Alex Coop

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

Articles by Alex Coop

Hashtag Trending – Baltimore held hostage; Google Glass comeback; Google AI bests radiologists

Hackers hold Baltimore for ransom, Google Glass is making a comeback, and Google’s AI improves accuracy of lung cancer diagnosis

Manufacturing spending billions on IoT, but still can’t patch Windows or remember passwords

The manufacturing industry is spending billions of dollars on IoT, but it continues to do a terrible job of securing those connected devices.

Hashtag Trending – Collision in Toronto; Digital Charter; U.S. delays Huawei blacklisting

Thousands descend upon Toronto’s Collision technology conference, Canada announces its new Digital Charter to bolster privacy and security, and the U.S. says it will delay adding Huawei to a trade blacklist for 90 days.

What’s the most popular public cloud provider in Canada? CanadianCIO Census 2019 seeks the answer

An early look at the responses coming in for ITWC's 2019 CanadianCIO Census shows some good news - budget increases look higher than in...

Lenovo to launch ‘biggest edge to cloud’ portfolio in its history

New event, new strategy Before announcing a slew of new devices and a midmarket laptop, Art Hu, senior vice-president and CIO for Lenovo, told audience...

Details mum as Lenovo unveils the foldable ThinkPad X1 laptop

Orlando --- Lenovo briefly paraded its latest innovation, a foldable ThinkPad X1 laptop, in front of reporters during its annual Transform 3.0 at Accelerate...

Hashtag Trending – Google announces new smartphones, better Google Assistant and Google Lens

Google releases Pixel 3a and 3a XL smartphones, upgrades Google Assistant, and improves Google Lens.

Hashtag Trending – Canadians distrust social media; Super Micro moves production; Amazon’s delivery network dominates

Canadians are leery of social media, but not as much as the U.S., according to a new report, Super Micro is moving production away from China, and Amazon is ready to make one-day shipping the default for Prime members.

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