With no vendor support, Elcot’s decision to switch platforms was a daunting task but the opportunity to bypass yearly software licensing fees was an irresistible incentive

On May 26, 2006, Elcot (Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu) let in its first penguin. Things would never be the same again.

Source: IT Business Canada

“We had a case last week where 22 laptops were recovered – a security guard was stealing them.”

We’ve heard about headline-making security breaches, such as TJX and CIBC, but the smaller ones often go and unnoticed – and unreported.

Source: IT Business Canada

Women’s contributions to technology are often taken for granted, merely rolled up as part of the great tidal wave of innovation surrounding the Computer Age.

Women’s Herstory (also spelled “her story”), celebrated each year in March, gives us the opportunity to take a look at significant contributions of women to technology and business, and also to examine the potential impact outsourcing and offshoring might have on women in the technology sector.

Source: IT Business Canada

MIT Technology Review describes a new Wi-Fi router from Intel capable of sending a Wi-Fi signal tens of miles with 6-Mbps performance. This is perfect for rural areas without Internet service, and for less developed countries interested in building out their Internet infrastructure but no means to lay expensive cable or fiber optics. The routers cost about $500 each, and you need two of them for a point-to-point connection. Quoting: “Intel’s RCP platform rewrites the communication rules of Wi-Fi radios. Galinvosky explains that the software creates specific time slots in which each of the two radios listens and talks, so there’s no extra data being sent confirming transmissions. ‘We’re not taking up all the bandwidth waiting for acknowledgments,’ he says. Since there is an inherent trade-off between the amount of available bandwidth and the distance that a signal can travel, the more bandwidth is available, the farther a signal can travel.”