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.
Category: Business
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.
Developer engagement vital to Mobile OS success
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
How companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and HP engage and compensate developers on their mobile platforms will eventually determine their long term success.
Who owns social media? A Canadian Marketing Association roundtable
By Hessie Jones
I recently moderated a roundtable entitled “Who Owns Social Media? While the answer may be obvious, especially among those of us who practice it daily, it was important to delve more deeply into the topic and ask marketers, those who’ve dabbled vs those on the other end of the spectrum who’ve operationalized social media within their respective businesses.
Rogers rolls out Canada’s first LTE network
Text and photos by Ted Kritsonis
Ottawa is officially “Canada’s fastest city” after Rogers uncorked its high-speed Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in the nation’s capital. The new LTE network will increase download speeds by up to 12Mbps to 25Mbps, more than double what consumers are using now on 3G.
Careers in Technology – Wired Woman Toronto presents five perspectives
By Yasmin Ranade
What can we learn from the career experience of others? What lessons can we draw from our own experience? That was the focus of the latest in Wired Woman Toronto’s ongoing series of networking events.
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.