Shane Schick

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Facebook for doctors: CMA fosters online consults

Physicians from acrosss the country will be able to bounce questions off each other using Asklepios, a social networking tool created by the Canadian Medical Association. An pilot user shares his first impressions

What I learned about business process optimization at Woodbine

It sounded like a great IT industry name, but I just couldn’t put my money down on “Redeploy,” one of horses competing at Woodbine...

Afghan-Canadian school sets up virtual desktops

A project in Kandahar started by a Canadian citizen turns to NComputing to make the most of its PC fleet. Plus: The promise of solar-powered IT

YouTube Fridays: Olympics 2008 and the ethics of using IT

The whole question of "Does IT matter" sent shivers down the spines of corporate CIOs, but in athletics there's a tendency to downplay the...

Got Linux? Don’t tell your ISP

An e-mail from a reader: "Often when I have problems with Internet connectivity the same issue keeps cropping up."The issue has been the same...

Why NetFile users can’t resist cheating

Usually the most you can count on getting back from the Canada Revenue Agency is a miserly refund, but the contents of an internal...

At the heart of Intel’s Core i7, some branding issues live on

Long before the iPhone, iTunes or even the iMac, there was the i586. Back in the 1970s, putting an “i” in front of something...

Back door or not, Apple App Store means more work for CIOs

Of course Apple has a back door to its Apps Store. If you’re using an iPhone, it’s Steve Jobs’ world: you’re just computing in...

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