Blogging: To Pay or Not to Pay
By Hessie Jones
Social Media is a medium that currently is built on transparency, trust and dare I say, integrity. But as it continues to evolve, monetization challenges its core principles.
Category: Business
Canadian tax software for last-minute filers
By Ted Kritsonis
It’s not like you mean to do it, but filing your income taxes on or near the deadline seems to be an annual habit. Thankfully, filing electronically expedites the process of getting the proper forms to the Taxman to get you a refund sooner, except you still have to decide which tax software to use.
Another Year of Living Dangerously: Sophisticated Cyber Attacks Increase in 2010, IBM Says
By Lee Rickwood
Criminal gangs and criminally minded individuals are becoming smarter, more ambitious and more sophisticated with tech attacks at home, at work, on the go.
Buy Canada, Eh? Google Wants Our Mobile Media Companies and Tech Patent Portfolios
By Lee Rickwood
The search engine giant has been snapping up some of the top Canadian tech assets and applications, buying up dynamic and forward-thinking companies like BumpTop, PushLife, Social Deck and more.
Toronto Calls Toronto Tops for High Tech
by Lee Rickwood
Toronto’s ICT sector generates more than $50 billion in annual revenues.
Netflix adds hundreds of new movies and slashes bandwidth usage by up to two-thirds
By Ted Kritsonis
A new multi-year deal between Netflix and Paramount Pictures has been adding over 350 movies and shows to the streaming service’s Canadian offering. But perhaps more impactful is that streaming video will now take up, on average, one-third the data it used to, as Netflix responds to data cap concerns for consumers here.
Family History Hits the Road with New iPad, iPhone App from Ancestry.ca
By Lee Rickwood
Warning, this story contains material that may be dangerous to beer-drinkers.
Are Canadians too polite to succeed on the Internet? Reflections on Podcamp TO 2011
By Hessie Jones
I love Podcamp. The audience includes a very engaged Toronto social media community. Professionals, students, budding enthusiasts – all come together to embrace, share and learn about the new media. There is always a new insight to learn from, a new challenge to grapple with, a new technology to test.