August 2007 - Ahead of the curve

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  • The Rising Tide of Ink

    by Bradley Hughes, Senior Analyst, IDC Canada The world of printing has never been considered an exciting topic but in the past year we've seen a number of big advances in print technology. Vendors are increasingly placing bets on creating new disruptive...

  • Honeypots and the Accidental Hacker

    I was intending to post something on the book Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection , by Google engineer Niels Provos and German grad student Thorsten Holz, but I was distracted by something shiny in the text. (Is it just me,...

  • iPhone unlocked – but is it a big deal?

    By Joaquim P. Menezes - Worldwide efforts to unlock the iPhone – untethering it from the AT&T Network – appear to have been motivated by two main factors - “fortune” and fame . The latter was clearly the impulse at work in the case of George Hotz...

  • Yahoo Pipefitting

    Patrice-Guy Martin, editor of our French-language magazine Direction Informatique , alerted the rest of us to the beta mash-up engine Yahoo Pipes . Pipes is essential a design-your-own-newsfeed service, which allows you to pluck RSS, databases, search...

  • ‘Smart’ project needs smarter implementation

    By Joaquim P. Menezes - Updated on August 15 at 3:46 - I had to waste a good deal of energy – and time – trying to sign up for this “smart energy conversation” program. A few days ago I received a letter from my hydro supplier - Milton Hydro – describing...

  • Municipal Wi-Fi's emergency response

    We all watched dumbstruck the news footage of the collapse of a bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis earlier this month. What we didn't know was the developing story of how the municipality's just-started Wi-Fi infrastructure played a...

  • Pop! Goes the Weasel

    By Joaquim P. Menezes - Remember those nasty little things called pop up ads? Remember how they could ruin your online browsing experience (especially the serial pops), destroy your trend of thought as you tried to get some online research done, raise...

  • Star Trek storage

    I was never a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation -- I watched the only Trek that mattered, the one with James T. Kirk, dammit -- but I did find the concept of the Holodeck, a 3-D interactive simulation chamber, fascinating. Holograms themselves are...

  • Talking the walk – make your cell do your bidding

    By Joaquim P. Menezes In the 1965 - 70 sitcom, I dream of Jeannie, beautiful female genie (Barbara Eden) just blinks her lovely large eyes twice, and hey presto, wonders occur: a horribly messy room is instantly tidy, or Jeannie and her fiancé, astronaut...