Rebel.com, an Ottawa-based networking and hardware company partly owned by Corel Corp., appears to be the latest victim of the tech industry malaise, according to a report published in The Globe & Mail over the weekend.
Canadian executives have such enthusiasm for e-business that neither a disappointing rate of investment returns, nor a dodgy economy has tempered their zeal, a new survey has found.
Although Canadian companies appear to be monitoring the e-mail and Internet use of their employees at an increasing rate, there is not yet any privacy legislation in place that requires employees to be notified, according to a senior official from Ontario
A recently predicted US$150 billion slump in global IT sales, driven by a worse-than-anticipated European economic slowdown, represents only a worst-case scenario and is unlikely to alter earlier projections of solid growth in the Canadian technology sector, according to IDC Canada.