Stories about: Telus

Two years ago, Canadian contactless micropayment vendor Dexit was quietly morphed into the point-of-sale company HDX. No-one cared much.

I don't think Apple ever officially called the iPhone a BlackBerry killer, but even Steve Jobs probably didn't see its device as a BlackBerry booster.

A router announced this week by Agito Networks is designed to help companies with wireless local-area networks (WLANs) save money on mobile phone calls.

When a small Illinois IT research firm published a study on the future of the Internet last week, it didn't expect to create an international furor. "

Lawyers, doctors and engineers are professionals. Now, with public confidence in IT ebbing as data thefts dominate headlines, its time for security workers to debate becoming a self-managing group.

Microsoft plans to buy mobile music service provider Musiwave, as the software giant looks to step up its consumer mobile offerings.

New companies have to be brash to enter the network security market, given that the industry has witnessed an explosion in creativity over the past five years and considering that big players such as Microsoft and IBM increasingly are throwing their weight around in security.

Despite glaring statistics and industry studies on the increasing demand for IT skills and the looming shortage of available talent, some IT professionals in Canada remain unconvinced.

From AT&T's Global Network Operations Center 40 miles west of New York City, CISO Ed Amoroso has as wide a window into the Internet as anyone. With a glance at a two-story wall covered with computer monitors and television screens, Amoroso can tell at any given moment how much e-mail, Web and voice-over-IP traffic is streaming across AT&T's data networks, buzzing its way from business to business, person to person.

If you're old enough to remember the "generation gap" of the 1960s and 1970s, then it's likely you're now part of the "establishment" that manages the use of personal computing in business.

Widevine Technologies, a provider of downloadable content protection and digital forensics, this week attracted investments from Cisco and TELUS.