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Copyright: Get It Right, by not following Access Copyright proposals
Collective Society Access Copyright, a business model intermediary used by some creators, has launched a C-32 related campaign website where they are critical of the fair dealings reform in C-32. I...
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What if I was the Bill C-32 lead from the Official Opposition Liberals?
On Thursday I met for a half hour with Pablo Rodriguez, MP for the Quebec riding of Honoré-Mercier, and the Heritage critic for the Liberal party. Copyright is joint between Heritage and Industry, so...
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Rebranding SAP techs is not innovation that makes sense
A topic at this year’s SAP TechEd is ‘Open Innovation’ where open ecosystem and interoperability were key themes. But how does wanting to rebrand NetWeaver, Sybase and Business Objects offerings align...
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Nine things seen & heard at IBM Information On Demand
There was the release of Cognos 10 and DB2 10 to much fanfare at IBM’s Information On Demand conference, the annual user event about data management and business analytics by the Armonk, New York...
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Software AG morphs into a vendor of software projects
I visited Software AG’s headquarters in Darmdstadt, Germany last week, where I got to hear from CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich about the company’s direction. One thing that stood out for me was Streibich...
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An honest expansion of cinema into the home
I have never hidden that I consider so-called Digital Rights Management (DRM) to be dishonest, often calling it Dishonest Relationship Misinformation. I have also suggested that fairness is a matter of...
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‘Everything-as-a-service’ makes IT departments the liaison
While the model will mean the IT admin is less burdened by daily operations, their new role will by no means be uninvolved. They’ll play liaison between the provider and the business to ensure the...
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Lotusphere 2011: Subtlety and Spacey were onstage
The Lotusphere 2011 conference in Orlando, IBM’s user conference for Lotus developers, took a very subtle approach to trumpeting the past year’s successes and updates and new tools to the Lotus...
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Investment Banking for Gold Medals: Going Cloud
Meet IT manager Jason Cox, who single-handedly manages IT at Own The Podium, a Calgary-based organization that aggregates and shares athlete performance and funding data to Canadian athletes and...
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IBM not so Smart at home
In light of thelawsuit by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, IBM Corp. should have perhaps started in-house first with its vision to implement processes and controls for better visibility and...
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How WestJet solved service governance in SOA
WestJet Airlines Ltd.’s enterprise architect, Bill Souliere, recounts on camera his company’s approach to services-oriented architecture and the very surprising hurdle they faced in terms of governance...
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VIDEO: Cisco exec on turning the network into 'the platform'
Scott Puopolo, a vice-president at network provider Cisco Systems Inc., visited Toronto last month where he spoke to ComputerWorld Canada, in this short video, about a new paradigm that sees the...
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Tying a corporate noose around social media can be tricky
A lawyer I spoke with who specializes in defamation lawsuits said the sheer nature of social media—the ease with which users can post comments—presents a hazard for employers who could find themselves...
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Toronto SAM Summit on June 16, 2011
For those looking to be educated on software license management for the purpose of dealing with audits, license compliance and contract negotiations with software vendors such as Microsoft Corp.,...
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Simple and fluid a process model must be
Mapping out a process model is important for buy-in from all those who will be affected. But even a good process can get tossed out the window if the model doesn’t convey what it’s supposed to ...(read...
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