By Lee Rickwood
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is as much about the provider as it is the consumer, and it has as much to offer the high tech industry in specific as it does the consumer marketplace in general.
By Lee Rickwood
It may be one of the hottest tech topics today, but it is also a metaphor for things unknown, unseen or uncertain.
By Lee Rickwood
Technological developments being applied in what’s known as ‘digital out-of-home’ advertising industry are bringing amazing new abilities to track and measure the audience, to trigger and enhance client interactivity, and to find and identify new customers.
By Lee Rickwood
These are much more than academic awards. Just a week after one award winning researcher notified Facebook about such attacks, the social net made significant changes to its online systems.
By Lee Rickwood
If passed by the majority government, a controversial piece of Canadian Internet legislation could require Internet providers in Canada to hand over personal information to authorities without a warrant or judicial oversight.
by Lee Rickwood
These are pretty tech savvy seniors, and everyone in the room raised their hands as computer users and e-mailers, with maybe 60 or 70 per cent of them on Facebook, and about the same having used iPhones, digital cameras or video camcorders.
By Hessie Jones
Recent news about Facebook’s alleged smear campaign against Google has brought to question the real impact of disclosure on the users, who continuously feed their personal information into a priceless database.
By Lee Rickwood
User manuals and privacy policies should get a ‘thumbs up, thumbs down’ button.
It’s not just about telling users how something works.
It’s about telling them if, how and why information is gathered about how, when and where they use it.