Hashtag Trending – Sonos files for IPO; your AI might be human; Pokémon Go turns two
Smart speaker maker Sonos goes public. The Guardian writes about certain tech companies using humans to power…
Eric Emin Wood is an Associate Editor for IT World Canada. When not writing about the tech industry he enjoys photography, movies, travelling, and the Oxford comma, and will talk your ear off about animation if you give him an opening.
Hashtag Trending – ZTE shuffles leadership team; facial recognition technology failing test run; the cost of doing business with Amazon
ZTE shakes up its leadership team. A London, England-based test run of facial recognition technology has only…
Hashtag Trending – Facebook gave 61 firms extended access to user data; Mario app makes $60M; Samsung devices sharing pics?
Facebook let 61 companies keep accessing user data, Cambridge Analytica-style, after officially banning the practice in 2014.…
Here’s how Dell is going public again
Dell Technologies is going public again. On Monday the enterprise technology vendor and PC maker announced that…
BlackBerry and Samsung team up on new IoT solutions
Former mobile device giant BlackBerry Ltd. is extending its partnership with present mobile device giant Samsung Electronics…
BlackBerry’s bringing in more software and services revenue than ever, but still operating at a loss
BlackBerry Ltd. is still technically losing money, but bringing in more revenue than ever from software and…
Hashtag Trending – Facebook’s new eye-opening feature; Tesla sues former employee; EU measure could tax internet links
Facebook reveals a new AI-powered feature. Tesla sues the former employee allegedly behind its recent sabotage. And…
BlackBerry announces Key2 launch date
The newest BlackBerry-branded smartphone is coming to Canada in July. BlackBerry Ltd. announced Wednesday that the Key2,…
Hashtag Trending – Uber wants AI to identify drunk riders; Apple bans cryptocurrency mining; Seattle repeals ‘Amazon tax’
Uber wants to use artificial intelligence to identify whether a prospective passenger is drunk. Apple has banned…
Hashtag Trending – Net neutrality officially dead; Bitcoin worth less than half its 2017 value; Amazon under fire for Chinese factory conditions
Federal net neutrality is officially dead in the U.S. A cyber attack lowers BitCoin’s value to around…
Hashtag Trending – Toronto’s Big Data conference; Facebook glitch makes private posts public; goodbye to memes?
4000 participants will be descending onto the 6ix this week for the Big Data Toronto Conference and…
Hashtag Trending – Washington sues Google and Facebook; ZTE strikes deal with U.S.; Sonos’ new Alexa-enabled speaker
The state of Washington has sued Google and Facebook for allegedly not disclosing who purchased election ads.…
CATA’s winning women of 2018 on the value of mentorship
When Human Resource Systems Group (HRSG) founder, president, and CEO Suzanne Simpson accepted the Canadian Advanced Technology…
Hashtag Trending – IBM doesn’t want GDPR in the US; Facebook suspends 200 apps for ‘data misuse’; Trump tweets support for ZTE
One of America’s largest tech companies is telling U.S. lawmakers it doesn’t want to see the European…
Robots won’t take over the world, robot keynote speaker promises
The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)’s 2018 Discovery Conference kicked off Monday with a rather unusual presentation.…