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The largest consumer tech trade show in the world pops off today in Las Vegas, and what better way to prepare for the big week than with a rousing episode of Hashtag Trending.
The iPhone X may be too expensive and too fragile, Microsoft is teaming up with Qualcomm, and Amazon Prime Video lands on Apple TV.
Google has once again pulled YouTube from Amazon services such as FireTV and plans to appoint a staff of 10,000 to weed out extremist content on YouTube, and Android 8.1 is out today.
The text message celebrates a milestone birthday, Google’s AI built its own AI child, and Ford workers are testing superstrong exoskeletons.
Amazon Echo ships to Canada. Free unlocked smartphones for all! And Bitcoin is now available on a government-backed exchange.
WhatsApp was down for a few minutes and apparently that’s a big deal. Alberta is getting tough in the battle against ticket-buying bots. And Amazon’s Alexa might just be your newest colleague.
Your MacBook’s password protection has been compromised. Canada’s cloud software industry shows signs of maturity. And SnapChat unveils its biggest redesign ever.
The bids for Amazon’s second headquarters may be going too far, Apple is offering free coding sessions at all of its stores, and you can now shop on eBay with your smart speaker.
Cyber Monday 2017 could set new records, Jeff Bezos breaks the $100 billion barrier, and Bitcoin surges – both in price and energy consumption.
The fight over net neutrality heats up, Amazon is spending the week in Las Vegas, and it’s the biggest online shopping day of the year.
Justin Trudeau speaks out against the U.S. plan to reverse net neutrality. Elon Musk delivers a big battery to win a big bet. And some hot Black Friday deals on tech gadgets.
Nov. 23, 2017 - Uber paid hackers after a massive data breach, Apple buying into VR/AR with acquisition by IT World Canada
The Federal Communications Commission is looking to repeal net neutrality, Google is collecting location data from Android users behind the scenes, and RBC is opening an artificial intelligence research lab in Montreal.
Nov. 21, 2017 - Uber’s forming a fleet of driverless cars, Bitcoin tops $8,000, SpaceX will launch internet satellites to space in by IT World Canada
Black Friday goes mobile, Apple delays the HomePod, and researchers find a loophole in Amazon Key.
Producer Brian Jackson and host Jim Love introduce ITWC's new podcast mini-series that tells the stories of some of the top CIOs in Canada.
Meet the most adorable robot dog yet. Elon Musk has revealed Tesla’s big electric truck. And Vimeo is trying its best to make 4K resolution obsolete. What, already?
Amazon Alexa comes to Canada, Anonymous strikes again, and Forever 21 may be the latest data breach victim.
PCL Construction CIO Mark Bryant has taken the close-knit family culture at this century-old organization and extended it out as the basis for all his interactions with customers and employees. That’s why he’s a finalist for the Information Technology Association of Canada’s CanadianCIO of the Year award, given in partnership with ITWC.
We’re doing a Q&A and podcast series with some of the most interesting CIOs nominated for our annual awards program. Follow along as we meet the technology decision makers that are driving innovation in Canada. Bryant used his family perspective to transform PCL across four pillars: cloud, integration, mobility, and data analytics.
NAV Canada is Canada’s Air Navigation Service Provider. It manages 12 million aircraft movements per year for 50,000 customers across 18 million square kilometers. Before Claudio Silvestri joined, NAV Canada was handling all those aircraft movements just fine - but it’s IT department was a different story. Projects were taking off, but not landing on target. Employees were onboard, but not really engaged. Critical systems were verging on obsolescence. It took a leader like Claudio to grab the stick and right the organization’s course.
Bruce Ross is being recognized for his work in transforming RBC into an innovative and customer-focused organization. Thanks to Bruce, RBC is running agile labs, and is using cutting edge technology to improve its customer experience. According to J.D. Power, it ranks as the best of the big five banks in Canada for customer satisfaction. That comes thanks in large part to its innovative mobile apps.
While he might not literally be laying the tracks for Canadian Pacific Railway Michael Redeker, CIO of CP Rail, he's responsible for the silicon-based infrastructure that is crucially important to the smooth operation of the transportation icon.
When he joined the organization in 2012, the firm's IT infrastructure looked like its age. The legacy systems of this transportation network had been outsourced to a long list of service providers. Redeker was tasked with changing that, and five years later his organization is completely transformed. Now not only does CP Rail have an iron network across the country, it has a digital one that delivers realtime analytics across the organization.
A new report says that just five percent of Canadian tech companies have women CEOs, Apple says that the iPhone X release was originally planned for 2018, and Microsoft is doing backflips in order to find ways to stick a 3.5 mm headphone jack into less than 3.5 mm of space.
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 X-es. And Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke responds to a short seller’s allegation that his company makes most of its money by essentially operating a pyramid scheme
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 meet with the leader of China. And we hope your company's security is tighter than Heathrow Airport's.
Sometimes a digital transformation means rethinking the jobs that your IT department is doing and identifying where you're better served in outsourcing pieces of your infrastructure. That's a lesson that Karim Ramji learned in taking on his role as CIO at Kinark Child and Family Services. Coming from a position onto the board into a non-profit organization that had seen three vice-presidents of IT come and go in three years, Ramji knew that a big revamp was needed. At the same time, he needed to find a way to make sure that Kinark's mission remained at the centre of focus - helping children with mental health issues at varying degrees of severity.
There was a time that Corey Cox thought his best day at work for Tandet would be running into Donny Osmond while delivering a package, but now he's a finalist for the CanadianCIO of the Year award. For the past two decades, Cox has risen up the ranks of the transportation, equipment and power generation firm Tandet Group. Founded in 1978, the group has evolved to own various fleets of courier vehicles and provide backup power generation to clients across Canada. After helping Tandet work through a major ERP migration and even adapting systems to avoid a Y2K crisis, Cox cemented his role as Tandet's key technology decision maker.
ZTE officially registers a foldable smartphone with the FCC. A fake version of AdBlock Plus has been downloaded thousands of times. And stop the presses - Facebook is down.
Facebook uses the devastation in Puerto Rico for a bizarre virtual reality promotion, NVIDIA unveils the first computer chips for developing fully autonomous vehicles, and Dow Jones spreads fake news.
A new smartphone that respects your wallet. The secret to a long life is discovered - long battery life that is. And an easy way to make image maps.