Alex Coop

Former Editorial Director for IT World Canada and its sister publications.

Articles by Alex Coop

Re-decentralizing search engines will improve access to information, says SingularityNET CEO

Decentralized search engines and social networks look a lot different than the ones we have today.

One giant leap for blockchain – two organizations team up to document human artifacts on the moon

Humans haven’t mastered space travel, but 413,000 pounds of our stuff has managed to pile up on the moon. That’s why TODAQ Financial and For All Moonkind are partnering up to map the moon and register all human items and sites using blockchain.

Former Canada Post exec reflects on how organization saved more than $4 million

Canada Post put the brakes on a costly migration process and instead turned to an add-on to Outlook that ended up saving the organization...

Companies struggling with GDPR deadline, according to report

More than 85 per cent of companies in a recent survey say it will take them at least three months to come into compliance with the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that will be in effect from May 25.

Hashtag Trending – PayPal to buy iZettle for $2.2B; New details about EnStream in Canada; Elon Musk’s Boring Company unveils next project

PayPal has plans to acquire iZettle for $2.2 billion, EnStream, a joint venture between Rogers, Telus and Bell is suddenly in the spotlight, and Elon Musk wants to charge $1 for his new transit system in Los Angeles.

Hashtag Trending – Net Neutrality might not be dead; YouTube is launching a Spotify rival; Microsoft announces Xbox Adaptive Controller

Net Neutrality tries to stay alive in the U.S., YouTube looks to take on Spotify, and bosses get fed up with cell phones in...

Government, enterprise interest in Red Hat and open source sky rocketing

It’s been said that making money from something that’s given away for free is next to impossible, but Red Hat and its Canadian business has turned that assumption on its head and remains dedicated to the open source community.

Red Hat Summit 2018 at a glance

More than 14,000 people, more than 100 exhibits and dozens of international speakers converged on the 2018 Red Hat Summit in San Francisco last...

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