Shane Schick

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IT outsourcers aren’t sweating stock market crisis

As part of Toronto Tech Week, executives from Bell and Tata Consulting Services discuss how economic uncertainty is affecting their business prospects. Manulife

What we should all learn from Sarah Palin’s e-mail hack

Sarah Palin may seem like the Belinda Stronach of American politics – the conservative who comes out of nowhere and attracts more scrutiny over...

City of Toronto CIO outlines Web 2.0 strategy

David Wallace helps kick off Toronto Tech Week by making himself a case study of a local organization transforming itself through IT. Find out how he

YouTube Fridays: Talk like a (software) pirate

In honour of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I decided to pull up the following clip, which is taken from a 1980s-era show...

Yes! Websense shows security doesn’t have to be a downer

I feel like I should be making fun of it, but there’s something undeniably appealing about Websense’s new branding. Earlier this year, while talking...

HP follows mass layoffs with a software group reorg

I’d love to say that I managed to pry out the secrets of HP’s reorganization through the craftiest subterfuge, but the truth is their...

Why technology failed to prevent the Wall Street meltdown

Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers didn’t need business intelligence software to tell them the U.S. economy was going into the toilet, but I’m sure...

What virtualization will cost you today (and tomorrow)

Virtualization has become this year’s green IT. As VMworld kicks off in Las Vegas this week, I find myself so sick to death of...

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