Category Archives: CIO

20 mobile trends and future technologies

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02 Dec 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Highlights from presentations by Info-Tech, AMD, Sony and RIM on emerging trends and future applications for mobile technology, at an event hosted by the Ontario government.

— reprinted at CIO.com, 20 Mobile Trends and Future Technologies

CIO speaks frankly about IBM’s CIO survey

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20 Oct 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

IBM explored the results of its global CIO survey over an early breakfast meeting with Canadian CIOs. ADP Canada’s CIO provided the perspective of a high growth company.

— reprinted by CIO.com, CIO Speaks Frankly About IBM’s CIO Survey

The new soft skill: virtual competence

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14 Jul 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Researchers from the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business suggest that virtual competence is a soft skill managers should be encouraging in their staff. Why IT professionals would have higher virtual competence than those of other industries.

— reprinted by CIO.com, The New Soft Skill: Virtual Competence

How many Twitter followers does it take to get a job?

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10 Jul 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Your online popularity might be as valuable to your career as a post-grad education. A recent job posting on Best Buy’s Web site prefers candidates with a graduate degree and at least 250 followers on Twitter.

— reprinted at CIO.com, How Many Twitter Followers Does it Take to Get a Job?

Symantec releases worldwide disaster recovery statistics

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29 Jun 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

More executives are involved in DR plans, virtualization still poses big challenges, and testing has a significant effect on customers and revenue, the survey says.

— reprinted by CIO.com, Symantec Releases Disaster-Recovery Statistics

Execs value e-mail over all other data

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31 May 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

With so much valuable and confidential information in our inboxes, it’s no wonder 81 per cent would recover that data first. There’s a strong legal argument for better backup, too.

— reprinted at CIO.com, Executives Value E-mail Over All Other Data

Spammers pin campaign on swine flu

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29 Apr 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

The disease has mutated from medspam to money-making. Now, malicious code is hiding in a PDF of swine flu FAQ.

— reprinted by PCWorld.com, Beware Swine Flu Spam

— reprinted by CIO.com, Spammers Pin Campaign on Swine Flu

Adventures in data recovery

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24 Feb 2009, ComputerWorld Canada

Russian hackers hold a casino site hostage, a Venezuelan town mistakes disk drives for organ transfers and a Toronto hospital needs ER for RAID array. Three adventure tales from CBL Data Recovery. WITH VIDEO

— reprinted by CIO.com, Adventures in Data Recovery