As an assistant editor at IT World Canada, Jeff Jedras contributes primarily to CDN and ITBusiness.ca, covering the reseller channel and the small and medium-sized business space.
He began his career in technology journalism in the late 1990s, covering the booming (and later busting) Ottawa technology sector for Silicon Valley North and the Ottawa Business Journal, as well as everything from municipal politics to real estate.
He later covered the technology scene in Vancouver before joining IT World Canada in Toronto in 2005, covering enterprise IT for ComputerWorld Canada. His writing has appeared in the Vancouver Sun, the Ottawa Citizen and a wide range of industry trade publications.
After using a range of unintegrated offerings to run its own digital project management and development solutions business, Toronto’s Hardboot decided to write its own project management suite to help its staff manage
Adzuna, a UK-based startup that has developed a job search engine that incorporates social search, has launched in Canada. Now live is Adzuna.ca, which claims to have over 75,000 live job vacancies in
Kanata, Ont.-based Fusebill, a developer of automated payment and billing solutions, has closed a $2 million Series A financing round led by Omers Ventures and Covington Capital. "Fusebill provides our customers a simple
Printer vendor Memjet has brought its C6010 office color printer line, which offers edge-to-edge, full-coverage color printouts, to Canada. The C6010 prints at a default of 60 pages per minute, which Memjet claims
When Microsoft Corp. launched Windows 8, its redesigned operating system for a mobile-first, touch-enabled world, one change immediately caught desktop and laptop users by surprise, and raised the ire of some: the absence
More ammunition for the “PC survives” side of the “PC, dead or not?” debate, as a report from market research firm The NPD Group indicates tablets are supplementing, not replacing, traditional laptop and
The latest Internet Security Threat Report from security vendor Symantec Corp. has a warning for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) – you’re in the sites of hackers as the weak point in the
Kobo is launching its limited-edition, 6.8” Kobo Aura HD E Ink eReader. With what Kobo is calling a “book-inspired design,” it’s available in Ivory, Espresso and Onyx for $169.99 "From the beginning, Kobo
Want to deposit a cheque using your smartphone? Well, there’s an app for that. As long as you’re a credit union customer, that is. Central 1 Credit Union, the central financial facility and
Soundstreams, a Toronto-based new music presenter with 30 years of commissions recorded by the CBC, is showcasing its musical history with a new web site and companion iPad app. According to the company,
There are evil doers on the Internet, and they’re after your Bitcoins. Network security vendor Fortinet has released its quarterly threat report for the three months ending March 31, and its top reported
While the economy is turning around, it doesn’t appear that PC shipments are turning around with it. In fact, according to a recent report on worldwide PC shipments from analyst firm Gartner, things
Two Montreal-based Microsoft partners are joining forces, with the announcement this week of the acquisition of AlphaMosaïk by Negotium Technologies. The combined entity, which will carry forward under the Negotium brand with both
Mobile carrier Telus is now accepting pre-orders for the HTC One, the latest Android smartphone from HTC, with a ship date of April 18th. The phone can be pre-ordered for $149 on a
SugarCRM used its annual SugarCon conference in New York City this week to launch a new private cloud offering – Sugar Private Cloud – and preview the next generation of its customer relationship
