IDC Canada predicts we will spend 5.5 per cent more on software in 2008, while expenditures on IT services will go up 4.3 per cent. Find out what the economy has in store for the IT industry in Canada
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The CRTC will hold hearings next year on whether it needs to support Canadian content on new media such as the Internet as it does on radio and TV. Canadians are ‘lagging’ in the amount of news and entertainment shows being shown on new media, it says
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Stage Manager is targeted at companies running multi-tier applications and is said to help deal with server sprawl and configuration drift. How VMWare’s offering helps administrators take snapshots
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Instant messaging, smart phones, virtual meetings and company-supplied PCs. Is there anything else young people are demanding from prospective insurance employers? Why, yes. They want Facebook access as well. Find out what tech toys insurance companies need lure young hires
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ClimateCHECK is trying to quantify the environmental impact of IT products, including data centres, power and printers. How Ontario’s government is tackling electronic waste
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The Asprox botnet has a new executable file that installs as a service called Microsoft Security Center Extension.” Find out how it spreads
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Los Angele-based SheKnows.com, the online women’s destination site owned by AtomicOnline, said Wednesday afternoon that it has acquired PregnancyandBaby.com, an online community for pregnant women. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. PregnancyandBaby offers online articles, a message board, and other features focused on women in preconception through pregnancy. According to SheKnows, the acquisition is one of several planning to strengthen the site’s pregnancy channel.
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Jeffrey Stiefler, who was most recently chairman and CEO of Calabasas-based Digital Insight, has joined a Silicon Valley venture capital firm as a venture partner. According to San Mateo-based Emergence Capital Partners, Stiefler has joined the firm to help it expand its team and network. Stiefler was head of Digital Insight when it was sold to Intuit last year for $1.4 billion. A spokesperson for Emergence Capital Partners told socalTECH that the Stiefler will remain in Southern California, where the firm currently has 3 investments. Stiefler has also previously served as President of American Express, and CEO of IDS Financial Services…. (more)
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Irvine-based iQ4bis Software, a provider of business intelligence and reporting software, announced today that the firm has inked an OEM partnership with Miles 33, a provider of software for the newspaper publishing industry. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. iQ4bis said that Miles 33 will offer its software suite to publishers. The software will be used to help publishers track advertising revenues, accounts receivable, and circulation data.
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Today, BushLeague.TV (www.bushleague.tv), is launching its online site video and web site for “dudes.” The site is backed by DECA, an online entertainment studio which is venture funded by Mayfield, General Catalyst, and Atomico. The new site is the latest for DECA, which is also behind the video podcasts for the popular BoingBoing blog site, CNET’s Dog and Pony Show, and other video podcasts and blogs. We spoke with Allison Kingsley, the site’s General Manager and former Executive Director of the Groundlings Theater comedy club, along with DECA’s Michael Wayne .
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