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San Francisco and New York garner the lion’s share of attention for their digital media start-ups and innovations, yet Canadians here and abroad have played central roles in this industry. The names Michael Cowpland, Marshall McLuhan, Mike...
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I wrote in our last issue that RIM’s co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, should be given the opportunity to run their company until mid-2012, to prove that they can reverse the current slide. I said the company spent a lot of money...
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Holiday season can be tough for those with car fans on their gift lists. Unless a new car is within your budget, choosing what to wrap up is tough and you usually have to settle for a gift card or a manufacturer-branded T-shirt. We’re here to...
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The motto of Google’s Earth Outreach program is “You want to change the world. We want to help,” and the company has just launched the program in Canada. Google Earth Outreach helps non-profit and public-benefit organizations...
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Scammers, malware writers and other cybercriminals routinely link celebrity news, gossip and photos to downloads of their malicious code. That means searching for a cool video, juicy bit of information or fun photo could leave you with an infected...
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A full 19 per cent of Canadian post-secondary students and 16 per cent of Canadian employees surveyed by Cisco feel the Internet is as important as air, water, food and shelter. The 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report surveyed young...
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It seems that TV networks increasingly don’t much like the cable systems that carry their programs. CTV, for example, just released a free iPad app that allows users to stream CTV and CTV Two’s new programs and returning hits. It also...
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Numbers from the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association highlight just how much Canadians love to text. According to the CWTA: Canadians sent 19.5 billion person-to-person text messages in Q2 2011, a growth of 8.3 per cent compared to...
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Two billion people worldwide were Internet users in 2010. By 2015, that will grow to 2.7 billion, according to IDC. That represents four in 10 humans projected to be on the planet in four years. By that time, more U.S. Internet users will access the...
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One of my Twitter mentors is based in B.C. Blair Semenoff’s Twitter handle is @flipbooks, he’s the second most-followed tweeter in Vancouver and he’s been re-tweeted more than a million times. So he’s a player, and I take his...
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It is April 2011. Mike Lazaridis, joint CEO of Research In Motion, is giving an interview to a BBC TV journalist, who asks about the security issues the company is facing in India. “That’s unfair,” said Lazaridis, in what amounts to...
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For almost 60 years, Ericsson—the world’s largest telecommunications company—has been operating in Canada with a strong commitment to research and development (R&D). With three sites in the country dedicated to R&D&mdash...
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Peter Hortensius is the president of the product group at Lenovo. He has front-line responsibility for the look and functionality of almost all the company’s products, and because Lenovo is the world’s second-largest computer manufacturer...
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Small and mid-sized business owners may have misconceptions that leave them vulnerable to attack, data loss, service disruption and worse. “Shielded by little more than a firewall and a false notion they are too small for hackers to target,...
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Perfect security is an impossible feat. Or at least it seems that way, with daily stories of data breaches, privacy scandals and data-stuffed laptop snatchings. But while these bad news stories are all-too common, there are basic measures companies...
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Remember the days when your dad used to eat breakfast, grab his lunch box and head down to the factory or office to toil away from nine ’til five? A lot has changed since then. In today’s global economy, business priorities are rapidly...
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