Calgary to Get Its Own Spaceship – uhh, Bass Ship
by Lee Rickwood
Beama Visual does some amazing mash-ups itself, with creative video mapping and custom anaglyph 3D animations set to live music and sound effects.
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Data Privacy Day 2016 is About Protecting Not Hiding Your Information
by Lee Rickwood
From cyber-criminality to targeted advertising, from corporate spies to commercial retailers, from government agencies to technology developers, it seems almost everyone is looking at our online activity. And not just looking: our digital fingerprints are being are being tracked, collected, stored, analyzed, cross-referenced and re-purposed, often without our knowledge and often by entities unknown to us.
Consumer Protection and the Internet of Things
Of all the things connected by the Internet of Things, it appears that a robust strategy for consumer protection, corporate security and individual privacy has not yet been fully hooked up. The Internet of Things (IoT) broadly refers to a…
David Bowie in Toronto – Gallery Exhibit Showed His Genius
by Lee Rickwood
The high-tech show will present more than 300 of Bowie’s creations and collaborations in fashion, sound, theatre, art and film, from a career that spanned five decades.
Are Mobile Phone Sniffers in Use by Police Forces?
By Lee Rickwood
Incoming and outgoing calls as well as text messages can be monitored and recorded, encryption keys can be extracted, and all this can happen to one or several phones simultaneously, without an owner’s knowledge or permission.
It Will Be a Happy New Year, as Alien Civilizations Unlikely to Attack!
By Lee Rickwood
Yikes! Pollution is one tell-tale sign of civilization. So too, communication using radio transmissions – something else our civilization is pretty good at.
Canadian Tech Drives Interactive Visitor Experiences in Retail, Financial, Gaming and Gambling
By Lee Rickwood
Gaming and gambling establishments make use of interactive video technology systems, both for entertainment and regulatory purposes.
New Rules and Regs, New Servers & Networks Needed to Allay Fears as Canadian Businesses Eye the Cloud
By Lee Rickwood
More than half of those surveyed said they had concerns about data security in the cloud, with only 35 per cent saying they feel their data is safer in the cloud. Nearly half also said they wanted a local data centre that provides them with control over their data.