Online Photo Site Takes Top Toronto Tech Start-Up Award
By Lee Rickwood
Online promotion and social media marketing activities are powerful tools to promote the image and the artists selected on a new award-winning website, 500px.
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How to Find a Safer Cell Phone
By Lee Rickwood
Is there a ‘safer’ cell phone? And how can you tell, if so?
Internet Tracking and Online Surveillance Bill to Boost Costs, Restrict Privacy
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.
Mobile Apps and Multi-player Games come from Ottawa’s High Schools
Grade 3 students act as ‘Customers’, spec’ing out the kind of game they’d like to play, and doing some ‘beta testing’ and ‘QA’ along the way.
by Lee Rickwood
Silver Generation Seeks to Demystify Technology at Ryerson University Silver Screens Arts Festival
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.
Microsoft’s Cloud-based Office 365 Still a Little Foggy in Beta Release
By Lee Rickwood
Microsoft’s Office 365 is a cloud-based version of its well-known desktop and office applications, with Web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Lync and more available as SaaS, or software-as-a-service. There is a dedicated Office 365 site for Canadians.
Canada’s Prairie Provinces Prove to be Digital Media Hotbed
By Lee Rickwood
Like Swiss chocolate, German cars and Latin jazz, digital media should be Canadian.
How Do You Get Media? – Government Regulator Asks Canadians for Input on Internet Billing Costs, Music Downloads and Video on Demand
By Lee Rickwood
This is your chance to have to your say, and tell the government where to go…uhh, on matters relating to digital media and Internet.