You’ll have to hurry before Rupert puts it behind a paywall and blocks Google from indexing it, but the WSJ had a good article recently about technology in the workplace. At the office, you’ve got a sluggish computer running aging software, and the email system routinely badgers you to delete messages after you blow through […]

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Now this is inter­esting. Comments from Google’s president of the enter­prise division indicate he believes that Google Docs will “reach a ‘point of capability’ next year that it will serve the ‘vast majority’s needs.’” He acknowl­edged that Docs is currently “much less mature” than Google Mail or Calendar. “We know it. We wouldn’t ask people […]

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As long as your browser is Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, you can take the latest edition of Microsoft Office for a test drive without having to install a thing. Experience the bliss of the ribbon, the new UI metaphor that has already won my heart over. I loathe still having to do my work […]

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There’s been a lot of activity lately on the income trust front. Foreign firms are making bids left and right to acquire the Canadian entities, in the wake of the 31.5% trust tax intro­duced by the Conser­v­ative government. Jack Mintz, a professor at Rotman, the business school at the University of Toronto, discusses in a […]

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