Rosie Lombardi

Derrick Jardine, CIO of Atlantic Health Sciences Corp. (AHSC), needed a painless solution for his connectivity headaches. Physicians with the New Brunswick-based network of 12 hospitals and health centres were clamouring for remote access. Without a secure method, getting laboratory results and other patient information from the hospital meant a delay of up to four days for printouts to be delivered to their home offices, or a drive to the hospital.

Motorola Canada recently instituted a series of information workshops to assist employees struggling to balance their professional and family lives. The program is operated through Parents At Work (PAW), an independent outfit that partners with organizations and experts on the topic of balancing life issues with work ones. The program features practical seminars and sessions on a wide variety of parenting issues, from having a baby to finding a daycare centre to sending your kids off to university.

McAfee Inc. researchers are forecasting a new type of security headache for IT departments to deal with known as SPIT storms. SPIT (spam over Internet telephony) is an emerging threat that will likely materialize within the next year or two, said Jimmy Kuo, fellow for the McAfee Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT).

One of Toronto's oldest hotels has turned to new and innovative technology to enhance customer service. Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is running a pilot project with three wireless self-serve kiosks at Toronto's venerable Fairmont Royal York. Fairmont partnered with IBM to create these kiosks. Big Blue provided the kiosk hardware, middleware, software, application development service, as well as implementation services.

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An "intelligent" e-health portal developed by Toronto-based DataGlider puts systems, rather than doctors, to work in finding the right information needed to treat patients. The portal was one of the products showcased at IS 2005, an annual Canadian conference on Intelligent Systems, recently held in Qu

Eight Canadian companies in various industry sectors have agreed to pay a total of almost $270,000 to settle claims relating to unlicensed copies of software programs installed on their computers. The companies were investigated by the Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft (CAAST), a sister organization to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a watchdog group that represents the world

Sales management is now faster and better for AGF Management Ltd. after the investment management firm deployed a wireless solution for capturing and accessing client data real-time. The application from Waltham, Mass.-based Pyxis Mobile Inc. was recently rolled out to AGF's entire Canadian sales force