By Gadjo Sevilla
How does a device that can’t run classic desktop apps, requires constant Internet access, and has less storage space than a smartphone become the darling of the educational market? Here’s how the Chromebook’s inherent weaknesses helped make it the leading choice for education.
By Christine Persaud
If you’re a business start-up, chances are you don’t have tons of money to spare on sophisticated local back-up storage, or remote servers. And even so, using the cloud can also be a great secondary safeguard for your sensitive and important data. But which service should you choose?
by Lee Rickwood
The processing power of the cloud allows for predictive prevention, in which collected data and powerful algorithms are combined to the predict places and times where crimes are most likely to occur.
Over 85 per cent of Fortune 500 companies are using Microsoft Cloud and Canada is at the forefront of this given Microsoft’s recent investments in Canada, with datacentres in Ontario and Quebec and the innovation-focused Microsoft Vancouver office.
by Lee Rickwood
A Canadian medical technology development team is a finalist in a multi-million dollar competition to build a new device based on gadgets used in the Star Trek TV show.
The conference centre of the Westin Harbour Plaza hotel featured representatives from the biggest Linux companies including Red Hat, SUSE, CoreOS, Google, Oracle, Canonical, HP, IBM and, most surprisingly, Microsoft.
Hardware like notebooks and 2-in-1 devices are essential tools but what really powers these devices is the technology, programs and services that can help students and educators make the most of their time in class.
Mobile payments are the most dramatic example of how technology is leapfrogging older forms of banking instruments and proves that new thinking in various financial solutions can benefit everyone involved without too much of a transitional headache.