Mari-Len De Guzman

McAfee warns of the increasing malware threat plaguing mobile devices around the world. Why Canada may still not be on mobile hackers

While industry studies and statistics have shown that there is an increasing demand for IT skills, not all IT professionals are convinced that this is the case. "The local K-W Record newspaper ran a story claiming that there were over 2,000 unfilled IT jobs in Waterloo Region, but in the same issue there were absolutely no IT jobs posted in the classified (ads)," notes Jeff Smith, an IT professional currently working for a computer consultancy firm in Waterloo, Ont.

The Ottawa firm will gain a 64-bit, in-memory multidimensional online analytical processing (OLAP) server through its latest acquisition. One analyst says it

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Threats posed by zero-day vulnerabilities were ranked by global IT decision makers as their top security concern, according to a recent survey by security firm PatchLink.

The move towards Web 2.0 technologies may well be another race between functionality and security, and for now at least, security seems to be at the tail end.

The Information and Communications Technology Council hopes its research will provide a framework for IT-related HR strategies. One idea: Re-skilling foreign workers to fill the gaps that are starting to open up