Alex Coop

Former Editorial Director for IT World Canada and its sister publications.

Articles by Alex Coop

Hashtag Trending – A new map of the universe; Google employees seek answers regarding fired AI researcher; Steve Wozniak starts fresh

The European Space Agency's satellite sheds light on the Mikly Way, Google employees sign a letter demanding to know why an AI researcher was fired, and Steve Wozniak is starting another company.

Coffee Briefing, December 4, 2020 – News from AWS, distributors, and MSPs on Reddit talk about IT burnout

It's a meaty briefing today - we've got updates from re:Invent, the latest tech news and chatter from the reseller community.

Hashtag Trending – US labour board dunks on Google; The dire future of business travel; COVID vaccine supply chain targeted by hackers

The U.S. labour board dunks on Google for allegedly spying on workers who were organizing employee protests and firing them, LinkedIn gets chatty about business travel, and a COVID vaccine supply chain gets targeted by hackers.

ServiceNow is acquiring Canadian AI services startup Element AI

After launching in 2016, raising US$102 million in Series A funding and opening offices across five cities in North America, Europe, and Asia, one of Canada’s superstar startups has been scooped up by American software giant ServiceNow.

Hashtag Trending – Amazon Sidewalk; Banks extend WFH policies; Black Friday data

Amazon faces a privacy backlash for its Sidewalk feature, some of Canada’s big banks extend WFH policies, and we’ve got some Black Friday data from Shopify.

Coffee Briefing, November 27, 2020 – Leadership changes, Dell’s Q3, and MSPs ask for help managing bad clients

Today's Coffee Briefing features a list of recent leadership changes, Dell's Q3 earnings, and social media chatter from MSPs seeking help with bad clients.

Hashtag Trending – Amazon server outage; Shopify gets a shoutout in the NYT; Raspberry Pi hacks a Tesla

An Amazon outage knocks out connected vacuum cleaners and other “smart” objects, Shopify gets a shoutout in the New York Times as its compared to Amazon, and a Tesla gets hacked with a Raspberry Pi.

AppDynamics the ‘centre’ of Cisco’s push into cloud and SaaS, says its new country manager

Thanks to a front-row seat within Cisco, AppDynamics’ new country manager Rebecca Leach has witnessed the tech giant go from hardware behemoth to hardware behemoth with a promising software portfolio. 

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