Brian Jackson

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

Articles by Brian Jackson

Retailers and restaurants turn to Apple hardware to improve in-store sales

Apple's mobile devices are increasingly favoured for POS devices by retailers and restaurants alike, creating a new channel of technology business and helping transform the in-store customer experience.

Data centres reach for fabled 100% uptime with help of AI

Data centre infrastructure management is the lastest solution to benefit from artificial intelligence, and the benefits are now being made available to smaller operations thanks to a managed service provider.

Hashtag Trending – Canada’s superclusters, VW Arteon, Facebook Onava

Canada’s government announces where almost $1 billion in innovation funding will be invested. A new car from Volkswagen impresses at the Canadian International Auto Show. And Facebook’s VPN might be more than meets the eye.

Winners and losers: Liberal government’s picks for $950 million in supercluster funding

The federal government selected five different regions across Canada to receive up to $950 million in innovation funding.

Hashtag Trending – Robot dog frightens humans; Netflix scores major talent; Alexa upgraded

A robot dog is freaking everybody out, Netflix is making some major producer hires, and Alexa gets an upgrade in Canada.

Hashtag Trending – Youtube business insights; SnapChat’s new competition; Amazon layoffs

Youtube finally talks about the Logan Paul controversy - on Youtube. Google launches a SnapChat competitor, but SnapChat is totally not worried. And Amazon announces corporate layoffs.

AI won’t lead to ‘jobpacalypse’ overnight, panel agrees

At Technicity, a panel discussion asked whether the benefits brought by AI will be worth the workforce disruption that's ahead.

GM brings another car sharing service to Toronto

GM's Maven service will compete with three other car-sharing services, but requires no membership fee.

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