BlackBerry is on a roll By: Howard Solomon (5/14/2013 12:19:00 AM)
ORLANDO – Research In Motion officially opens its annual BlackBerry conference here today on a roll with the launch of a new keyboard-equipped smart phone called the Q5 just a few weeks after the release having launched its Q10 smart phone and the successful debut three months ago of its ...
Dell board wants more details on Icahn bid By: Nestor E. Arellano (5/13/2013 11:19:00 AM)
Dell Inc.’s board of directors wants more information on investor Car Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management’s $21 billion cash offer for the company.
The offer proposes to give stockholders $12 per share as well as the option to keep their stock.
In a letter to Icahn on Monday, a s ...
Adobe’s subscription-only plan meets backlash By: Nestor E. Arellano (5/10/2013 11:16:00 AM)
Thousands of users of Adobe Systems Inc.’s software are taking to the Internet their displeasure over the company’s decision to adopt a subscription only model for its popular creative tools.
More than 5,000 people have already signed an online campaign on Change. org calling on Adobe t ...
Fairmont Raffles uses analytics to boost profits By: Jeff Jedras (5/10/2013 11:25:00 AM)
SAN FRANCISCO – As Fairmont Raffles’ executive director of customer relationship marketing, Andrea Johnson is helping to lead the charge at the international hotel and resort company to use analytics to create a better guest experience, and a more profitable one for the company.
It was ...
Landmark Web anniversary passes quietly By: Howard Solomon (5/6/2013 10:29:00 AM)
Depending on your point of reference, belated birthday greetings are in order: The World Wide Web quietly turned 20 last week.
It was on April 30, 1993 the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), would be free to anyone.
Although pieces were available before that, this is the da ...
Tablet computers may be hindering education By: Howard Solomon (5/17/2013 3:27:00 PM)
A little education never hurts, goes an old saying. But in these days of accelerating IT, the question of how that education gets disbursed is being asked.
Specifically, can high school students learn better with tablets – or PCs – or should they be forced (encouraged?) to take a ...
Pentagon approves devices running Apple iOS6 By: Howard Solomon (5/17/2013 3:04:00 PM)
The U.S. Defense Department will allow employees to use government-issued Apple devices running iOS6, it announced Friday, another possible knock against BlackBerry’s exclusivity in the American military.
The move follows the DoD’s decision to allow Samsung devices controlled by its Kno ...
NASA lab gets B.C. company’s quantum computer By: Howard Solomon (5/17/2013 10:52:00 AM)
(A D-Wave processor)
For out of this world problems researchers at the U.S. space agency are turning to an out of this world computer from a Canadian company.
D-Wave Systems Inc. of Burnaby, B.C., said Thursday that one of its 512-qubhut quantum computers has been bought for installation ...
A Canadian miner moves to a paperless future By: Brian Jackson (5/16/2013 5:21:00 PM)
ORLANDO -- Every day at a mine site owned by Vancouver’s Goldcorp Inc., a safety supervisor has to tour the worksite and check items off a long list of requirements.
It's a three-hour process, and it doesn't end when the supervisor exits the mine.
"Imagine that he brings back a big sheet of ...
Think internationally, Kobo CEO says By: Dave Webb (5/16/2013 1:47:00 PM)
It's important for Canadian digital media companies to think big -- think internationally -- right out of the box, Michael Serbinis, co-founder of Canadian success story Kobo, told the audience at the Canadian Digital Media Network's Canada 3.0 conference in Toronto this week.There's a $250-billion ...
Think internationally, Kobo CEO says By: Dave Webb (16 May 2013)
It's important for Canadian digital media companies to think big -- think internationally -- right out of the box, Michael Serbinis, co-founder of Canadian success story Kobo, told the audience at the Canadian Digital Media Network's Canada 3.0 conference in Toronto this week.There's a $250-billion ...
Why stick with Microsoft? By: Dave Webb (08 May 2013)
Forbes contributor and CRM expert Gene Marks makes the argument that any sizeable business will stick to its Microsoft platform and applications. There are plenty of good reasons to disagree:
* Cloud-based tools are cheaper.
* Apple's iPad has made a huge dent in Microsoft's enterp ...
BlackBerry is on a roll By: Howard Solomon (14 May 2013)
ORLANDO – Research In Motion officially opens its annual BlackBerry conference here today on a roll with the launch of a new keyboard-equipped smart phone called the Q5 just a few weeks after the release having launched its Q10 smart phone and the successful debut three months ago of its ...
No fee for Windows Blue update: Analysts By: Nestor E. Arellano (13 May 2013)
Microsoft Corp. will likely not charge Windows 8 users for the operating system's upgrade codenamed “Blue,” according to technology industry analysts.
Windows Blue is not only the codename for the update, it is also the term for Microsoft’s adoption of a faster release schedule th ...
Pirate Bay co-founder to run for EU parliament By: Nestor E. Arellano (15 May 2013)
Peter Sunde, co-founder of the file sharing site Pirate Bay, says he plans to run for the European Parliament in 2014 under the banner of the Finnish Pirate Party.
Announcing his candidacy in his blog Copy Me Happy with a post titled EUP 2913, Sunde referred to online censorship as one of the most ...