Brian Jackson

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

Articles by Brian Jackson

Canadian firms embrace Alexa for everything from flight tracking to making phone calls

Manulife, Telus, Air Canada, and TD Bank are among the Canadian brands bringing services to market with Amazon's Alexa this year.

Hashtag Trending – Alexa comes to Canada, Anonymous targets Nazis, Forever 21 looks into data breach report

Amazon Alexa comes to Canada, Anonymous strikes again, and Forever 21 may be the latest data breach victim.

Amazon boosts developer support in Canada following Alexa launch

Amazon follows up its Alexa launch in Canada with more support for developers building for the voice-activated assistant.

Looking into the face of Canada’s new technology leadership

CanadianCIO editor Brian Jackson reflects on the experience of telling the stories of the CanadianCIO of the Year finalists.

5 lessons from new technology leaders – Mark Bryant, PCL

Mark Bryant has taken family values and applied them at enterprise scale while overhauling PCL Construction's technology department. He is a finalist for the 2017 CanadianCIO of the Year.

Amazon launches Alexa in Canada with Echo devices, Prime Music

Amazon is bringing Alexa to Canada on Dec. 5 and has some special introductory pricing for its Echo smart speakers.

Hashtag Trending – Firefox Quantum, Facebook says ‘send nudes’, Reddit IPO

Mozilla releases a new version of Firefox that it says is faster than Google’s Chrome. You won’t believe who wants your nude photos - it’s Facebook. And Reddit is preparing an IPO.

Lyft coming to Canada; first stop Toronto

Another ride-sharing service is coming to Toronto to compete with Uber.

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