Shane Schick

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Blogging Idol winner to be announced Wednesday, June 18

Hi,Those of you waiting to be crowned IT World Canada's first Blogging Idol should be prepared for an announcement tomorrow. Our SEO team is...

There’s nothing ‘stoopid’ about Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr is not so much the IT industry Cassandra as its declinologue. With “IT Doesn’t Matter,” he argued that technology offers businesses no...

Kelowna firm spends $75M on green data centre

A partnership between IBM Canada and RackForce will see an energy-efficient facility built for the customers of gigaCenter Services Corp. Why location matters as much as the technology

What laptop reviews won’t tell you

If the doctor is to be believed, our first child will arrive on time in about two weeks. That means we are officially late...

Websense to take fear out of Facebook, Web 2.0

The company launches a gateway product at InfoSecurity Canada 2008 that is designed to scan sites in real time for potential threats against the enterprise. Among them: iGoogle pages

Memo to StatsCan: Internet use blurs personal/business lines

“An Internet user is someone who used the Internet from any location for personal non-business reasons in the 12 months preceding the survey. A...

Former Homeland Security official warns Canada on cyber risks

Canadian public sector security experts who assume the Americans are on top of potential IT threats may be in for a nasty surprise, a former official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned the InfoSecurity Canada crowd on Wednesday.

The trouble with InfoSecurity 2008 (and events like it)

Can you imagine having a conference intended to represent the Canadian IT security landscape and not have Symantec among the exhibitors? What about Microsoft?...

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