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 //  Chris Smith  //  July 15, 2011  //  No Comments

Boeing Launches In the Cloud

The majority of the press surrounding cloud computing has been fairly abstract: how will the major players profit from the cloud, or control a user’s access to it? This week, Boeing, the Seattle-based manufacturer of airplanes, …

Montreal
 //  Chris Smith  //  July 5, 2011  //  2 Comments

The 2011 International Start-Up Festival

What is the International Start-Up Festival? More importantly, who will be attending? The roster of speakers who will be addressing the first ever two-day conference on all things start-up come from a variety of different backgrounds. …

infographic
 //  Chris Smith  //  June 25, 2011  //  No Comments

Our Top 4 Data Journalism Sites

Why read about it when you can see the big picture? That’s part of the theory behind data journalism, which is a compact way of providing complex information in a bite-size (or maybe 1MB size) infographic. …

chromebook
 //  Chris Smith  //  June 25, 2011  //  No Comments

Chromebook vs. Reality

Google’s Chromebook has only been on the market for a few days, but it already feels outdated. The idea that people would want a special form of hardware to access the cloud is an example of …

cloudxtreme
 //  Chris Smith  //  June 25, 2011  //  No Comments

Drawing a Curtain Around the Cloud

This week, the cloud computing start-ups Bromium and ScaleXTreme each announced exceptional investor funding of $9.2 and $11 million respectively. Bromium promises to deliver security services for the cloud, while ScaleXTreme specializes in helping companies manage …

Web 2.0 and the Government
January 23, 2012  //  No Comments
The Canadian government has demonstrated exceptional foresight with its embrace of the Web 2.0 initiative. Essentially, ...