MONTREAL – Information-technology services firm CGI Group Inc. (TSX:GIB.A) expects the strong loonie will prompt Canadian companies to invest more in IT systems and clear its own path to more U.S. acquisitions.

Source: Canoe.Ca

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A few years back, some proprietary hardware companies hit the panic button when Dell and Microsoft Windows moved into point-of-sale (POS) systems. Fast forward to the present, and open source is trying its hand at disrupting the POS market. You already know about Linux running on POS systems. Now, POS applications themselves are going open source. Here’s how.

Source: TechIQ

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Most of the time malware deployment requires client side interaction

The recent OS X-specific Mac Trojan ignited many hot conversations on various security mailing lists last week. Supposedly, the excitement regarding the Trojan is that it is the first time profit-seeking criminals have paid attention to the OS X platform, versus script kiddies and the hobbyists. Personally, I don’t know what the big deal is; Mac-based computers have been host to all the normal types of malware for more than two decades, albeit not as frequently as Microsoft Windows PCs.

Source: IT Business Canada

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