Brian Jackson

Former editorial director of IT World Canada. Current research director at Info-Tech

Articles by Brian Jackson

Hashtag Trending – Data Privacy Day tips; Windows 10 hogs hard drive; Samsung ditches plastic packaging

How to lie and cheat your way to better online privacy; Windows 10 is going to hog more of your disk space, and Samsung makes a commitment to do something good for the environment.

Amazon Web Services launches WorkLink so you can access your intranet without a VPN

A new service from AWS gives enterprises another option to managing a VPN connection.

Europe’s ‘alternative cloud provider’ plans to expand Montreal operations

OVH is looking to compete with Silicon Valley tech giants in the public cloud market and enterprise infrastructure market, and it's ramping up R&D to do so.

Hashtag Trending – U.S. commits to extradite Meng Wanzhou, Luis Vuitton’s $1,000 earbuds, Oscars VFX nominees

The United States says it plans to go through with extraditing Huawei’s chief financial officer; a fashion icon wants to sell you overpriced headphones; and we now know what films are in contention for the Oscars - including the visual effects category.

Samsung Space Monitor keeps your desk tidy – All Hands on Tech

When I first heard of the Samsung Space Monitor at CES 2019 I was hoping it was a monitor made for outer space. But...

Hashtag Trending – Google fined $57 million; the 10-year challenge conspiracy theory; dead battery bounce

We all knew it would happen eventually and now it has - Google has been fined for violating Europe’s new privacy legislation. Was the 10-year challenge meme actually some sort of secret plot by Facebook? And the question that we really want answered - do dead batteries bounce?

North reflects on retail lessons learned before expanding Focals locations in 2019

North has discovered that to help its prospective customers the value of smart glasses, trying them on for size is the best approach. (Photo...

Recap of Intel’s CPU announcements at CES 2019 – 10nm Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, and Nervana AI chip

At CES 2019, Intel returned to make a slew of announcements about - you guessed it - CPUs. Intel’s marketing message these days is that...

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