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Why open source has always deserved a census

Ever since we learned that the Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft doesn’t take into account open source software when it comes up with its...

Rogers integrates IT for voice mail-to-text app

The Canadian wireless carrier forms a partnership with U.K.-based SpinVox that will allow users to treat their audio messages as written documents. IDC looks at the use case scenarios

Outsourcing until there’s no way out

When a friend of mine went on vacation this past summer he gave me the keys to his apartment so I could check in...

SAP invests, partners with Montreal-based Nakisa

The German software giant forms a reseller agreement that will see an ISV's workforce management software integrated with its human capital management product

Some counsel for the Blog Council

The only way the corporations who formed the Blog Council on Monday could have further incensed the blogging community would be to have placed...

Phishing for IT expertise

As soon as I got the e-mail from BMO Financial Group, I knew it couldn’t really be from BMO Financial Group.First of all, although...

All I want for Christmas is a secure automated agent

For the people who love to hate Microsoft, Christmas came early this year.The company was using an automated agent at nothpole.live.com to let kids...

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