About Lee Rickwood
Lee Rickwood covers developments in media and technology with particular interest in how such developments affect our social, political and economic activities and interactions.
by Lee Rickwood
By using GPS, audio and sound recordings and other digital tools, new wayfinding apps can bring surroundings to life with audible descriptions of the immediate environment.
by Lee Rickwood
A new mobile consumer and entry-level smartphone user can get into the game for less than $200 (CDN).
by Lee Rickwood
It is always a good time to reduce automobile accidents and related injuries or fatalities so capable products that can make positive contributions should be welcome.
by Lee Rickwood
Calls for increased control for Canadians over their personal data, enhanced enforcement and penalty powers for the Privacy Commissioner and long-needed updates to federal and provincial privacy laws have been made loud and clear.
by Lee Rickwood
The notion that protecting us from “goods” determined to be dangerous by searching individual handheld devices and not unplugging the Internet as a whole seems very limited and ineffective.
by Lee Rickwood
A new digital app takes users along an eleven-stop tour of the area while highlighting several important industrial sites and factories, both long-gone and still standing.
by Lee Rickwood
Data anonymization implies that data can no longer be traced back to an individual user because all the personal identifying information has been removed. It may not be so.
by Lee Rickwood
This cleantech startup intends to completely replace single-use plastics with its patented product and process technology.