Stories by: Briony Smith

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    Sitemasher to reduce developers' cutting, pasting 10/10/2008 10:01:00

    Web site development service Sitemasher went live Monday with a new service geared toward making developers' lives a little easier.
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    ISV creates open-source alternative to Twitter 07/07/2008 10:14:15

    Wikitravel and Certifi.ca founder Evan Prodromou launched last week an open-source microblogging tool that will give users -- including those in the enterprise -- an alternative to industry leader Twitter.
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    Micropayments: what not to do 101 26/06/2008 12:04:51

    Two years ago, Canadian contactless micropayment vendor Dexit was quietly morphed into the point-of-sale company HDX. No-one cared much.
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    Open-source Asterisk appliance takes on Nortel 10/06/2008 10:11:54

    Media processing vendor Pika Technologies announced Friday that its Warp appliance line is customer-ready and ready to slay the Nortels and Ciscos of the world in a bid for the small to mid-sized corporate tele-space.
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    Firewall tailored to monitor Web 2.0 activity 05/05/2008 10:23:25

    Firewall and application control vendor Palo Alto Networks announced last week a few first-to-market features for its PA-4000 Series firewalls that allow organizations to identify and control applications and user behavior.
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    Microsoft Research hits the road with mobile tech 17/03/2008 08:22:01

    Mobile technologies, from Wi-Fi to RFID, took center stage among the two-dozen-plus prototypes on display for the press last week at Microsoft Research's annual developer show-and-tell, TechFest.
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    Defrag on demand, without the crash 18/02/2008 09:44:46

    Defragmenting software company Diskeeper recently released the new version of its product, Diskeeper 2008.
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    Sneak peek: Windows Server 2008 03/12/2007 14:44:31

    At the worldwide technical workshop for the upcoming Windows Server 2008 on the Microsoft campus this week, Canadian industry execs gathered to discuss what the product features might mean for IT professionals, and what kind of uptake might occur in the Canadian market.
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    Put a stop to bloated backups 03/12/2007 07:21:29

    You never know when trouble may hit -- a freak thunderstorm could take out your data center, or a hacker might infiltrate your infrastructure. The enterprise has caught on to the importance of backing up data, but when do you stop? With storage capacity growing at around 50 percent per year, it's important to safeguard your data, but at what point does the cautious Cassandra become the overly nervous Nelly?
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    Canada privacy czar quashes used-goods database 14/09/2007 09:52:59

    Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian has ordered the collection and destruction of a large amount of data that many Ottawa residents were unaware the police was monitoring -- used-goods store records.
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    Will business learn to love the Mac? 19/06/2007 21:39:46

    Is the time approaching when Apple will grab a significant share of the enterprise market? The answer is 'yes', according to Joe Habraken, an assistant professor with the University of New England and an author of numerous IT books.
 
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