Infrastructure

The U.S. government has bought the world

A $48-million project to unite four supercomputing installations at four universities in western Canada has been completed, WestGrid recently announced.

Gateway Inc. on Tuesday made its entrance into the networking equipment market with the launch of nine LAN switches and two wireless access points, however the company is not officially entering the Canadian market with its enterprise products, according to a spokesperson.

A first beta release of the next version of Windows likely will be delayed until next year because Microsoft Corp. is concentrating first on a security-focused update to Windows XP, the Redmond, Wash.-based company said Thursday.

Reaction to Microsoft Corp.'s decision to delay the release of its next-generation SQL Server database and .Net development tools, code-named Yukon and Whidbey respectively, is mixed.

ATM validates bills and recycles cash; Teradata and SAP team up on analytical solutions; Microsoft takes aim at IT complexity

A standards effort that aims to do for business-to-business documents what the Dewey Decimal System does for library collections is gaining momentum.

When Toronto came under the threat of the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus last year, Joanne Pearson had to shut down operations at the...