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Archive for November 15th, 2007

Strong dollar will lead Canadian companies to invest in IT, says CGI

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

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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Point-of-Sale Systems Going Open Source?

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

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 [...]

Protecting end-users from themselves

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

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. [...]

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