Vanessa Ho

At the heart of Telus Mobility

Late last month, Fusepoint Managed Services Inc. revealed it had completed what the company called

Until recently workers in business campuses had not experienced and profited from wireless voice and data connectivity integrated on a single device. Now Avaya Inc. and Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion (RIM) have joined forces to offer just that.

David MacMillan, manager of office network services for Toronto-based Shoppers Drug Mart Corp., oversees 65 Windows servers, 1,400 desktops and 350 laptops. All are spread across data centres in Toronto as well as nine regional offices and three distribution centres around Canada. Updating all those machines was something of a nightmare.

What worries Linda Weaver, chief technology officer, Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA), about Voice over IP (VoIP) is not the technology itself but the stresses and strain it puts on a network infrastructure.

During last month

Most attacks on corporate networks

Through its Live Meeting 2005 offering, Microsoft has come up with some new enhancements that will aim to improve the Web conferencing experience. Microsoft and Bell Canada announced they have formed a partnership to integrate Bell's audio conferencing service into Microsoft Office's Live Meeting 2005.