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A 10-day patch: I triple-dare you

Although officials were quick to dismiss the idea, I loved the image of Mozilla executives discussing their strategy to patch Firefox flaws during a...

TSX prepares for algorithmic trading

As the financial services market moves from manual processes to automated orders, the Toronto Stock Exchange goes through a major IT overhaul. The new CIO walks us through the project

Mac Office attack will have to wait

It would be easy to shrugg off Microsoft's decision this week to delay the release of Mac Office 2008 until January. After all, what's...

Do not let your users anywhere near this Web site

Just what the industry needs: a sounding board for common technical support frustrations. A U.S. online PC service firm called PlumChoice has launched a...

SAP

The German software firm is responding to customers who complain about having to make major ERP overhauls by offering new features on a piece-by-piece basis. A Toronto consultant discusses the local market needs.

Users taking the measure of SAP

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In the enterprise, a zero-day can happen any day

Mari-Len covered a report yesterday that showed zero-day attacks are the No. 1 security concern among IT professionals. I wondered afterwards if that was...

Microsoft an open source company? Pul-leeze

I'm never sure whether to take seriously Microsoft's efforts to ingratiate itself (if that's what you want to call it) to the open source...

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