By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Nokia and Microsoft are more alike than just being the dominant players in their respective markets. Both companies create products but more importantly, they create ecosystems. Nokia, like Microsoft, has wanted to participate in the portable gaming space and even backed its own failed N-Gage initiative a few years ago. With Microsoft’s thriving Xbox community and the power and resources of both companies, this can now be a reality.

By Hessie Jones

In 2011, the increasing divide of the Internet will continue, driven by giants like Apple, Facebook and Google …

Video featuring Ted Kritsonis

This may very well be Microsoft’s last chance to make any serious impact in the ongoing smartphone wars. Windows Phone 7 is undoubtedly an impressive combination of design and function, but it will take some time to see if there’s enough support for it to begin competing against the likes of the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android.

By Lee Rickwood

SOTI is still owner-operated and proudly Canadian, it’s still coming out with strong product offerings, and it is still working closely with the companies it once turned down.

by Lee Rickwood

Creativity and innovation in the solution are expected, but so too solid evidence of measurable results and demonstrable ROI.

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The modern smartphone relies on three critical components in order to be competitive in today’s market. Great hardware, a capable and stable OS and an application ecosystem powered by strong developer support and an app store.

By Lee Rickwood

Tech camps and media centres provide free access to state-of-the-art technology to introduce disadvantaged youth to potential careers in new media, while providing computer literacy skills and opportunities for creative self-expression.

By Lee Rickwood

Microsoft will do the heavy lifting, providing back-end functions like ranking search listings for Web, video and image results generated from search queries. Yahoo remains responsible for how the content looks on the page.

Text and photos by Ted Kritsonis

Microsoft faces a real uphill battle in trying to compete with entrenched mobile powerhouses like Apple, Google and RIM, and Windows Phone 7 is likely the last chance for Redmond to have any hope of staying relevant in the smartphone wars. At a gaming event in Toronto yesterday, I got a firsthand demo of the new operating system, and here’s a little of what you can expect.

The fight for the family room became even more heated last week at the 16th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (“E3″), which once again served as a battleground between the three major console companies: Microsoft, Sony …

by Lee Rickwood

The scalability of online services like BPOS means they can meet the needs of larger, more established companies – as well as the small, home-based start-up.

By Tim Teatro

Samsung has recently announced that they are to deploy Chromium OS, Google’s new operating system in a new line of netbooks later this year—the first sign that Chromium will be well received by OEMs. Still under development, the OS is already promising to change what we expect from an operating system.