Tech tools for used car buying and selling
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla It has never been easier to buy or sell a used car. Various websites, services and apps make it possible to find the right buyer and seller for a vehicle.
Category: Business
You don’t need to renew your phone contract
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.
Privacy Programs Funded by Government Even as Privacy Watchers Cite ‘Government Missteps’
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
Technology, Innovation and the Sharing Economy: The Future Rewritten, But Who’s at the Keyboard?
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
The debate over streaming music for free
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?
Microsoft Canada’s DigiGirlz initiative hopes to get girls to code
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.
TechWomen Canada Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk to Entrepreneurial Success in Silicon Valley
by Lee Rickwood
An increasing number of Canadian women tech entrepreneurs are heading to the high impact and high growth environment of Silicon Valley.
6 tech gifts that make sense for Mother’s Day
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.