Howard Solomon

Currently a freelance writer, I'm the former editor of ITWorldCanada.com and Computing Canada. An IT journalist since 1997, I've written for several of ITWC's sister publications including ITBusiness.ca and Computer Dealer News. Before that I was a staff reporter at the Calgary Herald and the Brampton (Ont.) Daily Times. I can be reached at hsolomon [@] soloreporter.com

Articles by Howard Solomon

April 2014 in review: Heartbleed hits

Ottawa stung by bug, then again by a lost hard drive. Also, what Steve Jobs really though of CIOs

March 2014 in review: On Target

The clumsy IT security at the U.S. chain is exposed, and how a federal department lost a portable hard drive

February 2014 in review: New CEO takes charge at Microsoft

Satya Nadella is in the hot seat at Microsoft, Ottawa rakes in billions from spectrum auction and a vital security recommendation

January 2014 in review: Spectrum auction suprise

Wind Mobile unable to come up with money to bid, IBM intends to sell x86 server business and the first of a long list of retail data breaches discovered

Eurocom upgrades Neptune mobile workstation with i7 Extreme CPU

Laptop now available with Intel's i7- 4940MX Processor Extreme

Here comes the Internet of Things

Quick facts about the IoT ahead of our July 30 Twitterchat

Officials urge app stores to highlight app privacy policies

Privacy commissioners from 22 jurisdictions including Canada are asking stores to point users to app privacy statements

Alliance of tech leaders vows to kill passwords

BlackBerry, Microsoft, Google and RSA part of group backing open biometrics standard

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