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Strangest help desk requests
Every wonder what kind of crazy requests the folks in the IT support department get hit with by their technologically challenged colleagues? Well, wonder no more. A new survey by Robert Half Technology...
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Inspirational women in tech, including Research in Motion’s CIO
I usually ignore emails from American PR firms – what do they have to do with British Columbia, right? But today I got one worth keeping, and passing on. Little PINK Book is a popular women’s online...
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BREAKING NEWS: Health minister says he read riot act to IT leaders over...
Note to readers: this post has been updated with IBM’s reaction. BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Health minister Terry Lake says he’s “read the riot act” to health system leaders involved in building an $842...
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Vaughn Palmer: Liberals pay lip service to ‘the duty to document’
VICTORIA — As the B.C. Liberals scramble to contain the fallout from their don’t-write-it-down and delete-it-if-you-do approach to keeping public records, they put out a call last week to a...
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Envy motivates Facebook users to post their fabulous vacation photos, UBC...
VANCOUVER — What’s driving your Facebook friends to post all those photos of their fabulous vacation? Envy may be the key motivator, according to new research from a University of B.C. professor. The...
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Holiday pics online magnify effects of envy
If your Facebook friends are looking great and enjoying exotic holidays, it might be best if you just unfriend them now and avoid a vicious cycle of jealousy and one-upmanship. Facebook users who see...
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BC Hydro lied to regulator, NDP says
VICTORIA — BC Hydro lied to the province’s independent regulator about a massive internal computer project, which has run millions over budget and into years of delays, according to the Opposition...
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Video: B.C. government IT projects that have gone wrong
Vaughn Palmer and Rob Shaw discuss the newspaper four-day series on government computer projects, examples of IT projects that have gone wrong and what government can do to fix mistakes in the future.
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B.C. Auditor general faults province for lax computer security
VICTORIA — Many of the B.C. governments computer systems are at risk of being compromised by hackers due to lax security controls, says the province’s auditor general. Carol Bellringer said Tuesday...
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In IT, starting small can be better and cheaper than dreaming big
VICTORIA — A $15-million computer database designed to help family doctors refer patients to specialists was so plagued with problems that government had to abandon it completely, only to have doctors...
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BC Hydro boss orders investigation into misleading statements to utility...
VICTORIA — BC Hydro’s CEO says her corporation didn’t intentionally mislead the province’s independent regulator about a large computer project, but she is “disappointed by the level of transparency”...
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BC Hydro boss apologizes for inaccurate testimony
VICTORIA — BC Hydro is apologizing to the province’s independent power regulator for misleading testimony it provided on a multi-million-dollar computer software project. Hydro CEO Jessica McDonald...
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Vaughn Palmer: Privacy breach a failure of ‘executive leadership,’ watchdog says
VICTORIA — For the sake of a $14,000 saving in storage costs, the B.C. Education Ministry embarked on a botched data backup scheme that risked breaching the personal privacy of millions of British...
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Vaughn Palmer: Inspector Dix holds Hydro's feet to the fire
VICTORIA — For more than a year, Opposition MLA Adrian Dix has dogged B.C. Hydro for spending hundreds of millions of dollars on information technology projects with dubious results. He scored an...
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B.C. ranchers use drones to ensure their cows come home
The drone John Church saw that day was only a toy. “I saw some kids flying a drone,” recalls the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) professor, “and I thought about cattle.” Not an obvious leap, but for...
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