Chris Carder well remembers the day he and his business partner Chancellor Crawford pitched Air Canada for the deal that would make or break ThinData Inc. In the wake of the dot-com bust,
Not quite half of Canada's small and medium businesses are – at least knowingly – using cloud computing today. Of those that are, about two-thirds use software as a service products like Salesforce.com
When Danny Wang came to Canada from China in 2000, he soon got a shock. “I learned about English in China for 20 years,” says the co-founder and co-chief executive of Toronto startup
The working day is a little easier this year at Indianica, a Montreal art gallery, thanks to a new cloud-based point-of-sale system.Alex Kiorpelidis,owner of Indianica, which specializes in Inuit art and native crafts,
The period for public comment on Canada's new Anti-Spam and Online Fraud Act recently ended, and the new legislation is expected to become law this fall. It will be among the world's strictest
Under the Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act, private businesses operating in the province will have to meet new accessibility standards for customer service by the beginning of next year. Other standards will
Five years ago Scott and Jamie Burton started Dolphin Digital Technologies with an unusual philosophy. The Kitchener, Ont., company aims to employ people with disabilities. By doing so, the Burtons have built a
Between a quarter and a third of small and medium businesses buy their PCs from retail stores – often big-box retailers like Future Shop, Staples or Best Buy. Should they? The answer according
Roughly half of small- and medium-sized businesses in Canada face flat IT budgets this year, according to a survey that ITBusiness conducted in January, while another 23 per cent will have even less
Got a business question? There are lots of ways to find answers online. So many, in fact, that one of the questions you're scratching your head about might be how to make the
The smart grid – an enhanced electricity delivery system that promises to improve reliability, reduce costs and facilitate the use of alternative energy sources – is in its infancy. But Canadian companies are
Toronto marketing company 80/20 Solutions wanted to control IT costs and improve its ability to add capacity quickly as it signed new clients. So 80/20 moved from operating its own servers in a
After the dot-com bust, Michael Hyatt recalls, the conventional wisdom was that nobody would invest in the Internet any more. He wasn't convinced. “I didn't think people would give up their e-mail addresses,”
In four years as a graduate student at the University of Guelph, Jeremy Friedberg developed a passion for teaching, but also learned how difficult it could be to teach complex biology concepts with
Everyone is talking about those telepresence systems that make a video conference look so real you'd almost think you were in the same room with the people at the other end. Very nice,
