Category: Featured

5 of the most exciting notebooks of 2016

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Notebooks are becoming enticing again with features and technologies borrowed from tablets and smartphones. We look at five outstanding examples of where notebook technology is headed in 2016.

7 Great Tech Products for Parents

By Christine Persaud
This year, we’ll be seeing more great tech gear for parents, targeting safety, health, fun, and convenience. Here’s a sampling of five great products coming up in 2016.

Netflix’s VPN crackdown has no winners

By Ted Kritsonis

There is an irony — albeit a bitter one — when a company expands to virtually every corner of the globe, yet begins rolling out a policy of stifling access. This is the peculiar situation Netflix has found itself in this month, as it is now in 190 countries, yet begins to restrict browsing through foreign catalogues using VPN services.

Stylish New Wearables for Women in 2016

By Christine Persaud
Late last year, companies upped the fashion ante with wearables, debuting plenty of options targeting the female market In 2016, that trend showed no signs of slowing down. Here are 5 up-and-coming wearables that will have females itching to don one on their wrists

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Data Privacy Day 2016 is About Protecting Not Hiding Your Information

by Lee Rickwood
From cyber-criminality to targeted advertising, from corporate spies to commercial retailers, from government agencies to technology developers, it seems almost everyone is looking at our online activity. And not just looking: our digital fingerprints are being are being tracked, collected, stored, analyzed, cross-referenced and re-purposed, often without our knowledge and often by entities unknown to us.

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Canada’s role in the future of transportation: An Interview with GM Canada’s Steve Carlisle

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

One of the biggest issues facing hybrid and EV drivers is range anxiety, or the fear that they will run out of charge before getting to a charging station. “Having 320 kilometers of range is one way to overcome range anxiety,” Carlisle says, “another way is to have convenient charging. We need to work with other parties and partners to make this happen.”

Review: Securifi Almond+ router aims high, can’t do it all

By Ted Kritsonis

Securifi isn’t a well-known brand, and the Almond+ isn’t likely to stand out in the router crowd, but this is a device that aims to combine home networking with home automation — a first in this category. It’s a sound premise, except the execution highlights some key shortcomings.