Shane Schick

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Articles by Shane Schick

Ring the bell, sucker, school’s back in!

In today's Daily IT Wire we have a story about McMaster University and Mohawk College offering courses for technology professionals that will teach them...

Intel open source project to boost multi-core apps

Creating parallelism in software isn't easy to do today, but the chipmaker hopes a tool for C++ programmers will generate more business for its latest CPUs. A University of Waterloo prof offers a primer in concurrency

Why wasn’t I invited to the SourceForge party?

I've been writing about open source for long enough (10 years next year) that you'd think the people at SourceForge would have put me...

Don’t tell RIM the 8820 is an at-risk device

Last week we published a story on ITWorldCanada.com about RIM's latest dual-mode device and as usual, RIM was pretty silent about it, other than...

It takes courage to admit your product is insecure

Kudos to Mozzila's chief security officer, Window Snyder (yes, that's his real name), who wrote on this blog recently that Firefox was at least...

Streets – and data centres – of San Fran go dark

A power outage that hit San Francisco last night has also underscored the vulnerability of IT equipment associated with some of the world's largest...

HP still has a lot of catching up to do

Even after spending more than US$1 billion on Opsware, HP is nowhere near the software provider IBM is. And that's not likely to change...

Oh, to be a Big Blue intern . . .

I got a pitch today from IBM, seeing if we were interested in writing about its Extreme Blue program for post-secondary students with great...

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