Vitamin Y: BlackBerry Experience Toronto touchdown
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BlackBerry has mounted a six city global tour aimed at educating enterprise customers on the company’s vision and product strategy for the next decade....
Waterloo Innovation Summit take two
Waterloo has no shortage of creative engineers and inspired inventors. The trick, of course, is to turn this intellectual bubbling into startup talent, which...
Vitamin Y: Google Glass Hackathon
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The second ever Canadian Google Glass Hackathon was held at the MaRs Discovery District at the end of April. Intended to inspire the...
Vitamin Y: Microsoft Canada launches new speakers series
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Microsoft has launched a series of intimate events featuring high-calibre speakers from inside and outside the company to stimulate discussion of key industry issues,...
Beyond client management
The enterprise mobility trend is a firestorm that shows little sign of fizzle. Driven by more pervasive cloud deployment, greater acceptance of mobile work...
Earth Rangers Centre tour 2014
Back in the 60s, a famous Canadian media philosopher coined the phrase "the medium is the message" to suggest that the delivery technology is...
Forget the do-it-all OS
On a technical level, Windows 8 is a tour de force. On paper, at least, it’s an incredible business tool. Its tile-based interface is...
Convergence 2014 a "customer experience" extravaganza
A new buzzword that is creating a stir in ecommerce circles, ‘customer experience’ was the catchphrase at Convergence 2014, the Microsoft Dynamics event held...
The wearable challenge
InsightaaS.com welcomes input from seasoned IT journalist Lynn Greiner. Lynn's commentary is based on a wealth of experience as an IT observer and from...
The PC in 2014: more like the windshield than the engine
In the very early days (the 1980s), PCs in business led a dual existence. Especially in technology-poor small businesses, PCs provided access to...
Avaya Evolutions Toronto 2014
Avaya mustered a mass of trending stats in plenary sessions at its fifth annual Toronto user conference to sketch out key challenges in the...
JouleX IP now integrated into Cisco's revamped energy-as-a-service
At once the source of all life and a looming threat to it, the energy beast is bucking at its tether. Virtually all productive...
Populating the Barcode of Life
What do crowdsourcing, mobile technology and DNA have in common? If you answered a unique means of gathering information to populate the International Barcode...
Avaya builds Sochi connections
A two-time champion in Olympic bidding, Avaya has won the right to act as official network supplier for the upcoming Sochi Winter Games. As...
Dell World III – a study in transformation
The "largest startup in the world" is accelerating the transformation it embarked on over five years ago. As Michael Dell noted in his keynote...
