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Re: Did the WNBA accidentally leak the Toronto franchise’s nickname?

Brian Jackson — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:38:09 -0000

There's a non-zero chance the WNBA had "tempo" for "temporary" until the club gets its official name.

Re: Shopify CMO out as company reorganizes division

Brian Jackson — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 09:58:53 -0000

Great story Meagan, I appreciated that you were able to quote the CEO's email to employees. Interesting to see how the firm has reorganized itself after going down a path that admittedly didn't pan out. Keep up the good work.

Re: Project Prospects: A systems view of risk

Brian Jackson — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:09:33 -0000

Great post Robin we look forward to more in your series!

Re: 20 ways to achieve digital transformation [infographic]

Brian Jackson — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:42:05 -0000

https://www.itworldcanada.c...

Re: Death of the headphone jack – progress or mistake? Executives weigh in

Brian Jackson — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 09:34:14 -0000

Sure, but any flight I've been on aks that you take off any headset you're wearing as you go in for landing - unless its a wired headset connected to the flight entertainment system.

Re: Google’s secret Android location tracking is latest failure to respect privacy

Brian Jackson — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:46:02 -0000

The tracking done in this case with cell phone towers is different from the "location services" you're referring to.

Re: Google’s secret Android location tracking is latest failure to respect privacy

Brian Jackson — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:45:25 -0000

It was a secret because Google didn't tell users about it. We found out because Quartz conducted an investigation.

Re: Rogers Smart Drive turns your car into a hotspot on wheels

Brian Jackson — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:55:59 -0000

Not really sure.

Re: Using Google Home not available in Canada, but works like it is

Brian Jackson — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:15:21 -0000

Let me know what cool IFTTT scripts or other hacks you set up Andrei.

Re: Using Google Home not available in Canada, but works like it is

Brian Jackson — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:03:22 -0000

Cool, which thermostat do you use?

Re: Apple’s App Store more popular than ever as security deadline pushed back

Brian Jackson — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:48:13 -0000

I wondered the same thing.

Re: BlackBerry launches DTEK60 as it forges ahead with new hardware strategy

Brian Jackson — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:49:18 -0000

No, this lead is accurate. It's the first device released since BlackBerry announced it will no longer be designing its own phones. When the BlackBerry DTEK50 came out, BlackBerry hadn't made clear that was its strategy going forward.

Re: Did high demand from U.S. crash Immigration Canada’s website?

Brian Jackson — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:43:58 -0000

I wanted to get this up as it was happening, which of course was late Tuesday night when we couldn't confirm with government spokesperople. But I looked into it for you and CTV got comment confirming that it did go down due to traffic.

Re: Toronto Canada’s top city for IT skills, Calgary most expensive, CBRE says

Brian Jackson — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:39:47 -0000

Oh you're right. Got my parallels mixed up.

Re: How a coding-adverse IT team brought Toronto’s CN Tower into the 21st century

Brian Jackson — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:55:00 -0000

*slaps forehead* you're right, thanks for catching the typo

Re: Unboxing for business: Google Pixel

Brian Jackson — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:49:17 -0000

Yes we do. Must have missed this one, and now I've corrected it. Thank you for your close attention. Maybe next time, save the snark.

Re: Wikileaks emails show Apple can still give law enforcement meta-data despite encryption

Brian Jackson — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:48:25 -0000

But was there proof we could know it?

Re: Wikileaks emails show Apple can still give law enforcement meta-data despite encryption

Brian Jackson — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:47:51 -0000

You're exactly right Mat, without a definition of meta-data we can't know to what extent privacy is at risk. But what we are learning from this email is that Apple is communicating with the White House about its communications strategy around police requests for user data, and that it's making clear that "meta-data" is available even if encryption is in place. We didn't know that before.

Re: The ‘Cicret’ is out – this futuristic bracelet doesn’t exist

Brian Jackson — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:04:01 -0000

Just like there's no proof that Sasquatch doesn't exist, you mean?

Re: Salesforce Einstein deploys AI across the cloud suite

Brian Jackson — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:02:14 -0000

Steve, we're bound to be covering Einstein more when Dreamforce happens. Let us know what details you'd like to hear about it, or what questions you want answered.

Re: Convert your company’s big data into beautiful graphs with Google’s Data Studio tool

Brian Jackson — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 13:01:34 -0000

We'll ask Google when it might open up in Canada. Thanks for letting us know.

Re: Latest Norton released puts the focus on WiFi

Brian Jackson — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:29:36 -0000

Certainly not. We wanted to be clear of the source of the survey. Clearly there's some self-interest at play from Symantec here and that's worth knowing. But that doesn't mean the data isn't relevant and most people can do more to improve their security in these situations.

Re: Amazon Web Services launch in Canada to bring PureCloud call centre service

Brian Jackson — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 15:04:52 -0000

It is hosted on the AWS infrastructure.

Re: Canadian Tire employees encouraged to use Facebook at Work

Brian Jackson — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 21:04:02 -0000

Concerns about the Patriot Act are exactly why I listed the datacentre locations here. Canadian Tire didn't mention any concern over the residency of their data. I find that many companies are only concerned about data residency when it comes to "mission critical" apps and data. But I guess you never know what someone could post to Facebook at Work.

Re: Canadian Tire employees encouraged to use Facebook at Work

Brian Jackson — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 21:00:51 -0000

Once they roll out the GA, I'm sure you can get it going no problem Mat.