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Alimentation Couche-Tard and McGill University launch retail tech lab

Written by Catherine Morin Editor for Direction Informatique In a joint effort to transform customer experience at a critical time for retailers, Alimentation Couche-Tard and McGill University have launched a retail innovation laboratory

Published on: January 26th, 2021 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – Ranting about printers; AI camera snafu; A Google Drive scam

Reddit rants about printers, an AI camera mistakes a referee’s bald head as the ball leading to a very different viewing experience, and a Google Drive scam is making its rounds. It’s all

Published on: November 2nd, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Adobe announces Creative Cloud updates, and an iPad version of Illustrator

Written by Catherine Morin Editor for Direction Informatique At its annual MAX conference this week, Adobe introduced new features for Creative Cloud, with updates available for Fresco, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD and Lightroom. Mala

Published on: October 23rd, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – CenturyLink outage; Apple and Tesla stocks split; Getting chatty about algorithms

A U.S.-based internet service provider suffers a major outage over the weekend and it can be traced back to Mississauga, everyone is going bananas after Apple and Tesla stocks split, and LinkedIn gets

Published on: September 1st, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – TikTok chief quits 100 days in; Apple makes advertising harder; Scots Wikipedia snafu

TikTok’s CEO steps down after 100 days in office, Apple is making it harder for Facebook to advertise, and in a shocking turn of events, it turns out Scots version of Wikipedia was

Published on: August 28th, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – TikTok suing the U.S.; Apple and WordPress lock horns; PIPEDA chatter on Reddit

TikTok says it’s planning to sue the Trump administration, Apple and WordPress lock horns after Apple gets a little greedy, and a story about PIPEDA and Tim Hortons catches fire on Reddit. It’s

Published on: August 24th, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – TikTok suing the U.S.; Apple and WordPress lock horns; PIPEDA chatter on Reddit

TikTok says it’s planning to sue the Trump administration, Apple and WordPress lock horns after Apple gets a little greedy, and a story about PIPEDA and Tim Hortons catches fire on Reddit. It’s

Published on: August 24th, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – Snowden back in the news; Ontario’s $100K bid for new talent; Fortnite hits Apple with Epic ad

Donald Trump says he is considering pardoning whistleblower Edward Snowden, Ontario makes a bid for Silicon Valley talent, and Fortnite throws a counterpunch at Apple. It’s all the tech news that’s popular right

Published on: August 17th, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – Bill Gates sits down with Bloomberg; Alexa bug draws concerns; Sidewalk Labs and Toronto’s proposed smart city in retrospect

Bill Gates sits down for a one-on-one with Bloomberg, it turns out Alexa’s web services had bugs that a hacker could have exploited to grab a target's entire voice history, and a story

Published on: August 14th, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – Amazon eyeing Sears and JCPenney; Google Home snooping; A new app for police encounters

Amazon wants to convert Sears and JCPenney to fulfillment centres, Google Home may be listening to just about everything, and a highschool student builds an app that records your interaction with police and

Published on: August 11th, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – Reddit gets hacked; Facebook doubles down on WFH; Holograms over Zoom

A massive hack hits Reddit, Facebook doubles down on its work from home policy, and Zoom’s old news - it’s all about holograms now. It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now.

Published on: August 10th, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – Google ends Pixel 4; cell service outage in eastern Canada; Excel dates human genes

Google discontinues its flagship smartphones, residents in eastern Canada were hit with a cell service outage yesterday, scientists renamed 27 human genes to appease Excel. It’s all the tech news that’s popular right

Published on: August 7th, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – Microsoft confirms interest in scooping up TikTok; Big tech CEOs get richer during COVID; NASA astronauts return home

Microsoft confirms its interest to buy TikTok, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos added billions to their bank accounts during the height of the pandemic, and NASA astronauts return home after a critical SpaceX

Published on: August 4th, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – iPhone 11s in India; Windows 95 PC inside Minecraft; Siemens doubles down on WFH

Apple shifts some of its manufacturing to India, a new mod allows players to run Windows 95 PC inside Minecraft, and multinational conglomerate Siemens is doubling down on its work from home policies.

Published on: July 27th, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca

Hashtag Trending – Facebook’s response to TikTok: Jeff Bezos $13B richer; Elon Musk’s Neuralink

Facebook’s new video editing app looks to compete with TikTok, in a single day Jeff Bezos got a $13 billion dollars richer, and Elon Musk’s upcoming chip has a music listening feature. It’s

Published on: July 22nd, 2020 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca