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.
Freely accessible and widely usable, open data from public sources has been used in the development of several apps, including those that provide information about water quality at beaches, food safety at restaurants, parking lots, bike trails and transit routes.
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The company unveiled a suite of new products it says can improve efficiency, increase productivity and reduce environmental footprints.
Not only reduce, but in some cases, erase!
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A Canadian technology company has developed a high tech wearable display for athletes, outdoor enthusiasts, and people who fall down the hill (that’s my category) to while skiing, surfing or boarding.
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by Lee Rickwood
What if your friend turned out to be a real materialist, ‘only in it for the money’? What if they were constantly pushing you to buy things you may or may not want or even like? Would you still hang out?
Canadian privacy experts and technology developers look to data de-identification as a way to protect us all.
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by Lee Rickwood
October is Women’s History Month, and Canadian women past and present are being feted as pioneers in many different fields – like online publishing and space exploration
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When the time came to balance personal life and raising a family, against professional opportunities and a successful career in progress, she had no regrets over choosing family first.
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While new hardware and software-based tech solutions are coming forward, BYOD security is ineffective and many current iterations of a BYOD policy inflict extensive hard and soft costs on employees and the corporations they work for.
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