Can Ottawa make minced meat out of spam?

NFC the next big thing? Do it right – embed privacy from the start

by Dr. Ann Cavoukian   There was a lot of buzz about Near Field Communications (NFC) at The Future of the Internet Congress this week in Ottawa.  NFC is an emerging short-range wireless

Maxime Bernier itching to cut 2,300 small business

Lower taxes and less red tape - these are the things Canadian entrepreneurs demand and need to grow their business, according to Maxime Bernier, Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism.Expensive taxes

IT investment not priority for Canadian small business

Technology investments are at the bottom of the list of priorities for Canadian small businesses, according to a survey recently released by Sage Software Inc.The survey commissioned by the accounting and management software

Facebook Connect offers users better privacy control

With Facebook,s announcement yesterday of a new set of tools to help users manage their private data and the recent new about a Montreal-based Facebook spammer being fined $ 1 billion, we thought

BlackBerry ban unravels handset's 'monopoply' on mobile security

   I feel more than a little sorry for Research In Motion these days. Not only is the BlackBerry maker being pressured as never before in the market by the ever-sexy iPhone and

Canada’s self-employed ‘get little’ from proposed EI changes

Proposed legislation to allow the self-employed to opt into the federal employment insurance (EI) plan falls too short of what freelance and casual workers in Canada really need, labour advocacy groups say.The Fairness