by Lee Rickwood
In the midst of a painful economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, new income from sports wagering is even more welcome by any government, be it from taxation, licence fees or shared operational revenue.
By Lee Rickwood
Smartphone tracking strategies, some offered by Canadian companies, make use of aggregated anonymous signaling data from cellular networks that process more than 15 billion signals each day from more than 100 million devices.
by Lee Rickwood
Visual artists, computer technologists, fashion designers and AI engineers are developing tools to creatively attack or undermine today’s surveillance infrastructure.
by Lee Rickwood
Canadian tech researchers have helped develop communication systems to be used in future lunar and Martian missions.
By Christine Persaud
Who buys entry-level phones? They are appealing to a variety of people for varying reasons. The most obvious customer type is the one with budgetary restrictions, but they are likely not the primary customer.
by Lee Rickwood
Interactive multimedia stories of Toronto’s musical legacy and the powerful social impact that music has had over the years are presented in 35 individual segments at the new Sounds Like Toronto website.
By Christine Persaud
While it’s tempting to jump on the highest-end, most premium, newest smartphones as soon as they come out, not everyone has the budget, nor the need, for devices that rival the cost of a monthly mortgage payment. This puts mid-range phones in a unique position to appeal to a large subset of the market.
by Lee Rickwood
By requiring and then presenting information about an app’s data collection activities, Apple is giving us tools to protect ourselves online.