Mandy Kovacs

Mandy is a lineup editor at CTV News. A former staffer at IT World Canada, she's now contributing as a part-time podcast host on Hashtag Trending. She is a Carleton University journalism graduate with extensive experience in the B2B market. When not writing about tech, you can find her active on Twitter following political news and sports, and preparing for her future as a cat lady.

Articles by Mandy Kovacs

Intel to acquire self-driving tech company Mobileye in $15 billion deal

Intel Corp. has announced that it will be acquiring Mobileye NV, an Israel-based company specializing in chips for vision-based autonomous vehicles, in a deal valued at approximately $15.3 billion.

VR will take a backseat to AR, says 3D visual effects pioneer

Virtual reality (VR) has been touted as one of the top future technologies, but one expert at the Be3D: Think Forward event, held in Toronto on Mar. 9 by Think2Thing and Ryerson University, disagrees.

Let’s talk about women in STEM

On International Women's Day, we look at the work being done in Canada's IT sector to give women more opportunities to build their careers in STEM and eventually take a seat in an executive office.

Check Point unveils new cloud security solution

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., based in Israel, has launched its vSEC for Google Cloud Platform, an advanced, multi-layer security solution to protect workloads in physical, virtual and cloud environments across any platform.

Amazon Web Services brought down by a typo

After hours of disruptions for services such as project management tool Trello, news website Business Insider and image hoster Giphy, it turns out Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) outage on Tuesday was caused by the simplest of errors: a typo.

CenturyLink launches new multi-cloud application manager

A global cloud and communications company is hoping to make digital transformation easier for business customers.

DroneGun created to fight bomb-carrying drones

In a world where drone use is becoming more frequent, governments across the globe are investing in security measures.

CRTC rules smaller mobile carriers cannot let users “permanently roam” on big networks

Canada’s telecommunications body has ordered a small wireless startup to shut down its current services for allowing customers to improperly use a more established...

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