A partnership between Dalhousie University computer science researchers and high-performance computing vendor Liquid Computing Inc. will help both parties learn more about how to do parallel online analytical processing (OLAP) on Liquid's unusual
IT security professionals face a new headache today: Thanks to mobile technology and growing interaction with customers, suppliers and other partners, the enterprise no longer has clear borders. “Your perimeter is dissolving to
With multiple security tools in place, how do you determine what's working and what isn't? How do you justify the expenditure by showing that every tool in your arsenal is doing its job?Of
A layered approach to security can produce information overload headaches. As configured out of the box, many security products generate a number of alerts that can be “a little overwhelming,” Zasada observes. And
Bill Jensen, product marketing manager at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a security software firm with headquarters in Ramat Gan, Israel, and Redwood City, Calif., says security is about protecting not only the
IBM has so far signed up five universities, including the University of Toronto, for its Accessibility Common Courseware Exchange for Software Studies (ACCESS). That program will help the institutions develop and share course
The security guard and the information technology security specialist have a lot in common – and smart businesses are recognizing that fact.Honeywell Inc. and Novell Inc. announced in late April that Honeywell will
The Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC) in Mississauga, Ont., and the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) in Edmonton will collaborate on nanotechnology research projects.The National Research Council and the Alberta government are
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The mobile Internet may finally be poised to take off, and could carry with it the third-generation wireless networks that so far have failed to live up to the early hype. The next
ROME -- Donald Rippert's 13-year-old son asked recently what his father's e-mail address had been when he was 13. Not feeling like trying to explain to his boy that when he was a
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VeriSign Inc., the company responsible for managing the .com and .net domains on the World Wide Web, has announced a three-year project to increase the capacity of its worldwide infrastructure by an order
An IBM-sponsored program to help ensure that computer science graduates learn to design products with disabled people’s needs in mind could mean better product design for everybody. IBM has so far signed up
ITIL is a set of best practices for managing IT operations, developed by the British government's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (now part of the Office of Government Commerce) in the late 1980s.In
