Rosie Lombardi

Is censorship on the same moral plane as human rights issues? Should tech companies always comply with the laws of countries in which they operate? Canadian experts share different perspectives on these issues.

Yahoo has released user identities to Chinese authorities that have led to the jailing of dissidents; Google censors results in its China search engine; Microsoft has removed blogs written by Chinese journalists in MSN Spaces; and Cisco helps the Chinese government block access to Web sites by selling it network management gear.

Much like expecting a pediatrician to perform surgery, the chronic inability to align IT to business across industries is a symptom of an IT sub-discipline being asked to the wrong thing, says Peter Thompson in his new book.

CIOs are exhorted to lead their people to that promised land where IT departments are perfectly aligned with business goals. But there is little guidance on how to achieve this laudable goal. The CIO 100 Assembly held this week in Niagara Falls, Ont. was meant to meet this need.

The storyline in the Da Vinci Code may be a flight of religious fancy

Playing "blue pages roulette" will soon be a thing of the past for the town folks of Whitby, Ont. n

MCI Canada Inc. is beefing up its data centre, with the intention of providing Canadian businesses one-stop access to a range of services. Chief among these is a business grade session initiation protocol (SIP)-based IP trunking service that can keep voice communication capabilities active during a disaster.

The town of Whitby recently implemented a geographic information system (GIS)-based customer relationship management (CRM) system to integrate the array of municipal services it offers its citizens.