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- Canadian Rock Radio (gadget)
- Get direct links to 50 of Canada's best rock radio stations streaming music 24 hrs a day. Don't get sucked in and pay for live audio streams, when you can 1isten for free. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play there live stream from their site, and...
- Tags: British Columbia, Alberta, Radio, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-09-16
- Always-On makes another advance in Canada
- What I call Always-On technologies, the use of monitors and wireless networks to warn of coming health disasters, took another step forward this week in Alberta, Canada. University of Alberta scientists, in conjunction with LG Electronics of Korea, unveiled a prototype they call the Home Health Monitoring...
- Tags: Alberta, Health Care, Canada, Always-On, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- HP ProCurve Networking Case Study: University of Alberta
- The University of Alberta, located in Edmonton, the capital of the province of Alberta, is one of Canada's largest research institutions. Placing an equally strong emphasis on network security, the university's Faculty of Engineering realized the need to create the most secure network for their unique communication needs while providing...
- Tags: Alberta, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, HP ProCurve, Hip, Utility Computing, Networking
- Case studies
- United Farmers of Alberta Improves Overall Agility of Retail Operations
- United Farmers of Alberta UFA, a farm-supply and petroleum marketing co-operative, was tracking and analyzing mission-critical information using paper-based reports generated by an existing legacy system. This method was inhibiting the decision-making process, so UFA selected Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition as its Business Intelligence BI environment to improve...
- Tags: Alberta, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Marketing Research, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Teachers' Association Reduces Costs and Simplifies Licensing Management
- Representing approximately 39,000 educators throughout Alberta, Canada, The Alberta Teachers' Association ATA is dedicated to advancing public education and professional standards throughout the province. To improve communications and collaboration with and among its members and to help reduce administration costs, the ATA standardized its infrastructure on the Microsoft .NET Framework...
- Tags: Software, ATA, Alberta, Microsoft Corp.
- Case studies
- The Alberta Teachers' Association Improves Communication With Integrated Technology
- Established nearly 90 years ago to promote the teaching profession in Alberta, Canada, the Alberta Teachers' Association ATA advances the goals of public education, safeguards standards of professional practice, and advocates for its 33,000 members. A traditionally decentralized organization, the ATA made a strategic decision to centralize IT operations and...
- Tags: ATA, Alberta
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- Is VoIP the way forward?
- Is VoIP the way forward?VOIP Works Well For MeI disconnected at the street telco box for a coupla yrs now.The Shaw cable signal here in Calgary is reliable. I have an APC UPS unit to carry me thro' a brown/blackout. I'm paying for cable anyway to give me high speed...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?
- Is Wintel IT Expense a Giffen good?Theoretically, Murph should be rightLinux should be the cheaper. That is simply based on product cost. It's hard to compete with free. Google exemplifies the best use of Linux."Theoretically", if all OSs had equal pools of equally smart and well...
- Tags: Linux, Branding, Operating systems, Strategy, Giffen, operating system, brand, Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Sabotage and the cost of change
- Sabotage and the cost of changeNot doing a very good job......of keeping the confidentiality of your clients. From what you have written, it's easy to guess that there is only one provincial political party that you would even consider doing work for, and it's not the Liberals.Only question is...
- Tags: Operating systems, Servers, I.T, Only Question, Office 07, Sun Microsystems Inc., HP-UX, Unix, Microsoft Office, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- Oil and the future of cleantech are NOT separable
- Courtesy Gordon Murray & Mohr Davidow. I recently blogged about one VC's efforts in cleantech as it relates to finding renewable replacements for petrochemicals and coal-based products. That same company, Mohr Davidow, has invested in an auto design firm. Why? Because Gordon...
- Tags: Oil, Duck, Clean Technology, Fossil Fuel, Jadoo, Oil Pit, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Canada caught on its own tar baby. Tar sand investments now a dead duck?
- Canada caught on its own tar baby. Tar sand investments now a dead duck?Editing.There are many spelling errors and a missing link at the bottom of this article.Oil is messyThis is story is why China will become an even bigger superpower.Everything with them is a business transaction. They don't...
- Tags: own tar baby, tar baby, investment, duck, dead duck, oil
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Canada caught on its own tar baby. Tar sand investments now a dead duck?
- As one Canadian newspaper put it. Ducks in Alberta died a crude death. One of the species of ducks that died on a pond filled with crude oil polluted water: Bufflehead. Here's a picture of a gorgeous male Bufflehead in fine fettle. ...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?
- Here's a bit from a Washington Post report dated Dec 22/07 and headlined "FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics": CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would...
- Tags: Database, Information Technology, FBI, Ballot, Catalist, Federal Government, Government, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?
- Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?Mind ControlWith my X-files inspired name, and a subject line like that, I probably deserver to be dismissed as a loon, but...A read of Derren Brown's book "Mind Control" should make even the the most ardent sceptic ponder on just how controllable people are....
- Tags: Biometrics, Government, Authentication/Encryption, Mind Control, Google Inc., information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- I've been fired!
- I've been fired!He did say at the end :"I know this: yesterday wasn’t April fool’s - and tomorrow maybe somebody will think this is funny - but right now it’s about 1:15 in the morning and come 8:30 - I’ll be on the phone to the lawyers."Yes, smells fishy to...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Roger, April Fool, job
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Power costs and responses
- Power costs and responsesDistributed is the way to goOne rack of servers maybe none per building or floor coupled with Linux workstations on desktops is the most efficient way to go. (User education and IT SLAs are key in this environment. Users that like to reboot should be shown the...
- Tags: global warming, server, closet, POWER COSTS, user hostility
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- The worst software failures are successes
- In the movies you know what's coming when the team leader suggests the group separate and some red shirt gets sent off to investigate a dark cellar by herself - and oddly enough IT project failure reviews are often exactly like going to that kind of movie. ...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Failure, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- 68% of Canadians like to read newspaper during weekends
- Canada’s highest proportions of holiday-bargain shoppers are outlined below: Those most likely to be the bargain sale hunters by using ads from newspapers are living in Atlantic Canada (77%). Women (74%) are more likely than men (62%) to take this view. As for age, those in the older age groupings...
- Tags: Education, NB
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- 66% of Canadians enjoy newspaper ads
- 66% of Canadians indicate that they enjoy the page advertising and product/service inserts that come with the newspaper, some individuals are more likely than others to say that this is the case: Women (70%) are more likely than men (62%) to agree with this perspective, and 73% of households with...
- Tags: Education, Advertisement, Income, Household Income, Operational Accounting, Finance, NB
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- 45% of Canadians sometimes read the newspaper for the ads
- 64% of Canadians often keep the inserts and flyers around for a few days so that they can re-read what’s being offered for sale or what’s on special, 45% of Canadians indicate that there are some days when they read the newspaper as much for the ads as for the...
- Tags: Advertisement, Household Income, Operational Accounting, Finance, NB
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
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