Wi-Fi poses battery and price issues
Ronald Gruia, program leader for emerging communications at market research firm Frost & Sullivan Canada, said portable phones that use the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi protocol use more battery juice than...
View ArticleTapping into the wireless zone
The keyboard is a necessary but often neglected part of a computer system. Desktop systems often come with gruesome $8 specials that torture their users with poor touch and poorer ergonomics. Tapping...
View ArticleHP extends mobile offerings
“HP is focusing on connecting users,” said Todd Bradley, executive vice-president of HP’s personal systems group. “Our mobility business is up 40 per cent year over year, and what’s driving this space...
View ArticleWireless solutions: the sky’s the limit
Wireless LANs have been sprouting up in offices, shops and boardrooms for some time, but the technology continues to evolve rapidly. What’s coming is the next wave of Wi-Fi. “In the enterprise market,...
View ArticleLaptops cook at Supercom’s bistro show
Rain failed to dampen the spirits of Toronto-area resellers last month who came to see the latest laptops and accessories at Supercom’s first “Notebook Bistro” at a local restaurant. An estimated 200...
View ArticleFujitsu shocks light market
Paul Moore, Fujitsu’s senior director of mobile product marketing, referred to the 1 kg. (2.2 lb.), 19 mm (three-quarter inch) thick Q2010 as “the Montblanc pen and Movado watch of notebooks.” “The...
View ArticleChannel defender
“I’m a farm boy,” says Ralph Hyatt, who grew up on a Southern Ontario spread herding purebred Charolais cattle. But one might say computing was in his genes. His father was an IBM Canada engineer who...
View ArticleFueling the need for RFID technology
Having spent 18 years in the transport and logistics industries, Dino De Luca was aware that companies needed new solutions and technologies to manage their warehouse, inventory and delivery systems....
View ArticleTLS keeps on trucking
A story of a young computer programmer, fresh out of university, who turned his first job into a long, successful business in software development, sounds more like a fable told to keep unruly...
View ArticleMSI brings notebooks to Canada
Shanghai, China. – Five years ago Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. (MSI) was in a dangerous position in the market: More than 80 per cent of its business was motherboards. Vincent Lai, worldwide...
View ArticleLaptop design goes funky
When you lay eyes on a car, you get an instant impression of its characteristics, and often even know the make and model with a quick glance. Even I, whose automotive knowledge is more or less limited...
View ArticleItronix wants partners
Since setting up its Canadian subsidiary 18 months ago, Itronix has signed 25 channel partners and is looking to add more, particularly in Ontario and the Western provinces In order to be successful in...
View ArticleA better way to communicate
These days, smartphones are the norm, not the exception, as galloping convergence infects both business users and consumers. According to IDC, almost 20 million units were shipped worldwide in Q2 of...
View ArticlePoor results push Lexmark’s wireless plans
During a conference call with media and analysts, Lexmark International Inc. announced its second-quarter results ending June 30. Paul Curlander, chairman and CEO of Lexmark, said the overall results...
View ArticlePromising post about promises
Every day, staff and volunteers at United Ways Centraides are hard at work in local communities across Canada. Locally and nationally, our goal is the same: to create opportunities for a better life...
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