Bell, Twitter partner in social analytics move By: Nestor E. Arellano (6/7/2013 10:57:00 AM)
Bell Media and micro blogging site Twitter yesterday announced a partnership that will involve research and analytics initiatives around social media and television viewing.
Statements from both companies indicate that the partnership will be around the analysis of social conversations gathered fro ...
‘Critical’ security warning for BlackBerry Z10 By: Nestor E. Arellano (6/19/2013 9:15:00 AM)
A vulnerability in the BlackBerry Protect software built into Z10 smart phones could allow hackers to gain access to the passwords of some devices, according to a security advisory issued by BlackBerry (TSE: BB).
By taking advantage of “weak permissions,” malicious applications will be ...
Toronto provider recovering from DDoS attack By: Howard Solomon (6/5/2013 10:57:00 AM)
A Toronto domain name management provider is recovering from a nasty distributed denial of service attack that hit DNS providers in at least three countries earlier this week.
easyDNS was a victim of an amplification attack, which sees servers of an organization used to amplify an initial small nu ...
Ontario government in email deletion scandal By: Howard Solomon (6/10/2013 9:47:00 AM)
One of the enduring myths of computing — at least among IT novices -- is you can never completely erase what’s on a hard drive.
There are forensic experts armed with super secret software, goes this belief, who can find what ever you want to destroy – if it’s not on the har ...
Panasonic Toughpads now here By: Howard Solomon (6/17/2013 9:29:00 AM)
(The Toughpad FZ-G1 is powered by an Intel i5 CPU)
Panasonic is bringing the company’s Toughpad tablets to Canada, giving organizations needing a ruggedized mobile device a choice of Windows 8 Pro and Android 4.0 versions.
The company said Friday that all three units have pa ...
Internet of everything worth billions this year: Cisco By: Howard Solomon (6/19/2013 11:35:00 PM)
Science fiction writers have fantasized about a world where almost any object is electronically connected.
IT vendors are polishing it with some facts that are happening right now, such as the increasing number of people who have cellphones, Internet connected cars and a few homes with Internet-co ...
How companies track surfers without using cookies By: Nestor E. Arellano (6/19/2013 3:37:00 PM)
It’s common knowledge that Internet advertisers use cookies to track people’s online activities for marketing purposes.
Some users are able to circumvent this by setting their browsers to reject cookies. However, digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation said some Web sites kn ...
Frontline workers not getting enough BI: Survey By: Nestor E. Arellano (6/19/2013 12:29:00 PM)
Executives and managers are awash in business intelligence information, but the benefits of analytics tools are barely trickling down to frontline workers, according to a recent survey.
As many as 75 per cent of the respondents said they believe in the value of aligning data gathering to strategic ...
Digital to overtake traditional revenues in 2015 By: Nestor E. Arellano (6/19/2013 9:47:00 AM)
More than half of the revenues of Canadian entertainment and media firms will come from digital sources by 2015, according to a recent study by tax and financial advisory firm Ernst &Young Inc.
The company said at least 68 per cent of media and entertainment firms in the country are transformin ...
‘Critical’ security warning for BlackBerry Z10 By: Nestor E. Arellano (6/19/2013 9:15:00 AM)
A vulnerability in the BlackBerry Protect software built into Z10 smart phones could allow hackers to gain access to the passwords of some devices, according to a security advisory issued by BlackBerry (TSE: BB).
By taking advantage of “weak permissions,” malicious applications will be ...
Shopify, others recruit IT workers laid off by IBM By: Nestor E. Arellano (14 Jun 2013)
IBM Canada is still staying largely silent two days after reports that it is laying off staff across North America.
Early reports said that the technology giant is likely to cut anywhere from 6,000 to 8,000 jobs globally. According to an IBM employee group named Alliance@IBM, the layoffs notices ha ...
Bell, Twitter partner in social analytics move By: Nestor E. Arellano (07 Jun 2013)
Bell Media and micro blogging site Twitter yesterday announced a partnership that will involve research and analytics initiatives around social media and television viewing.
Statements from both companies indicate that the partnership will be around the analysis of social conversations gathered fro ...
Rural users lose when spectrum is hoarded: Experts By: Nestor E. Arellano (05 Jun 2013)
Rural Internet users are losing out on broadband access because large service providers are “hoarding” spectrum, according to experts who discussed the future of the wireless industry in Canada yesterday.
The panelists discussing The Next Generation of Wireless at the Canadian Telecom S ...
Wind deal bogged down by security issues By: Nestor E. Arellano (14 Jun 2013)
VimpelCom Ltd., the Amsterdam-based telecom company investing in Wind Mobile, has been negotiating a deal for greater control over the Toronto wireless carrier for nearly eight months now, however concerns over national security has stymied its efforts.
Canadian officials are exercising caution in ...
HP’s 3Par storage system gets all-flash capability By: Nestor E. Arellano (11 Jun 2013)
LAS VEGAS—Hewlett-Packard’s converged storage product is getting an all-flash makeover aimed at boosting speed maximizing availability and cutting operation cost.
At the HP Discover 2013 event here on Tuesday the company introduced the new 3Par StoreServe 7450 storage system, which ...