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IT World Canada Exclusive: 80-pound external memory drive and 100-Gig NIC

Canadian manufacturer Curtiz Systems Corp. plans to launch a portable storage device designed to alleviate the problem of data leakage due to lost and...

Public Health Agency gets a case of hide-the-bad-IT syndrome

The Canadian Press managed to get a report from last year which reveals the Public Health Agency in charge of dealing with epidemics spent...

Don’t call Michael Geist, unless you want him to tear you a new one

We love Michael Geist, who disguises himself as a professor at the University of Ottawa by day but spend his free time as Captain...

Want to play the Showcase Showdown without turning on the tube?

For more than a generation, The Price is Right was the ideal show for people who did not work during the day and liked...

Top 5 T-shirt ideas for Privacy Commish Jennifer Stoddart

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has given itself another important make-work project -- creating cool T-shirts to hand out at conferences...

No shoes, no shirt, no pants, no PayPal

Let's make one thing perfectly clear: There's a big difference between porn and pictures of ugly naked people. So say the publishers of Going...

Ryerson Facebook flap forces students to abandon homework and use the site for the waste of time it was originally meant to be

So first-year computer engineering student Chris Avenir, who created an online group to cheat (er, discuss school assignments) with his fellow classmates, didn't get...

Life in the Loser’s Quadrant

Some years ago -- I don’t know when and Lord knows I don’t care enough to do the research -- some consultant invented the...

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