Thursday December 26, 2024

Calling All Techie Women

  One of the best things about going out on a speaking tour is meeting up with IT professionals across Canada and I was really pumped to discover that there was going to be a Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner the same week that Damir and I would be there for Align IT. While the event […]

Watson Wyatt: Employers likely to continue improvements to HR technology in 2010

As companies prepare for the economic recovery, many are poised to enter 2010 with renewed interest in improving their HR technology systems, processes and organizational structures, according to experts at Watson Wyatt, a leading global consulting firm. “In the current economy, organizations will keep a watchful eye on their spending as they analyze their investments […]

Managing Your Virtual World

“Virtualization without management is more dangerous than not using virtualization in the first place.” ~ Tom Bittman, Gartner VP & Analyst There are many good things about using virtualization in your infrastructure: consolidation of physical servers flexibility to respond to business needs time savings when ramping up new services However, this same flexibility and agility […]

Wipro joins open handset alliance

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited, has joined the Open Handset Alliance, extending its device development and service Integration expertise around Android – an open mobile phone software stack.   The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a partnership of more than 60 global mobile industry leaders working together to accelerate innovation […]

Microsoft Director John Oxley: Leading Multi-Award Winning International Technology Authority and Executive–John talks about the drivers for strong leadership plus shares his top career tips and lessons

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Microsoft Director John Oxley: Leading Multi-Award Winning International Technology Authority and Executive; John talks about the drivers for strong leadership plus shares his top career tips and lessons. Enjoy, Stephen Ibaraki, FCIPS, ISP, ITCP/IP3P, […]

Wipro receives Most Outstanding Alliance Partner of the Year Award in Asia-Pacific and Japan from HP

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited, announced that it has been awarded the Most Outstanding Alliance Partner of the Year Award from the Software and Solutions group at HP during HP’s annual Asia-Pacific & Japan Partners @World Cup, held recently in Guangzhou City, China. The HP Software and Solutions Most Outstanding […]

Excellence in Action: Development Best Practices

Excellence is a rare commodity and one can’t be developed overnight. It takes time, training and very often perseverance. With IT becoming an increasingly vital strategic asset and business enabler in organizations today, excellence in the execution of IT projects is more important than ever. My colleagues Dave Remmer, Architect Advisor, and Adam Gallant, Developer […]

IT firms wanted

Colleagues from across the IT industry are teaming up to support leading overseas aid agency CARE International by taking part in the annual CARE IT 3 Peaks Challenge on 12-13 June. Once again, the challenge will see teams from across the IT sector taking on the three highest peaks in Scotland (Ben Nevis, 1,334m), England […]

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series

Mobile is the new “e” with more mobile phones than people wearing shoes. The implications are tremendous impacting business, industry, governments, academia, media, society, and globally. Here are some great resources. Microsoft Presspass link: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowsphone/ Official press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/feb10/02-15MWC10PR.mspx Interview with Andy Lees http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/feb10/02-15WindowsPhone7.mspx Video covering the Windows Phone 7 Series design http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowsphone/videoGallery.aspx Charlie Kindel’s […]

Infosys Technologies and Elan Pharmaceuticals apply co-creation model to transform discovery research

Infosys Technologies Limited said that it will design and implement the Research Informatics System (RISe) at Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a leading biotechnology company, to accelerate discovery research using a path-breaking co-creation engagement model that leverages Infosys’ existing intellectual property in this field. "We are confident that partnering and collaborating with Infosys will create a comprehensive […]