Big Blue goes big on IoT
The Internet of Things has served for several years now as an aspirational touch point for bright imaginings around our connected future. But the...
Vitamin Y: new Cisco Canada headquarters an “IoT living lab”
Context: Cisco Canada is set to open doors this coming May on new Canadian headquarters in the RBC Waterpark Place III building at Harbour...
DMTI Spatial outlines six ways to unlock the power of location
A joint presentation by Glenn McGillivray, managing director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (CMHC) and Philip Kaszuba, president, DMTI Spatial, offered an...
Google crossing the line between work and play
The launch of Android for Work has grabbed the attention of a lot of CIOs and developers. But is this announcement enough to make...
Grooming the human element of IoT
The Internet of Things is already entrenched in the enterprise psyche. There are reams of materials to be found on the business benefits of...
Risky business: location-based intelligence tackles credit management
Change is a constant in the financial world. But over the last decade, the pace and magnitude of change have introduced new imperatives in...
Wearables
When we think about wearable computing, consumery things like Fitbit and Google Glass come to mind. But those aren't the only doodads people can...
Channeling the Intel SMAC stack
As a leading provider of foundational technology, Intel is a good source of insight into new IT industry trends. The company prides itself on...
Tieto translating integration experience to Industrial Internet reality
By most accounts, IoT offers huge potential for improvement of productivity, environmental health, and daily life, and analyst growth predictions for this opportunity are...
Classics rule
People today love their toys. Whether it’s a gorgeous car to cater to a mid-life crisis, a fancy sound system, a high-end TV, or...
Watson in commercial mode
If necessity is the mother of invention, commercialization is its handmaiden. Defined as the process whereby new products are brought to market, commercialization has...
CRM triple play
Background
Reliance Home Comfort delivers mechanical systems and services to ensure home comfort. Based in Oshawa, Ontario, the company employs a large mobile sales (100...
Girls can too code
As I take ‘pen to paper’, an announcement that Karen Sheriff has been named President and CEO of Q9 Networks, a major Canadian provider...
Windows 10
When Microsoft introduced Windows 8, enterprises reacted much as vampires do to garlic — they threw up their arms and screamed "Noooooooo". There was...
New IoT Reference Model creates common tongue
As a template for our times, the Tower of Babel story has much to offer. In the Genesis story, when united in language and in...
