Managed Services & Outsourcing

One of the great ironies of modern business is that while it's only natural for companies to cut back and be cautious during market downturns, these are also the times when the greatest competitive gains are usually made.

Bell Canada has committed $200 million over the next three years to a research and development initiative with Nortel Networks, Aliant Inc., and Bell West to build a converged voice-over-IP (VoIP) and multimedia network for its enterprise customers.

New privacy laws and regulations have many companies worried. Most are responding by writing and posting privacy policies on their web sites, and monitoring emerging privacy regulations.

Late this summer I was in the wilderness of Algonquin Park in Ontario for a week with the only network available being one of rivers, lakes and portages.

To beat the burgeoning illegal trade of card skimming, banks need faster review capabilities of ATMs point-of-sale and remote banking transactions, a Canadian banking executive told an OzTUG (Australian Tandem User Group) conference in Sydney late July.

In the wake of Sobig-F's attack, security experts uniformly credited the worm's sophisticated design for much of its success. However, the sheer magnitude of Sobig's attack led to questions about whether the Internet's current e-mail infrastructure is making things too easy for virus writers and spammers.

Bell Canada has committed $200 million over the next three years to a research and development initiative with Nortel Networks, Aliant Inc., and Bell West to build a converged voice-over-IP (VoIP) and multimedia network for its enterprise customers.

In an ideal world, the first computer user to detect a threat would alert every other user as quickly and completely as possible. In this world, however, computer users may not even know their systems have been compromised until they learn they have infected other machines.