Infrastructure

In order to make accessing government services more convenient for Kenora, Ont. area residents, the Lake of the Woods Business Incentive Corp. (LOWBIC), along with the City of Kenora and Imex Systems Inc., recently agreed to work together to deploy a new Web service.

Juniper Networks Inc. next week will announce the J-Series of enterprise access routers, otherwise known by the code name "Pepsi," according to sources. ...

Dell Inc. is giving its four-way Itanium server a second chance. A year and a half after ceasing shipments of its PowerEdge 7150

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) unveiled several new products and partners last week in a move intended to help bring rich digital color into consumers' photographs and small businesses' marketing materials at a lower cost.

Microsoft Corp. in August plans to add features to its CRM software that are designed to offer users tighter integration with Office 2003.

When the economy surged in the late 1990s, office furniture maker Haworth Inc. rode the wave. A booming demand for new office space plus several acquisitions propelled the 52-year-old company to US$2 billion in sales in 2002, making it the world's second-largest designer and manufacturer of office furniture.

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) said it will recover by Thursday from a processing glitch it discovered during a routine programming update to one of its computer systems. However, on Friday reports indicate that accounts may not be fully up to date until the weekend.

Perspectives on technology trends such as service-oriented architectures (SOAs), Indian outsourcing, and e-mail management were the focus of the day at the Enterprise Outlook private equity conference in San Carlos, Calif., on Wednesday. Featured were executives from Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., and BEA Systems Inc., as well as venture capitalists.