by Lee Rickwood
Internet access is seen as a basic service – almost a citizen’s right, if you will – and much like basic phone service, should be available to all. That’s the approach of the country’s telecom regulator, as well as some industry groups and consumer advocacy agencies.
By Lee Rickwood
The Wilderness Downtown, the new music video from Montreal-based Canadian rockers Arcade Fire, American writer/director/photographer Chris Milk and Google, is a clever way to promote the new browser, Google Chrome –the new browser, Google Chrome – mostly ‘cuz the only way you can watch the video in its full interactive glory is to use Chrome.
by Lee Rickwood
The app turns any compatible computer into a phone – one with a real seven-digit phone number. That’s right – you get a real phone number, not just a nickname on a closed or proprietary VoIP network.
By Lee Rickwood
Tech camps and media centres provide free access to state-of-the-art technology to introduce disadvantaged youth to potential careers in new media, while providing computer literacy skills and opportunities for creative self-expression.
By Lee Rickwood
Microsoft will do the heavy lifting, providing back-end functions like ranking search listings for Web, video and image results generated from search queries. Yahoo remains responsible for how the content looks on the page.
By Lee Rickwood
Research In Motion, the Canadian developer of the BlackBerry smartphone, is admittedly taking “a giant leap” – but with the company now entering the hard-pressed TV and movie-making business, is that leap going off a cliff?
by Lee Rickwood
Toronto should be the perfect city for it – after all, we have the most Facebook members, right?
But can social media cure political apathy? A newly-launched website is designed to do just that, and it’s called VO4TO. Say it fast and often enough, it sounds like a road to Rome.
by Lee Rickwood
Most Canadian companies say they aren’t concerned about data breaches involving their customers’ personal information. Despite the fact those same companies are collecting and holding more personal information than ever before, a recent survey conducted for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada found that 42 per cent of businesses surveyed are not concerned about security breaches.