You're gripping a triple-shot Espresso Macchiato with your left hand and prepping a presentation on your laptop's screen with your right. You chat with your client from your smartphone, trusting that the whoosh
Published on: April 20th, 2011
Liane Cassavoy
@itbusinessca
By Yale Holder Very few of us can accurately predict the future, but with the rapid explosion of data capable cellphones known as smartphones I believe the time has come to put the
Published on: March 11th, 2011
Yale Holder
@itbusinessca
Dual-core processor power and cloud computing capability via integration with Citrix Receiver tops some of the features that makes Motorola’s Atrix smartphone a formidable contender to Apple’s iPhone 4.Motorola Mobility Canada recently announced
Published on: March 10th, 2011
Nestor Arellano and Michael Gartenberg
@itbusinessca
The Apple Insider has reported that analyst Brian White with Ticonderoga Securities has described Apple's iPad 2 event, to be held today, as a "crucial product launch." But even as this developed, reports
Published on: March 2nd, 2011
Michael Burns and Jared Newman
@itbusinessca
Are your workers clamouring to recruit their personal iPads for telework duty? Are any of your executives lobbying IT to be given corporate network access for their Android phone?The trend towards using personal
Published on: February 25th, 2011
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
As technology evolves, many of the barriers that have traditionally limited telecommuting continue to disappear. The tedious standard of spending 40 hours a week sitting in a cubicle is fading as employers and
Published on: January 12th, 2011
IDG News Service
@itbusinessca
Financial imperatives are forcing many smaller Canadian firms to drastically cut operating costs.While there may be business benefits to this, one thing cost-cutting doesn't do is improve employee morale.Except when it comes to
Published on: June 4th, 2010
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
Mobility, social media, open source and virtualization are four keys to productivity and cost savings, especially for small and mid-sized firms.This was the consensus of panelists who spoke at a recent roundtable organized
Published on: May 5th, 2010
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
Hello, I'm Joaquim Menezes, senior online editor at IT World Canada, and in today's panel discussion we're going to focus on a truly relevant subject: flexible work strategies.We have an exceptional panel today.On
Published on: February 25th, 2010
Joaquim P. Menezes
@itbusinessca
Data aggregation vendor QL2 Software Inc. already follows best practices to prepare for the worst. It has redundant systems and regularly reviews its plans for both disaster recovery and business continuity. But when
Published on: December 14th, 2009
Todd R. Weiss
@itbusinessca
Looking at the long lines forming outside makeshift clinics offering H1N1 vaccines across Canada, a human resources (HR) professional would probably say: "If we hadn't mapped out our business continuity plan in early
Published on: November 4th, 2009
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
When Carrie Burns-Solitar invited her colleagues to apply for 20 available spots in a telecommuting pilot, 66 wanted the chance to work while wearing a bathrobe and flannel pants. It was a high-interest
Around five years ago, the very prospect of staff from Ontario's Central Agencies I & IT Cluster (CAC) ever working from home would be considered preposterous.In fact suggestions to that effect made during
Published on: September 29th, 2009
Joaquim P. Menezes
@itbusinessca
Recent surveys testify to the dramatic growth of telework in Canada. The number of Canadian organizations offering telework has grown from 25 per cent in 2007 to 40 per cent in 2008, according
Published on: May 6th, 2009
Joaquim P. Menezes
@itbusinessca
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