Liveport Expands Hotel WiFi Service to Australia
Liveport, a leading high-speed wireless Internet provider to hotels across North America, will now be servicing the Australian market. Many disgruntled Australian travelers and worried hotel owners had reported that WiFi services were falling behind the quality of those offered in North America and Europe, said Liveport. Furthermore, poor signals, low speeds and high prices [...]
Canada’s .CA Turns 25
The .CA top-level domain turns 25 years old on May 14th. So if you’ve done the math correctly, you know that in 1987 .CA was born. If you’re wondering who was using the Internet back in ’87, you’re not alone. Extremely few Canadians were online, and the only people registering .CA domains were government representatives [...]
What would Canadians sacrifice for the Internet?
What things in your life would you give up to keep your Internet connection? Would you say goodbye to alcohol? Coffee? Chocolate, perhaps? The Rogers Innovation Report released on May 9th indicates that 34 percent of online survey participants would sacrifice booze, 31 percent would give up chocolate and about 27 percent might dump coffee [...]
OVH to Launch Web Hosting Services in North America
A new data centre in Quebec is the key to the North American expansion effort of French Web hosting provider, OVH. OVH acquired real estate that was part of the industrial zone of mining group, Rio Tinto Alcan from the City of Beauharnois, Quebec in January before formalizing plans to construct a new data centre [...]
Samsung Launches Series 7 Gamer
Serious gaming enthusiasts now have a high-performance laptop geared to their needs: the Samsung Series 7 Gamer. The passionate PC gamer will enjoy features such as a 17.3-inch full HD LCD display, high quality Dolby Home Theater surround sound, rich NVIDIA Geforce graphics, a 3rd generation Intel Core i7 processor, and a unique dial to [...]
TELUS Adds Virtual Private Cloud Service
TELUS has entered the cloud hosting arena with its new AgilIT Virtual Private Cloud service. AgilIT Virtual Private Cloud is a general-purpose IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) which allows Canadian businesses the flexibility to adjust their computing resources on demand, without the expense of buying more hardware or hiring additional IT staff. Tony Krueck, vice-president of Business Products [...]
CSC Expanding Cloud Computing Solutions to Canada
Global IT consulting firm, Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) announced on April 12th, it would introduce its BizCloud solution to help Canadian government agencies and businesses quickly leap into public and private cloud computing. The BizCloud solution, already widely used in Europe, Australia, Asia and the US, gives users all the components required for a private [...]
