All Hands on Tech: BlackBerry 10 alpha

If there's one thing Canada's tech industry is looking forward to in 2013, it's BlackBerry 10. Research in Motion's new operating system has been long anticipated. It will signal whether RIM will be

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 12th, 2012 Brian Jackson

3 tips for a successful Windows 8 roll out

Windows 8 hasn’t even been released yet, but with the big day approaching this Friday it’s a good time to think about your business migration strategy.Many businesses have just recently moved to Windows

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 22nd, 2012 Brian Jackson

Windows 8: ultimate guide to Microsoft’s big OS release

Near the end of October, Microsoft Corp. will release Windows 8, its most major update to its flagship operating system product since Windows 7 was released three years ago. A New York-based event

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 5th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Windows 8 released to manufacturers

Microsoft Corp. announced today that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM), hitting another milestone in the development of its flagship operating system.The RTM phase means Microsoft has finished polishing the OS

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 1st, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

Over 900,000 Android OS devices activated daily, Google says

Android continues to grow, with over 900,000 devices based on the OS now being activated every day, according to Andy Rubin, who heads up development of the smartphone operating system at Google.That figure

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 11th, 2012

Windows 8 to automatically detect boot problems

Microsoft yesterday promised that a feature it's added to Windows 8 will put a stop to endless reboots.Unlike earlier versions, Windows 8 will automatically call up a new menu with repair and recovery

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 23rd, 2012 Gregg Keizer

Why Windows 8 offers better security for startups

When Windows 8 comes out later this year, the new Start screen and Metro-style apps will likely be the first changes you'll notice, but those aren't the only things that are new. Microsoft

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 18th, 2012 Eric Geier

Apple updates Mac OSX Lion to 10.7.4

Apple yesterday patched 36 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, plugging a hole that revealed passwords used to encrypt folders with an older version of FileVault.p>Both Mac OS X 10.7,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 10th, 2012 Computerworld Staff

Windows 8 Preview beats Windows 7 in performance tests

Windows 8‘s Metro interface may be controversial, but it looks like few PC users will complain about the new operating system’s performance. Our PCWorld Lab put the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 through

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 23rd, 2012 Nate Ralph

A fresh update for LibreOffice

Just a month after the release of LibreOffice 3.5, the Document Foundation on Thursday announced an update to the software that's designed to increase the stability and security of the free office productivity

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 16th, 2012 Katherine Noyes

Run Windows Software on Linux with Wine 1.4

As free and open source software continues to become more powerful and more prevalent, there's less and less need to choose anything else. It's not at all surprising, for example, to see the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 8th, 2012 Katherine Noyes

iOS 5.1 hack in three simple steps

Editor's note: The exploit described in this story and featured in the YouTube video has since been revealed as a fake. There is no security risk as described below. ITBusiness.ca regrets the error.The

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 8th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

‘Key Lime Pie’ to be next Android OS: reports

Google Inc. has chosen the codename Key Lime Pie for the version of its Android operating system slated to follow Jelly Bean, new reports suggest today.The name, according to a story by CNET,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 5th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

$25-Raspberry Pi school computer to run cut-down Fedora

Early adopters of the Raspberry Pi $25 computer will be offered a cut down and customised Fedora 'remix' compiled to run on the system's ARM microprocessor, it has been confirmed. The first Raspberry

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 24th, 2012 John E. Dunn