Shane Schick

Palm has launched a device it described as a companion to its Treo smartphone that looks like a small laptop and will assist users with data input.

Canadian or even multinational enterprises that want to centralize their IT operations are likely to choose Toronto as their central hub, according to a study released Monday to support the city

Info-Tech Research has projected an increase in Canadian IT spending that was slightly higher than that forecast by rival IDC Canada earlier this year. Server, storage and software investments will drive an overall jump of about 5.5 per cent in Canada this year, according to London, Ont.-based Info-Tech.

Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and author of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, was in Toronto last month to discuss some of the research for his book and to provide some insights about how business intelligence tools can help IT departments. His overview included case studies of Las Vegas hotel and casino operator Harrah

The news looked pretty good, at first.

Montreal

A company whose name many IT managers might still not know is quietly gobbling up enough business software firms to seriously challenge SAP and Oracle, and a Canadian acquisition may add to its arsenal.

Browsers were just the beginning. New software tools could make the desktop a lot more interesting