Brian Jackson

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

Articles by Brian Jackson

Canada’s payments modernization effort chugs towards ‘real time rail’ by end of 2019

Like other nation-wide rail infrastructure projects, the real-time rail promises to bring Canada into a new era of economic activity. But there is still a lot of work left to lay down the track and get locomotives running.

Hashtag Trending – Canada’s Growth 500 2018; Don’t kill the headphone jack; Amazon drivers speak out

Canada’s 500 fastest growing businesses, why it’s still too early to kill the headphone jack, and Amazon drivers are speaking out about harsh work conditions.

Hashtag Trending – Apple announces 3 new iPhones, Apple Watch Series 4

Apple announces three new iPhones and a new Apple Watch. With the trillion-dollar firm’s event totally taking over the Internet yesterday, this is a special episode dedicated to bringing you up to speed on what new products Apple announced yesterday - and what it’ll cost you.

Google services generated as much as $18 billion in Canadian economy last year: Deloitte

A wide-ranging report commissioned by Google attempts to assess its economic impact across many of its services, from Search to AdSense, to Youtube.

Pythian to launch SaaS platform Tehama as a startup

An Ottawa-based firm is creating a new business unit dedicated to a remote workforce collaboration platform.

Canadian telematics firm Geotab doubles down on data services as it finds U.S. growth

This Canadian telematics firm has harnessed cloud services to create a realtime data service for its fleet customers and is launching a new smart cities service as well.

All Hands on Tech – BlackBerry Key2 review after six weeks

Watch our video reviewing the BlackBerry Key 2 smartphone.

Cyber Security Today: Restaurants Canada offers security assessments; Microsoft’s SoC of the future; Medical devices at risk

Canadian restaurants are offered a security assessment service, Microsoft has a new theory about how security operation centres should be designed, and how hacking medical devices poses the risk of killing hospital patients.

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