Patricia Pickett

According to some Canadian channel partners attending Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference this year in Toronto, the software giant is making great strides to help small- and medium-sized businesses deal one of their biggest pain points: integration.

A number of industry experts are suggesting a mixture of education and technology will be necessary in order to combat the growing number of phishing incidents.

Project management is a key discipline in the 21st century, and the IT industry is one of the areas where it comes in most handy, according to Shauneen Furlong.

Although physically securing laptops has traditionally fallen into the realms of locks and cables, some vendors are now offering software solutions to help track the growing number of stolen mobile computers

Eight Canadian students are participating this year in IBM Canada's top internship program, dubbed Extreme Blue. The program originated in Cambridge, Mass., in 1999 and since then has expanded to 10 other IBM labs worldwide. This is the first year Extreme Blue projects are taking place in Canada.

Adobe Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced document services technologies that will include XML in PDF files. According to the software vendor, the document services, which were largely developed in Adobe

A study released earlier this month by research firm Ipsos-Reid Corp. predicts that the number of companies that outsource key services in 2003 will decrease in 2005, but that the percentage of spending allocated to outsourcing will increase over this period.

Montreal-based outsourcing services provider CGI Group Inc. has inked two 10-year deals with insurance companies in the U.K. and the U.S.