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Top 10 tech stories of 2010

WikiLeaks, the iPad, the BlackBerry ban, as well as Facebook's and Google's privacy bungles were top newsmakers in 2010.

Tech pirates can drive innovation

Despite their dubious reputations, tech rogues, pirates and mavericks play a vital role in the industry.

Canadian SMBs lead in use of video, social in B2B space

A study from Softchoice Corp. tracks the media consumption habits of its customers and discovers slow changes that are taking place based on the size of the organization. What marketers can learn

ZipGive turns text messages into charitable donations

The mobile fundraising platform helped raise $500,000 for Haiti relief efforts. Watch a video demo from ZipGive's nextmedia Toronto presentation.

Pirate Bay plans lawless ‘darknet’ with P2P DNS

May create secret, untrackable and lawless Internet.

Small firms dominate Silicon Valley North

A new report underlines how critical a factor small businesses are in the growth of Toronto's ICT cluster, a major contributor to the Canadian economy. Still, those small firms face challenges in finding early stage funding.

Video Rewind: Startup creates cheat-proof video game

Spongelab Interactive designs educational games, and when creating a game to teach the history of biology, they wanted to prevent a single walkthrough from ruining its value.

Canadian startups find opportunity in educational games

Whether they're aimed at teaching basic knowledge to schoolchildren, fighting social problems, or helping older adults keep their minds sharp, games with a purpose are catching on. And in a niche with lots of room for innovation, it may be better to be a small player than a big one.

Best and worst tech brands for customer service

A PC World reader's survey reveals the most reliable tech vendors when it comes to supporting products. Not to mention the worst vendors.

Whatever happened to these once mighty five Websites?

These five giants once dominated the ancient Interwebs. While some survive (although weakened) others are only kept alive by legend.

Listening to clients is secret to Voices.com’s success

Engaging clients and talents in conversation to recognize their needs is essential at Voices.com, according to founder David Ciccarelli. It's one reason the small business is contending for an award as Digital Media Technology of the Year.

Office 365 beta shows promise but lacks polish

Microsoft's cloud productivity suite has big ambitions, but feels poorly integrated and may leave admins wanting morern

Bitstrips brings comic relief to Canadian classrooms

Bitstrips Inc., a Toronto-based online comics Website where even a person who can't draw a straight line can become a cartoonist, finds its DIY cartoon strips are a hit with grade school students learning to read and write.

Video Rewind: David Suzuki gets fired up about green IT

The famous Canadian environmentalist talks about employee-driven techniques to saving power in the workplace, and the importance of proper IT products disposal.

Forget quad-core CPUs – Intel predicts 1,000 cores possible

An Intel supercomputer sporting 48 cores could be scaled arbitrarily up to 1,000 cores, the CPU maker says.

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