Home ownership can be a chore and a challenge for those with little time, or experience. So this startup is creating Web applications for home owners to be reminded about maintenance issues and
Europe's most-visited museum has tapped software from IBM Corp. and one of its business partners to help keep the Mona Lisa smiling on its wall, IBM announced today.The Louvre Museum in Paris hired
When it comes to lighting everything from chicken coops to hospitals, entrepreneur Sean Murray says that his company's LED systems are the wave of the future.Ottawa-based Arkalumen Inc. was founded three and a
Most PC users know that to speed up an old system, you need to spring for new hardware: RAM, a graphics card, or a CPU. If you're not ready to make an investment
Published on: June 23rd, 2011 Patrick Miller @itbusinessca
From the Web's early days, companies have struggled to make their sites faster, but the problem remains a thorny one, with new challenges emerging regularly as technology advances. Current issues include the rising
Published on: May 12th, 2011 Juan Carlos Perez @itbusinessca
The future of IT for small businesses has to include straightforward pricing and free (or less expensive) support, according to networking solution company, D-Link Systems Inc. A major part of its “superior economic
Published on: April 8th, 2011 Harmeet Singh @itbusinessca
Microsoft will give cloud customers a minimum of 12 months' notice before discontinuing online services, or making any "disruptive" changes or upgrades, in an effort to standardize the support life cycle for cloud-based
Published on: January 28th, 2011 Jon Brodkin @itbusinessca
What's the most underused productivity tool in your home or office? Your printer. Confined within that unassuming box, however, is a lot of power--far more than you might imagine.We've assembled ten printer downloads
Published on: March 29th, 2010 Preston Gralla @itbusinessca
We live and work in a cold, cruel world where our laptops take a lot of abuse. Regardless of how gentle we try to be, it's inevitable that sooner or later our notebooks
Published on: September 14th, 2009 Brian Nadel @itbusinessca
It's no secret that computers (like their users) slow down with age. Disks fill up with the detritus of use, from old file fragments to the echoes of programs that once lived but
Windows 7 may be building up some hype with its beta release, but as plenty of PC users will tell you, sometimes newer isn't better. Many PCs simply don't have the horsepower to
Published on: January 27th, 2009 Preston Gralla and Dave Methvin @itbusinessca
While economic challenges are moving banks south of the border to slash IT budgets, Canadian backs appear more resilient and will continue to invest more on new tech projects in 2009, a new
It's official: IT budgets, once so resilient in the face of three years of worsening economic news, aren't immune to the downturn after all.IT spending is expected to grow just 2.6 per cent
Technology vendors tout virtualization as a server sprawl slayer. However, companies adopting the technology shouldn't just focus on this short term gain, industry experts say.Rather, they should also look at longer term benefits
Published on: March 19th, 2008 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
