Montreal-based cloud provider buys ThoughtBus
SherWeb, a provider of cloud services and Microsoft’s 2013 World Hosting Partner of the Year, has acquired…
BlackBerry privatization efforts fail and CEO Heins is out
Fairfax Financial has failed to find investors to partner with and take BlackBerry private. Instead the Toronto…
Peter Galanis is out as HP Canada leader
The embattled Peter Galanis is no longer running HP Canada. Galanis will have a new role in the enterprise…
More spectrum needed to meet subscriber demand for more bandwidth: Ericsson
(ITWorldCanada.com staffer Nestor Arellano continues reporting from Japan, where Ericsson is holding its annual Business Innovation Forum)…
Chromebooks for business? Vendors say yes, but barriers remain
In the consumer space, Chromebooks have been generating a great deal of hype, although that hype has…
Cisco Canada hires former Symantec Canada channel chief
Cisco Systems Canada has confirmed to CDN that Fred Patterson has joined the subsidiary as the director…
SMBs have false sense of IT security: report
A new report by security vendor McAfee and retailer Office Depot found there appears to be a…
Condusiv Technologies hires Canadian channel veteran for GM
Condusiv Technologies, formerly known as Diskeeper, has named former Compaq Canada executive Ian Vaudry as its new…
SMBs have older PCs; channel can help with upgrades: Intel
A new study sponsored by Intel Corp. is highlighting the productivity costs small businesses are facing due…
U.S. cloud vendor gobbles up Canadian SMB hosting provider
Montreal-based iWeb, an IT infrastructure provider to SMBs has been acquired by Atlanta-based cloud vendor Internap for…
Gaming for profits
If it weren’t for my early years with JT (Jack Tramiel) during the Atari era, I probably…
How smartphones have the potential to change our cities
TOKYO –The future of the world is in your hands. It’s a phrase that used to be…
Xerox Canada enters the retail channel
Printing and imaging vendor Xerox Canada is entering the retail channel, through a partnership with Best Buy…
BlackBerry looking at how to monetize 20 million new iOS, Android BBM users
The numbers are in and BlackBerry’s launch of its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service on Android and iOS…
Open Data Institute creates Canadian node
The open data movement got another shot in the arm this week with the appearance of World…