Ryan B. Patrick

An agreement to design a drug discovery and development informatics system was announced Wednesday by Agilent Technologies Inc. and IBM Corp.

The $2.3-million funding partnership announced Wednesday between Microsoft Canada and the University of Waterloo (UW) has the school's student federation feeling

Asante Technologies Inc. recently announced the FriendlyNET VR2004 series of virtual private networks (VPN) security routers, a wired and wireless VPN solution designed for businesses that need complete control over all data within the network. Instead of using dial-up modems to provide remote access to central information, VPN provides a high-speed, low-cost alternative to traditional remote access servers (RAS), according to the San Jose-based company.

The University of Waterloo in Ontario is the first recipient of a fund created by Microsoft Canada aimed at promoting technology initiatives within Canadian universities.

In the latest of a series of moves designed to refocus on its software offerings, Sun Microsystems is expected to announce Tuesday the appointment of former Sun Chief Marketing Officer John Loiacono to a new post managing Sun

EMC Corp. put the mid-market squarely in its sights Monday when it introduced its largest midrange server to date.

Halifax-based Aliant Telecom Mobility is the latest Canadian telecom to throw its hat into the 2.5G wireless ring when it announced Thursday it will launch a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 1XRTT wireless network in early November.

Software developers need to do it more often. In fact, some say they should be thinking about it all the time.