Rebecca Reid

Nortel Networks Inc. on Friday penned a $70 million deal with Microcell Solutions Inc.

It's been a week of contracts and acquisitions for the Montreal-based CGI Group Inc., as the company snagged a big deal with a federal government department and expanded its presence in B.C. with a buy.

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday pulled the lid off of its new, enhanced Services for Unix (SFU) 3.5, which not only boasts new capabilities but is being distributed for free.

In an effort to help its customers conduct trade with large retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Home Depot Inc. and A&P, a Canadian e-commerce company

Poised to grow to US$1.2 billion in 2004 up from US$719 million in 2003, the worldwide market for biometric technology is going to see some major growth through 2008, according to a soon-to-be-released report from the International Biometric Group LLC (IBG).

Veritas Software Corp. on Wednesday agreed to acquire privately-held Ejasent Inc.

While Microsoft Corp. continues to dominate with the database market with its SQL server and Access platforms, use of the open source MySQL database rose by more than 30 per cent in 2003, according to a report released by Evans Data Corporation on Monday.

Although Instant Messaging (IM) can be an extremely convenient way to casually communicate work-related messages, just as often it seems to end up as a comedy of errors: misinterpretations of tone, sending a personal message to the wrong contact and putting up with the terrible nicknames the guy in sales, a.k.a. "Sultan_of_Sales", feels compelled to use.