Almost everyone is familiar with the powerful effects of 3D technology in blockbuster films—when done right—such as Avatar in 2009 and multiple Academy Award-winning Hugo last year (the latter was was produced in 3D by Toronto's very own Demetri Portelli).
But just imagine you could experience 3D without having to wear special glasses.
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Curiosity is a difficult temptation to resist. Some hands-on research from Symantec reveals alarming statistics about the dangers of losing your smartphone.
Symantec deliberately "lost" 50 smartphones across Canada and the U.S. in cities like Ottawa and New York. Left in high-traffic public spaces such as malls, these trackable devices were all obviously picked up by people eventually. The question is, what did the finders of these lost smartphones do with the devices?
read moreWhat happens on the internet in a single day? In short, a lot.
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Expecting a bad quarter from RIM? You may as well expect a bad year.
Last week, we reported that Jefferies analyst Peter Misek issued a warning that Research In Motion will likely miss some of its targets. Earlier this week, both Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley and Northern Securities analyst Sameet Kanade reinforced this pessimism.
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How sustainable is a business model that, for every one dollar earned through one revenue stream, the company loses seven dollars through another? It's not a trick question.
A new study from Pew Research Centre's Project for Excellence in Journalism reveals that "newspapers are losing seven dollars in print advertising for every one dollar they are gaining in new digital revenue." And even though digital advertising revenue grew by 19% on average in 2011, print advertising declined 9%, bringing the net total deep into the red.
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The economy has had a dark cloud hovering over it since 2008. But a different may just save the economy.
Indeed, cloud technology is expected to create an incredible 70,000 new jobs across Canada over the next three years, according to a new IDC study released today. Vancouver alone will grow new cloud-related jobs by 20% annually to a whopping 6,000 by 2015.
That should actually come as no surprise, considering BC's tech sector now employs more people than forestry, mining, and oil sectors combined and that 3,000 new tech jobs are forecast for this year alone. Globally, the cloud will spur the creation of millions of new jobs as the technology trend takes over the world.
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MphasiS, a $1-billion global service provider, announced over the weekend that it would set up a location in Prince Edward Island as its first near-shore operation in North America.
Just 22% of organizations have a formal mobility policy in place, according to the results of a Computing Technology Industry Association report titled "Trends in Enterprise Mobility" published this week. This means that 78% of businesses are making a huge mistake.
Numerous serious security concerns should be raise red flags for IT departments and policy handlers alike. And they are: 48% of those surveyed cite downloading unauthorized apps as a "serious concern," while lost devices, mobile-targeted malware, and public wifi networks are all also major potential issues.
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The enterprise-minded Research In Motion won't be happy to hear the results of a Harris Interactive poll conducted for security firm ESET. The findings revealed that more than 80% of adult employees use "some kind of personally owned electronic device for work-related functions."
BYOD went from trend to household staple, and fast. Which has left IT departments scrambling to keep sensitive work data secure. After all, 47% of employees access or store company information on their personal desktops; 41% do so on their personal laptops; 24% do so on their personal smartphones; and 10% do so on their personal tablets.
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RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook may have had a good week, but nothing is in demand like Apple's forthcoming iPad 3. According to a new study from independent mobile ad network inMobi, 29% of mobile web users plan to purchase an iPad 3, with more than half of those people being first-time tablet buyers.
And just as the iPhone 4 remains popular post-4S launch, preceding iPad models look poised to remain hot ticket items: 65% of those drooling over the iPad 3 are considering an iPad 2 or even the original iPad at their reduced prices. Also, despite big-scale marketing efforts from competitors such as Samsung and RIM, there are many consumers still devoted to Apple exclusively: 44% of survey respondents won't even consider any brand of tablet but the iPad.
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