By Ted Kritsonis

Imagine having all your digital snapshots of your family, your vacations, your experiences — essentially your life’s memories, all gone because you never bothered to back everything up. The feeling of loss, especially over something you could’ve completely avoided had you cared enough to bother trying, is coupled with shame because making sure that all your data is secured multiple times is not hard — and proves a worthy investment.

By Lee Rickwood

Canada continues to put out the hardware, software and wetware that are key to the success of the global consumer electronics industry.

So let’s hold CES here next year, eh?!?

By Ted Kritsonis

Buying used or refurbished may not seem like the best way to get a new laptop, but a real gem can be found for the right price.

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Since smartphones are quickly replacing PCs as the personal communication device of choice, the need to secure our mobile devices has become critical.

By Lee Rickwood

Although the new Canadian Copyright Act could still be amended, as tabled it includes provisions that will let you record radio, TV and Web content for your own personal use. It also allows you to make copies of content you have purchased – sometimes.

By Lee Rickwood

It may be one of the hottest tech topics today, but it is also a metaphor for things unknown, unseen or uncertain.

By Ted Kritsonis

The digital age may have lessened the need to actually print off documents, but the fact printers now connect to the Internet means that how and what you’re printing has changed.

By Ted Kritsonis

Adobe’s announcement yesterday that it would no longer support Flash in mobile devices after version 11.1 is a bold move that opens the door for HTML5 as the new standard for rich web content on smartphones and tablets.

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple’s new iPhone 4S may be seen on the surface as an iterative upgrade to its predecessor, the popular iPhone 4. Same form factor, same screen size but now powered with a faster dial-core Apple A5 processor, much improved graphics performance and slightly faster Internet access speeds. However, it may be the start of something much bigger.

By Lee Rickwood

Added intelligence, new hardware and software tools make for better – if not safer – tablet typing.

By Ted Kritsonis

Now that Rogers LTE network has spread from Ottawa to Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, just how fast does it actually go?

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
The iPhone 4, iPod Touch and  the iPad 2 make convenient photo taking devices. We look at three iOS photo apps that will improve the experience.