Brian Jackson

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

Articles by Brian Jackson

Skimming the cream – Banks face losing direct customer relationship on the mobile channel

There's growing consensus that banking stands to be disrupted by new players interested in enabling financial transactions

Photo recap of Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book launch event

Microsoft showcased several forthcoming devices at its event on Tuesday, including the HoloLens, the Lumia 950, Surface Pro 4, and the Surface Book. Here's a photo recap of the presentation.

Banks face uphill battle to earn customer relationship in mobile payments

Banks are facing a digital attack on all fronts and risk losing out on billions of profits by the year 2025, according to the...

Pat Finerty interview: Big data analytics with SAS on Hadoop

At this week's SAS Live event in Toronto, we caught up with Pat Finerty, the vice-president of alliances and business development at SAS Canada. He...

3 business challenges faced when adopting big data analytics on an open source platform

SAS and Hortonworks discussed both the challenges of running big data analytics on Hadoop and the benefits it can yield at a Toronto event on Tuesday.

Rogers launches new ‘WiFi as a service’ offering

Rogers has kicked off a new Virtual Managed Network Services wing backed by Cisco technology. Its first as a service offerings are Wi-Fi and an app development platform.

Canadian Tire CTO Eugene Roman on securing new mobile payments app

On Thursday, Canadian Tire launched its second mobile app available for consumers to download to their iOS and Android devices. We took the opportunity...

Thunder, Lightning & the cloud: Dreamforce 2015 photo recap

Dreamforce is the annual Salesforce.com mega-conference that is held annually in San Francisco, also where the company is headquartered. Organizers estimate a record 160,000...

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