By Hessie Jones

In its quest to become more social…. correction….in its quest to be perceived as being social, Google has run into stumbling blocks. In the end the consumer loses out.

By Lee Rickwood

We are all players in the “Privacy Theatre”, living in an online world that shows only a pretense of privacy behind the curtain.

By Lee Rickwood

Hundreds of citizen journalists and videographer activists provided live video during the Occupations – streaming if not actually televising their ‘revolution’.

By Hessie Jones

As the Cluetrain Manifesto states, “Markets are now conversations.” The voice of the individual can multiply into the voice of the majority, easily drowning out the corporate voice.

By Lee Rickwood

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is as much about the provider as it is the consumer, and it has as much to offer the high tech industry in specific as it does the consumer marketplace in general.

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 Lee Rickwood

Technological developments being applied in what’s known as ‘digital out-of-home’ advertising industry are bringing amazing new abilities to track and measure the audience, to trigger and enhance client interactivity, and to find and identify new customers.

By Lee Rickwood

These are much more than academic awards. Just a week after one award winning researcher notified Facebook about such attacks, the social net made significant changes to its online systems.

By Lee Rickwood

If passed by the majority government, a controversial piece of Canadian Internet legislation could require Internet providers in Canada to hand over personal information to authorities without a warrant or judicial oversight.

by Lee Rickwood

These are pretty tech savvy seniors, and everyone in the room raised their hands as computer users and e-mailers, with maybe 60 or 70 per cent of them on Facebook, and about the same having used iPhones, digital cameras or video camcorders.

By Hessie Jones

Recent news about Facebook’s alleged smear campaign against Google has brought to question the real impact of disclosure on the users, who continuously feed their personal information into a priceless database.

By Lee Rickwood

User manuals and privacy policies should get a ‘thumbs up, thumbs down’ button.

It’s not just about telling users how something works.

It’s about telling them if, how and why information is gathered about how, when and where they use it.