponsored by Pitney Bowes Business Insight and Silver Creek Systems found that organizations place more focus on the process than the data itself. And, only 37 per cent of respondents have a data quality initiative in place

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