canada in comment and analysis
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment The first evening reception was sponsored by Nova Scotia, Canada. Mark Kobayashi-Hillary offers some ideas. A couple of years ago at a technology conference in Budapest I remember the Czech representatives making their pitch. [03 Jun 2008]
Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam
Comment This three-hour breakdown hit North America and was apparently the second in less than 12 months to be caused by the same problem - a system upgrade in the network operations centre in Canada. But there's nothing wrong with the core technology... [21 Feb 2008]
Why you should be outsourcing your data centres
Comment What if our partners built data centres for us in Alaska, Iceland, Finland, Northern Canada and even Scotland where green power flows freely? The argument for the rest to follow is now compelling, argues Steve Boyle of Sutherland Consulting. [04 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07
Round-Up Canada: a country roughly 40 times the size of the UK with only half the population. In fact, the only country in the world with higher and more dangerous levels of Facebook addiction than the UK is Canada. [14 Dec 2007]
David Burden
CIO Profile Burden is a well-travelled CIO and his previous roles include executive VP of technology and services at Qantas Airways in Sydney, when the airline went through privatisation; CIO of Air Canada in Montreal; a year working on industrial policy for... [06 Jun 2007]
ITU 06 diary - Reindeer, Green hardware and the digital divide at home
Comment Even those in more connected nations such as Canada and Hong Kong warn that there's another digital divide opening up. Although ITU is still officially on on Friday, the show was definitely shutting up shop yesterday. [08 Dec 2006]
Data theft scandal - what we can learn from India
Comment If you want the information then you can buy it anywhere, including here, Canada, the US and any other supposedly 'safe' country. Recent undercover 'sting' operations reveal how easy it is to purchase customer information from call centres. [06 Oct 2006]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: The worst ever 419 scam emails
Comment Due to the increase in demand of our products in America, Canada, Asia, Middle East and Europe we have decided to move our products fully into the above continent," he says confidently. They sit in grimy internet cafés around the globe, biting... [27 Sep 2006]
Q&A: Jeremy Verba, CEO, Piczo
Comment It was started by sending out 100 emails to individuals in Canada and has grown virally to the current user base of 10 million - four million of whom are in the UK. Three months ago, Harvard MBA graduate Jeremy Verba was running the voice services... [24 Aug 2006]
The McCue Interview: Criminal Justice IT director-general John Suffolk
Comment In recent months, visitors of the tour have included representatives of various governments and Suffolk says the UK and Canada are now the two most technologically advanced national criminal justice systems in the world. [06 Mar 2006]
Q&A: Microsoft chief privacy strategist Peter Cullen
Comment Cullen, who works under Scott Charney, chief trustworthy computing strategist, joined Microsoft in 2003 from the financial services sector, notably Royal Bank of Canada.silicon.com: Sony BMG has recently been accused of planting rootkits into... [15 Nov 2005]
Jeffrey Citron
AS Profile Vonage offers VoIP phone service to residences and small businesses in Canada, the US and, most recently, the UK, and is singled out by the Agenda Setters panel for being an innovative operation with legs, not just a passing fashion. [23 Sep 2005]
New order in New Orleans
Comment The Department of Homeland Security was sending out press releases that day about slapping Americans with passport requirements to travel to Canada, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or Fema, was announcing "disaster preparedness... [06 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Borrowing Wi-Fi is not a crime
Comment Recent court cases in the UK, Canada and the US have garnered significant publicity. Written over the mid-Atlantic, and despatched later via free terrestrial Wi-Fi from a place in the UK I had better not disclose [01 Aug 2005]
Leader: Why e-government isn't working
Leader The UK has slipped another rung down the e-government ladder, falling further behind leaders including Canada, the US and Denmark. Despite the huge amounts spent on government IT - and the laudable target of having all government services online by... [06 Apr 2005]
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