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Yahoo! Microsoft’s actually going for a takeover

Microsoft has been searching for a way to beat Google for a while now,

Cutbacks at Dell Canada span Edmonton to Ottawa

The PC maker announced it will close a call centre in Edmonton, offering its workers other jobs or pink slips. A spokesman says other centres will handle more calls while an analyst suspects the increase in the Canuck dollar was a factor in the cutbacks

Enterprise IT data just needs a good blurb

When Nicholas Carr’s latest book The Big Switch arrived at work today, I felt like I already knew what it was about. I’ve read...

Dell follows Ottawa layoffs by closing Edmonton centre

More than 900 employees will be affected and offered other jobs within Dell or severance and career placement services as the vendor follows up its Ottawa-area layoffs

Kaizen and the art of IT management

I thought I had finally been able to put the nightmare behind me. But then, the other night at a work function, someone brought...

Dell Canada cuts jobs at Ottawa call centre

The company backtracks on plans to double the size of its workforce in Canada's capital city as part of an overall workforce reduction program

Truck leasing firm Empress uses fleet tracking app

Datacom Wireless Corp. will provide 300 units of its VGSM-150i, a theft deterrent, detection and stolen vehicle recovery system

The creative class that runs your data centres

There’s nothing like watching two nearly-naked, muscle-bound bald men coiling around each other’s bodies to get you thinking about how innovative Toronto is.That was...

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