Brian Jackson

Former editorial director of IT World Canada. Current research director at Info-Tech

Articles by Brian Jackson

Technicity: the connected city photo highlights

Endless traffic jams, aging and leaky pipes, and a booming population that demands better service - the City of Toronto faces some real challenges. At Technicity, city and business leaders discussed how technology can help address them

Bringing small manufacturers to the cloud nets RtTech Startup Canada’s innovation award

By building on top of Microsoft's Azure platform, developing a patented way to monitor machine efficiency, and taking its product global, RtTech is building a serious business and earning some recognition along the way

Former BlackBerry employees launch new hardware startup that lets you see wireless spectrum

Cognitive Systems offers a solution that allows for sensitive monitoring of wireless spectrum in your home or office, allowing you to detect both cyber and physical intruders alike

Manulife Financial seeks startup-style innovation with hackathon, new lab

Manulife's hackathon is the second such event that it's hosted, but the first to invite external participants to take place. A CIO says it's a necessary way to evolve the company's culture

Review: Samsung’s SE650C Series Curved LED Monitor for Business

Samsung's new Curved Business Monitor will seem like a step up from your LCD flat panel. And if you're still using a CRT monitor somehow, it'll blow your mind

BlackBerry refuses Pakistan’s monitoring request, must exit country

Having faced an ultimatum since July to either cough up access to its BES servers or exit the country, BlackBerry has run out of time and made its decision

IBM explains seasonal shopping frenzy with Watson-powered app

While IBM's new app could help you with your holiday shopping, the real purpose is to showcase the open APIs available for developers to use

SAP shows it took Gartner’s warning seriously, but is it enough?

After Gartner issued a cautious report about SAP's S4/HANA platform earlier this year, the software maker has gone to considerable effort to deliver answers

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