Project Management

During the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Corp. announced a technology preview kit for Windows CE 5.0, previously code-named Macallan.

BEA Systems Inc. and Cape Clear Software Inc. are boosting service-oriented architectures (SOAs), hoping to ease the creation of enterprise application services.

Rene Hamel, senior manager of corporate investigation services in the computer forensics and business intelligence tools department at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), shares some crime-busting stories from his RCMP and KPMG days.

If hardware vendors take the advice of one industry analyst, the enterprise can expect the likes of Cisco Systems Inc. and Nortel Networks to pay greater attention to individual market segments.

On behalf of the Software Human Research Council (SHRC), IDC Canada Ltd. polled 414 senior IT professionals from across Canada in Q4 2003 regarding the IT skills their organizations needed most. There was a resounding answer

Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates pitched his company's "seamless computing" vision to an audience of software developers on Wednesday.

Representatives from computer industry associations say the federal government has delivered a laudably IT-minded budget, although they add that the feds still have some work ahead to make Canada a truly high-tech friendly place.

Help desk pilot fish is given a new laptop and told get a PCMCIA network card configured for an executive. He struggles for a while to load the drivers in Windows NT 4.0.