By Ted Kritsonis
June 3 is an important day if you have a cell phone contract with any of the Big 3 carriers in Canada because the CRTC’s Wireless Code makes three-year plans redundant as of that date. If you’re currently on a three-year term that started before June 3, 2013, you can free yourself from your contract without paying a cancellation fee, opening up an opportunity to avoid a new contract altogether.
Since 2004, nearly $4.5 million has been allocated to more than 100 initiatives under the Program. Those are positive indicators, yet they pale in number, significance and seeming impact when compared with developments that undermine online privacy and security.
by Lee Rickwood
Tough conversations that challenge the status quo take place at the crowded, busy intersection of technology, science, creativity & entrepreneurship – and at events produced by a Canadian entrepreneur.
by Lee Rickwood
By Ted Kritsonis
It’s hard to find any average consumer who doesn’t like streaming music for free. As consumption continues to shift from downloading music a la carte to streaming it buffet-style, does offering any music for free portend a dystopian future for artists and the recording industry?
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla Empowering the youth with technology has been one of Microsoft’s YouthSpark initiatives, their DigiGirlz program aims to reach out to young girls and offer them mentoring and the love of coding.
by Lee Rickwood
An increasing number of Canadian women tech entrepreneurs are heading to the high impact and high growth environment of Silicon Valley.
By Ted Kritsonis
Buying mom a tech gift for Mother’s Day is a challenge to anyone, particularly since the product should be something she didn’t realize she needed or wanted. These five gift options may be among the best — and most useful — suggestions you can find if you’re in the hunt.
Even if you think you know how much the Web knows about you, you will be astonished by what is revealed in this series.
by Lee Rickwood