Eric Emin Wood

Former IT World Canada associate editor turned consultant with public relations firm Porter Novelli. When not writing for the tech industry enjoys photography, movies, travelling, the Oxford comma, and will talk your ear off about animation if you give him an opening.

Articles by Eric Emin Wood

Google’s Eric Schmidt is really impressed by Canada’s innovative ecosystem

World leaders do not intimidate Eric Schmidt. As Google's CEO between 2001 and 2011 and executive chair of its parent company, Alphabet Inc., since its...

Hashtag Trending – Russia reached 126M Facebook users, Shopify CEO responds to pundit’s claims

Facebook reveals just how many Americans were reached by Russian content during last year’s U.S. election. Bell and Virgin are already shipping unlocked iPhone...

Turns out the BlackBerry Motion is being released in Canada after all

Using Halloween as an opportunity to offer BlackBerry users a treat rather than a trick, TCL revealed on Tuesday that the Android-powered, touchscreen-based Motion will be released on Nov. 10, and available for purchase from providers Bell Canada and Telus Corp., Telus subidiary Koodo, and Saskatewan's SaskTel.

Hashtag Trending – Google’s stacking its emoji cheeseburger wrong, Cook and Zuckerberg meet China’s Jinping

Google CEO Sundar Pichai promises to make fixing Google’s cheeseburger emoji his top priority. The CEOs of two of the USA’s leading tech firms...

Telus to purchase U.S.-based Xavient Information Systems for $250M USD

Telus is reversing the usual Canadian position in international acquisitions and buying a California-based company.

BlackBerry launches new cyber security consulting service for people, privacy, assets… and cars

BlackBerry might not be the force it once was in the mobility space, but if there's one aspect of its business in which the company has maintained a sterling reputation, it's security - and its newest service capitalizes on that legacy.

This just in: the government of Canada now has an eDeclaration app

Canadian business travellers frustrated by the ritual of fumbling for a pen to fill out their declaration cards one hour before their plane lands might be surprised to learn they have a paperless option.

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