Accessibility Technology Opens Doors for People, Brings Opportunity to Business
by Lee Rickwood
Accessibility technologies are helping developers and designers create public spaces that are easily navigable for everyone.
Category: Mobile
Facial Recognition Use Growing: Accurate or Not, Hackable or Not
by Lee Rickwood
Leading facial recognition tools, used for identification, authentication and crime detection among other applications, are being developed here in Canada. So, too, ways to spoof or hack such systems.
Sports Scores, Stats and Big Data Analytics Bring Whole New Ballgame
by Lee Rickwood
There’s no final score in the match-up between sports purists and sabermetric stat heads, but one group may have all the results they could want.
Big data analysts.
Best mobile apps for travelers
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Our smartphones and their apps can be lifelines during travel. With the ability to track flights, translate languages on the fly and even find hotel rooms at a moment’s notice, these are my preferred travel apps.
Is the feature phone making a comeback?
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Citing the need to unplug and destress plus longer battery life and simpler operation, people have converted back to a simpler, more reliable device.
STEM Tools Help Tomorrow’s Girls Tackle Robots, Coding and More
by Lee Rickwood
Yes, they are colourful and a little bit cutesy, but SmartGurlz robots are serious about encouraging girls to become tomorrow’s computer programmers.
CRTC fumbles MVNO decision, gives carriers the ball
By Ted Kritsonis
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) decision to slam the door on Wi-Fi-first wireless resellers — for the second time — shows how out of step the whole wireless industry is in Canada.
Review: Samsung Galaxy S9 refines the ideal of the modern flagship smartphone
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
In terms of features, the Samsung Galaxy S9’s pièce de résistance is its outstanding camera.