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
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
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
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