Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. Don Tapscott, Canadian cyber-guru and author of such books as Growing Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Our World, has backed up his speeches predicting a booming wireless world by becoming chairman of a company in Toronto selling location-based services for cell phone and PDA, as well as wireline, users.
When the United Way of Greater Toronto decided last year, in the midst of a record breaking fundraising campaign, that its operations needed to become more efficient and modern, the board of directors could not have envisioned the speed at which the charitable organization would ramp up to the information highway.
IBM Canada Ltd. of Markham, Ont. has introduced two new additions to its Netfinity line of thin rack-mountable servers in an effort to capture more of the growing service provider and mid-market customer base.