Kathleen Lau

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Windows 7 released to manufacturing

Microsoft says the final code has been delivered to partners to build products for a Oct. 22 availability, just in time for the holiday season

What will happen to Nortel-Microsoft UC alliance?

Avaya has made a bid for Nortel

HP to buy Ibrix for scale-out storage

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company

Intel joins IPSO Alliance to promote IP in smart devices

Twelve new companies including Intel and Johnson Controls join the Internet Protocol for Smart Objects (IPSO) Alliance to promote the use of IP to interconnect dissimilar devices like your smoke detector to your gas stove. The convergence of IT and facilities

Waterloo researchers bring Web access to developing regions

Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario released a beta version of an open source technology designed to give developing regions access to the Web for e-mail and for information on agricultural best practices and health care. How this could facilitate rural business process outsourcing

Bullet-point brief: Tim Vincent, IBM Canada DB2 chief architect

Tim Vincent, IBM Fellow and DB2 chief architect for DB2 talks to ComputerWorld Canada about the evolution of DB2, the impact of emerging technologies, the supposed death of databases, and the future of databases. WITH VIDEO

IBM hosts Alberta Waterportal for smart water usage

Armonk, New York-based IBM Corp. has several smart water initiatives on the go, including one with Alberta WaterSmart. It

AMD unveils six-core Istanbul Opteron HE, SE

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker expands its Opteron line with two processors based on its Istanbul core, designed for data centres that are power hungry and those that are power-constrained. One analyst thinks this is just another move in the leap frog game between AMD and Intel

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