Managed Services & Outsourcing

T-Mobile, a division of Deutsche Telekom AG, - the world's biggest Wi-Fi hotspot owner - has effectively taken over the Austrian wireless market with the purchase of Metronet for an undisclosed sum.

With a series of malevolent events hitting corporate Canada over the past 12 months, from SARS and the massive blackout to attacks from the SoBig and Blaster worms, companies are intensifying their disaster preparedness but finding that a siege mentality often exists between departments.

Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. announced on Monday that it has acquired MIPPS - a wireless Internet service provider (ISP) - for an undisclosed amount of money to expand its wireless Internet offering throughout the greater Toronto area (GTA).

Universal Business Language 1.0, which is intended as a common XML message format for e-commerce, is now available for public implementation testing in a beta format, according to an official of OASIS.

Network Appliance Inc.

Agile development methodologies have attracted a growing number of converts. The discipline of these methodologies is internal, reducing the need for costly externalrn control. Work proceeds in small visible steps, making development responsive to changingrn user needs. And 'Agile' is one of the better ways to retain 'local' development.

While outsourcing IT services to an offshore firm may have seemed a radical concept arn decade ago, it's now becoming a fairly common practice among many large- and medium-sizedrn Canadian IT shops.

Global Data Vaulting Inc., a Toronto-based firm, this week unveiled a managed data back-up service targeted at businesses of all sizes.rn