Kathleen Lau

Articles by Kathleen Lau

Supercomputer cooling system enables speed with less cooling costs

Super computer vendor Cray Inc. unveiled a liquid cooling technology it said will allow computers to operate at unprecedented speeds of multiple petaflops, or...

Open source group sues Quebec over MS purchase

The provincial government is making a move towards Vista and a Montreal-based industry association says other alternatives should have been considered. A lawyer looks at software procurement's changing landscape

Software preserves settings across virtualized desktops, ensures compliance

Persystent Technologies released a tool to ease the deployment and maintenance of virtual desktop environments by automatically enforcing the desired state of individual desktops.The...

Image search firms target police, marketing users

Canadian companies in Gatineau and Toronto are using a mix of biometrics and database queries to identify child pornographers and help detect breast cancer. Where their software could wind up next

Web service APIs help B2B marketers integrate tools

A Vienna-based vendor of automated demand generation tools has released Web services application programming interfaces for business-to-business marketing.Organizations can quickly integrate any application, service...

US red flag rules could affect Canadian banks

New regulation requires banks and creditors to identify potential consumer identity theft

Q9 Networks acquired by private equity firm

The Toronto-based managed services player is bought by Abry Partners LLC for $361 million only days after announcing further expansion in Canada. Is the U.S. market next?

Open Text appeals to lawyers with e-mail toolset

The Waterloo-based firm tries to accelerate the drag-and-drop process and reduce duplication of effort among users in legal firms, but Info-Tech identifies a surprise competitor

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