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Financial Post: For RIM's salvation, much hangs on push to hook enterprise users to BlackBerry 10
There are still many who immediately associate RIM's BlackBerry devices with the worlds of business and government, and those corporate users factor heavily into the long term survival of Canada's most famous technology company.
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EdTech K-12: How to Combat Notebook Theft
(1-Nov-2011) Providing inner-city students with portable computers can make them attractive targets for crime. That's the problem that Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) officials faced as they worked to improve technology access for the California district's 40,000 students. Fortunate...
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Financial Post: Free apps that can help you run a small business
(October 22) The best things in life may be free, but they get better when you pay for them. At least, this is the rationale behind the freemium model, which is taking the mobile and web application world by storm. There’s no doubt that freemium applications have appeal. These apps, generally ...
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The Globe and Mail: The cloud hanging over Google Docs
(September 18) When David Senf and colleagues at technology research firm International Data Corp. needed to collaborate on a spreadsheet, the easiest way was to upload it to Google Docs, a cloud-based service where they could all edit it. Though IDC specializes in technology, it didn’t have a...
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The Globe and Mail: New apps improve iPad's Microsoft compatibility
(September 6, 2012) As you would expect of an independent technology analyst, Carmi Levy usually carries lots of technology with him when he travels. But on a vacation last year, he decided to lighten his load on a short trip to Quebec City. So he took only an Apple iPad along. Sure enough, be...
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IT World Canada: Salesforce Touch brings fight to Adobe, Microsoft
(September 20) Developers can code in any language they are comfortable with and deploy an app to any mobile device with the new platform, according to Salesforce.com. But an analyst says they might be too late to the race to gain real traction as a pure development platform With the launch of...
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Maclean's Magazine: Microsoft hits control-alt-reboot
(September 18) It was just over a year ago that hedge fund manager David Einhorn called for Steve Ballmer, the CEO ofMicrosoft Corp., to step down. Citing a stock price that hasn’t budged from US$30 in a decade, and a stuck-in-the-past corporate world view, Einhorn said it was time to “give someo...
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Maclean's: Bell pitches Astral deal as key to take on Netflix, Apple, Google
(September 11/ 2012) MONTREAL – Bell will launch a “made-in-Canada” competitor to Netflix and other big U.S. online TV and entertainment providers, CEO George Cope said Monday as part of his pitch for the company’s $3.4-billion acquisition of Astral Media. The service would be available on dem...
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Maclean's Magazine: Apple and Facebook sow their data-farms
(September 6) From above, the warehouses look as nondescript as a Costco. But inside they house the backbones of some of today’s biggest, most important companies. As online services like cloud computing grow, and people move to store more of their lives online, the push is on to build ever more ...
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