Toronto Councillors Vote for Digital Rights and Literacy Program
Toronto Council has instructed city staff and managers to make arrangements for the city to sign on to the declaration of Cities Coalition for Digital Rights.
Category: Business
Paper chaos gets organized with Fujitsu ScanSnap
By Ted Kritsonis
Organizing a paper trail is one thing, but when an office is filled with paper, Linda Chu helps others put that chaos in order with a fast document scanner.
Canada Dominates Broadband List: Small Towns, Big Cities Among the World’s Best
by Lee Rickwood
Fifteen of the top thirty cities and towns on a list of broadband-enabled intelligent communities worldwide are in this country, according to the Intelligent Community Forum.
Ransomware: Threat And Containment
By Yasmin Ranade
Ransomware is a form of digital extortion, first introduced in 2007. While we may not be hearing about attacks as significant as WannaCry and NotPetya, ransomware cases that are reported indicate evolving approaches and hint at brewing underground activity – the silent evolution,
Rakuten Kobo Announces Winning Authors as it Celebrates Ten Years of eReaders
By Yasmin Ranade
Rakuten Kobo recently announced the winners of the fifth annual Emerging Writer Prize, adding three authors to Canada’s growing list of esteemed and celebrated writers.
Ontario Wants Action to Protect Privacy and Personal Data
by Lee Rickwood
Respondents to a government survey indicated fears and concerns about data breaches, identity theft, hacking, lack of personal controls on how data are used, and excessive surveillance and tracking.
Startup Ranking Strong For Toronto but Slides for Vancouver
By Yasmin Ranade
Startup Genome, which supports forward-looking regions to catalyze their startup ecosystems, has released its 2019 Global Startup Ecosystem Report. Vancouver’s rank in the global tech startup ecosystem has dropped by nine spots, now at 21.
Friends, Photos, Faces, Genes and Data: The More We Give Away, the More We Risk
by Lee Rickwood
We are called users, but in fact we are unpaid workers. The results of all our labour: giant pools of digital information about us that are bought and sold and analyzed and packaged in order to generate corporate profits, if not influence public attitudes.