Tag archive: Ottawa

It’s a major discovery, a cyber spy network that’s infected 1,295 computers in 103 countries, according to the Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which is made up of researchers from Ottawa-based think tank SecDev Group and the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies. That might not seem like a lot of computers, but those machines are in foreign ministries and embassies. The discovery occurred after… Read More

Does your Web site load quickly? A study conducted by Gitte Lindgaard at Carleton University in Ottawa claims that Web surfers can make up their minds about pages they see for as little as 50ms, and that those snap judgments are confirmed when users spend more time examining the content of a site. In the study, published in the journal Behavior and Information Technology (a summary is available at nature.com), volunteers were shown images… Read More

From the City's press release: Heralding in a new era of city-wide WiFi Internet access, Grand Haven, Mich., Mayor Roger Bergman today announced the completion and full operation of the nation's first city-wide WiFi broadband network. Other cities have announced intent to build similar networks or have announced partial deployments; in contrast, the Grand Haven implementation, by Ottawa Wireless Inc., is the first full and… Read More

The Ottawa, ON company AssetMetrix has released a new asset management service in conjunction with their report that shows that a large percentage of companies may be adversely affected by Microsoft's decision to stop support for Windows 98. From their press release: AssetMetrix, the on-demand IT asset intelligence service, today announced Win98-Exodus, a new asset management service to help corporations identify PCs running… Read More