Stefan Dubowski

Aliant says its unionized employees have agreed to contract terms and will be returning to work on Sept. 20, marking the end of a long and occasionally contentious strike at the Maritime telecommunications service provider.

Cisco Systems Inc. has designed a new router that comes with some erstwhile separate networking functions built in.

It's rare for an IT manager to say an app proved useful even before it was completely installed, but Dick Keifer claims it happened to him.

A trio of high-tech equipment vendors has unveiled a communications platform that, according to the gear-makers, lets users continue phone calls as they cross from cellular into wireless LAN (WLAN) serving areas. But one industry analyst is skeptical of the claim.

When Equitable Life Insurance of Canada switched to a new batch processing system, it needed a new job scheduler to accompany the servers. One company insider says the winning scheduler put user-friendliness at the fore.

TD Bank Financial Group

As outsourcing has become, it also brings certain risks.

A near disaster involving sensitive customer information, an outsource service provider and an eagle-eyed computer reseller caused BMO Financial Group to batten down its data management hatches.