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Technology News over the Last 7 Days

A quick snapshot of what’s happening in Canadian IT News over the past week.

Cyber Security Today - podcast feature

Cyber Security Today: Nov. 21, 2018 – More holiday shopping tips; how important is cyber security to Canadians?

5 Lessons podcast for web

5 Lessons from New Technology Leaders: Jessie Adcock, CTO, City of Vancouver

When your pen test really isn’t a pen test

Compromised sites a reminder to webmasters to watch for compromised third-party code

Oracle acquires Talari Networks

Capital One’s Gift the Code hackathon helps close technology gap for charities

A lofty idea: Bridging the islands of identity

Cyber Security Today: Nov. 19, 2018 — Good news, bad news on encryption

Hashtag Trending: Apple cuts deal with a movie maker; Facebook faces more government demands; Sandberg responds to NYT

CanadianCIO Census 2018 reveals outsourcing disappointment is still commonplace

Cisco expands its Catalyst portfolio, targets mid-market with 9200 switch

BlackBerry makes largest acquisition ever in $1.4B purchase of AI firm Cylance

Why a seemingly insignificant financial merger triggered huge wave of Canadian phishing attacks

Cyber Security Today: Nov. 16, 2018 — Online holiday shopping tips

ITWC celebrates success at 2018 Canadian Online Publishing Awards

Understand how AI can change your business with this simple trick

Sophos sees small amount of progress in war against cyber attackers

Dell refreshes Latitude 7000 business laptops

Microsoft Announces Surface GO with LTE for Canada

Hashtag Trending: NASA asks Canada to continue with AI help; TSA plans for facial recognition; Uber unveils rewards program

Where are they now? Charting the fortunes of past Deloitte Fast 50 winners

North receives $24 million investment from Government of Canada

Nova Scotia must toughen protection over medical databases, says privacy commissioner

Canada Health Infoway launches campaign to connect Canadians with digital health records

Enterprises are struggling to adopt AI, Microsoft wants to help

Airlines seeing increased sophistication in bad bots: Report

Cyber Security Today: Nov. 14, 2018 — Good guys hacking, more on phone scams, a push for a US privacy law

All Hands on Tech – Anki Vector Robot full review

Hitachi Next 2018 executive viewpoints

2 Truths and a Lie: IBM’s president Ayman Antoun

Microsoft launches new cloud, data & AI capabilities in Canada
Three new Azure services are now available for Canadian data centres, Microsoft announced last week: M-Series Virtual Machines, NC-V3 Series (GPU series) Virtual Machines and SQL Managed Instances. �...

IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat gives them access to crown jewels: OpenShift and Ansible
Business opportunities today rarely involve IBM Corp. software, says Kyle Bassett, with only a few IBM-loyal customers using BlueMix requiring his company’s services. But after the largest software ...

Nov. 20, 2018 – Elon Musk’s satellite network; Disney’s Star Wars hotel; your creepy cartoon clone
SpaceX has now won approval to put almost 12,000 satellites into orbit. Disney’s got big plans to build new Star Wars attractions at its theme parks. And a new app offers to close you, at least in a...

Pure Storage launches new cloud data services on AWS
Flash storage vendor Pure Storage recently announced a suite of new cloud offerings that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS). As companies try to run applications in the cloud and data centre simultaneou...

Oracle acquires Talari Networks
Oracle Corp. is looking to carve out a slice of the SD-WAN market with its recent acquisition of Talari Networks, a pure-play SD-WAN vendor. The two organizations entered into an agreement Nov. 15, an...

Waterloo cloud management company wins Emmy Award for engineering
Waterloo cloud management company Dejero has been given the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for ‘excellence in engineering creativity.’ Dejero, which is also celebrating its 10th a...

Cisco’s new channel chief outlines what partners need to know
It’s going to be a slow process, but Cisco System’s new channel chief is adamant about steering the partner community towards a software recurring revenue and lifecycle model. Oliver Tuszik, C...

Canadian telcos have strong showing at Cisco Partner Summit
Two of Canada’s big four telecoms picked up a total of four awards last week at Cisco System Inc.’s partner summit in Las Vegas. Telus and Bell Canada are regulars at Cisco’s partner awards ...

Fujitsu announces ScanSnap iX1500 scanner
Fujitsu recently introduced the ScanSnap iX1500 as its new flagship scanner designed for businesses and SOHO users. ScanSnap iX1500 supports day-to-day business documents formats including business c...

Hashtag Trending: Apple cuts deal with a movie maker; Facebook seeks spike in government demand; Facebook’s’ Sandberg responds to latest expose
Up first on LinkedIn: Apple is dipping its toes into filmmaking and has partnered with the movie studio A24 to make original, feature-length films. The entertainment company got three Academy Awards l...

BlackBerry makes largest acquisition ever in $1.4B purchase of AI firm Cylance
Waterloo, Ont.-based BlackBerry Ltd. is making its largest acquisition ever in acquiring Irvine, Calif.-based Cylance for $1.4 billion, the firms announced Friday. Founded in 2012, Cylance is known ...

SD-WAN still a highly fragmented space, but partners say Cisco’s security integration will help
LAS VEGAS – With nearly 50 per cent of customers planning to deploy software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WAN) in the next 12 months, Cisco Systems is hoping its latest announcement to unite i...

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Hashtag Trending – Elon Musk’s satellite network; Disney’s Star Wars hotel; your creepy cartoon clone

Hashtag Trending: Google Pixel’s Night Sight, Japan’s cyber-illiterate minister, Apple Watch gets a better Spotify app

Hashtag Trending: Amazon HQ2 is official; win $2 million dollars with AI drone; Search paper docs using your smartphone

Hashtag Trending: World’s first AI news anchor; Apple, Amazon deal; reversible headphones

Hashtag Trending – Pakistani banks hacked; Microsoft uses Minecraft for a demo; Homemade flying car turns heads

The Road to Digital Transformation in Canada's Financial Services and Insurance Sectors

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The Road to Digital Transformation in Canada’s Financial Services and Insurance Sectors

THE OTTAWA SENATORS SCORE ON A CLOUD ASSIST FROM BRITESKY TECHNOLOGIES

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The Ottawa Senators score on a cloud assist from Britesky Technologies

The CIO's Guide to UEM

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The CIO’s Guide to UEM

The Top 8 Mobile Security Risks

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The Top 8 Mobile Security Risks