Quayside, Toronto What it promised: Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google, proposed a high-tech and sustainable neighbourhood on Toronto’s eastern lakeshore. Among the ideas were heated pavements to encourage year-round walking, trash-collecting robots, winterized outdoor spaces protected by plastic “raincoats,” self-driving delivery vehicles on an underground tunnel network, traffic sensors and adaptable street layouts. How it’s… Read more »
Posts Categorized: IT Governance
Ron Bouganim is transforming “the operating system of government.”
Source: CNN Date: February 25th, 2016 Link: http://money.cnn.com/interactive/technology/15-questions-with-ron-bouganim/index.html?iid=ob_homepage_tech_pool&iid=obnetwork Discussion 1) Comment on Ron’s statement that “since government is the glue of society, I can’t think of a more scalable way to have personal impact every day.” 2) “The government isn’t typically known as a bastion of innovation, but Ron Bouganim is banking on changing that perception.” Are there… Read more »
The Global Amazon Landscape
Many Amazon Associates are unaware of the full scale of Amazon’s global footprint. To cater to their global audience and because of differences like currency, language, shipping, and digital rights restrictions, Amazon has created 14 different storefronts around the world. 11 of these offer both physical and digital goods in countless categories. 12 of these… Read more »
European schools told to drop Dropbox
The European Court of Justice recently ruled that US firms signed up to what is called a “Safe Harbour scheme” with European companies could no longer be automatically considered to provide “adequate protection” to personal data they had received from the EU. The “Safe Harbour scheme” was put in place to allow European companies to store data… Read more »
The end of the inbox: Companies that banned email
Clare Burge thought that she had a good handle on her email, until she returned from a 10-day trip to Morocco in 2001 to find 10,000 new messages in her inbox. Stress took over her post-holiday glow and Burge wondered why she had even bothered to leave at all. Then in a moment of madness,… Read more »
How does China censor the internet?
Discussion: China is the third most restrictive country in the world when it comes to Internet access. By using what is referred to as the Great Firewall and the Golden Shield, China controls what its citizens can see and access on the Internet. The Great Firewall limits access to foreign websites, and the Golden Shield… Read more »
Cybersecurity bills aim to prevent ‘digital Pearl Harbor’
Discussion: Foreign spies and organized criminals have access to virtually every companies’ network, which makes the issue of cyber security a national security issue. Analysts agree that cyber criminals or terrorists have the capabilities to shut down the country’s financial, energy or communications infrastructure. Much of our countries’ infrastructure is privately owned, making prevention and surveillance a… Read more »
Movement aims to decentralize Internet
Discussion: Issace Wilder, founder of the Free Network Foundation, is aiming to decentralize the internet so that it cannot be controlled and monitored by corporate or governmental regulating bodies. His non-profit foundation is trying to prevent the actual physical internet from being consolidated and controlled by a few corporate transit networks, while also trying to publicize… Read more »
FCC scrambles to cope with data avalanche
Discussion: The need for space to transmit the growing amount of data on smartphones and other handheld devices is expanding exponentially, and will soon overrun the current capacity. The FCC is trying to come up with a solution to help solve this problem, and so far the answer is to capture the staticy space between… Read more »
Social media and the security risks they pose for business
Discussion: As more and more businesses see the value in social media applications like Twitter and Facebook, they face a big dilemma: allow these applications to go through their current network without the proper security infrastructure or block them altogether. Nir Zuk, co-founder and CTO of Palo Alto Networks, says the next big thing in… Read more »
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