Shane Schick

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CES could benefit from a rear-view mirror

I’ve never even been to CES, but I’m already sick of the roller-coaster.Every year we come back from the Christmas holidays when suddenly the...

Why the Royal Ontario Museum is still a technology dinosaur

At the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the name of some exhibits are more aspirational than accurate. “Early Typewriters: Gateways to the Information Age,”...

E-mail bankruptcy is just too expensive

I didn’t check e-mail very often over the holidays, and when I did it took all of 15 minutes to whittle through the 150...

Google

Douglas Merrill may be the first CIO to have his body fat percentage turned into public information. Can’t wait to see how Google’s search...

Green IT will have to wait until 2008

A lot of PCs are probably going dark right about now. Even more will be turned off tomorrow, and in the week ahead. Although...

Vancouver firm patents anti-piracy technology

The intellectual property includes technology that allows publishers of digital content, such as software firms, to market and licence software without fear of piracy

Yes, sir, that’s my data

When I decided to tell my friends this week that my wife is three months’ pregnant with our first child, I also unintentionally conducted...

Maple Leafs staff schedule shifts via software

Shifttex from Vortex Mobile will be used by the 1,700 employees who serve food and drinks at Toronto hockey games to figure out who will work when

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