Surveillance by Design: Government Rules, Business Practices Threaten Canadians’ Personal Privacy
By Lee Rickwood
We are all players in the “Privacy Theatre”, living in an online world that shows only a pretense of privacy behind the curtain.
Category: Business
Gravatar – enabling your online brand
By Tim Teatro
Gravatar enabled sites are common place these days. Blogs, forums, social media and public opinion sites can display your customised image with your content which uniquely identifies you.
Televising the Revolution – Occupy Protests Use Streaming Media Tech Tools
By Lee Rickwood
Hundreds of citizen journalists and videographer activists provided live video during the Occupations – streaming if not actually televising their ‘revolution’.
Backing up your computer’s data more than once is a must
By Ted Kritsonis
Imagine having all your digital snapshots of your family, your vacations, your experiences — essentially your life’s memories, all gone because you never bothered to back everything up. The feeling of loss, especially over something you could’ve completely avoided had you cared enough to bother trying, is coupled with shame because making sure that all your data is secured multiple times is not hard — and proves a worthy investment.
5 Companies that face challenges in 2012
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
The only constant is change and how businesses adapt to this change defines how they evolve and more importantly, how they survive.
Five Social Media business trends for 2012
By Hessie Jones
As the Cluetrain Manifesto states, “Markets are now conversations.” The voice of the individual can multiply into the voice of the majority, easily drowning out the corporate voice.
DIGI Awards Honour the Top Digital Creators in Canada – Twice!
By Lee Rickwood
Digital achievement in Canada is an ‘all-ages show’; there are award presentations for high schoolers, and for working professionals in the industry. And they are both called ‘The DIGIs’.
Are smartphones ready to replace credit cards?
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Smartphones, alreadysmarter than most people expected, are starting to take on their most critical new task yet: the ability to be used for payment.