Integrating Secure File Gateway with Existing IT Infrastructure for Optimized Data Security

 In today's digital ecosystem, data security has catapulted to the forefront of priorities for organizations across the globe. With cyber threats evolving at an unprecedented pace, ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of data during transfer has become a critical challenge. This has led many organizations to consider integrating secure file

VPNs Make Sure Your Privacy Is Not Under Threat

 No one cared about privacy when the internet didn’t resemble a giant shopping mall. You could create a random email with a made-up name and a password and create accounts on virtually any platform. But over the last couple of years, things have changed.  The rise of internet banking and

Huawei Canada operates at a higher wavelength, calls on competitors to do the same

 Canada’s dismal state of rural broadband service means life beyond a 75 km radius of any major city is excluded from the digital economy and its services. This is an embarrassing state of affairs for a G7 country, in North America no less, and the one in which Alexander Graham

Marching backwards into the 5G future

 Madison Avenue’s knack for hyperbole would have us believe that every new product is revolutionary rather than a mere upgrade. Bells and whistles do not a revolution make, as in; so what if my refrigerator spits out ice? Automobile basics have not really changed since the Model-T, nor has assembly

Is Canada’s Net Neutrality in Danger?

 Late last year, regulations protecting net neutrality in the U.S. were eliminated, causing a controversy to erupted in that country over the matter. Many large tech companies such as Google and Facebook joined a segment of the population in voicing their opposition to the policy’s repeal. The scale of the

YouTubers of Ottawa

 Earlier this year we shared with you some of our favourite Ottawa-based podcasts, so to showcase more local stars in the digital field, we thought we’d highlight some of the city’s most popular YouTubers! YouTube is the hottest place on the internet for content creators and many Canadian YouTubers have

Online gaming industry bets big on Bitcoin Cash

 The online gaming industry bets big on Bitcoin Cash, and this might have an effect on the success of Bitcoin Cash in the first place. A lot of people are not sure about the success of a lot of new crypto-currencies in the first place. However, there are certain factors

The 3 Key Benefits of Virtual Offices

 By: Michael Sanduso  The Internet penetrates into our lives, connecting people from all over the world. Due to this new, increasingly realistic and more perfect ways of interaction have appeared and such notion as "distance" is slowly disappearing. It's easier to find people who are similar in views and interests.

Shaw Creating Turbulence in Canadian Telecom by Acquiring Wind Mobile Corp.

 What Happened? Shaw Communications Inc. announces a $1.6 billion (Enterprise Value) acquisition of Wind Mobile Corp., a privately held wireless carrier with subscribers and infrastructure in Ontario, Alberta & British Columbia. Wind has earned expected revenue of $485 million in 2015, implying Shaw is paying a multiple of 3.3x estimated revenue. With this

A Plan for a Vibrant and Sustainable CBC

 The Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications has released a report on the future of the CBC. I was a part of that study, but I could not support the report. Some Conservative members of the committee spent too much time denouncing the CBC and not enough time on

An Eye for a Picture

 Even if you have a good eye for images and detail you can still make some basic mistakes once you try to put things down on paper. If you are learning to draw or paint and teaching yourself, perhaps with the aid of the Internet you may find it difficult

So Far, Yet So Close: How Social Media is Changing Intimacy

 When social media transformed the word ‘friend’ into a verb, we knew something was up. Social media has, naturally, had a huge impact on the way we form, maintain and view our our relationships with friends and family. At the same time, we now have a seemingly instant connection to

The Medium Is Still the Message: The Internet to Thank for Annoying Social Movements

 Being a decent person is now more complicated than ever--at least Social Justice Warriors (SJW) might have you thinking so. Around 2009, SJW began making their presence known on Tumblr and Live Journal, exposing issues like rape culture and male privilege that were previously flying under the radar. Theses new

Drones: Non-Military Uses

 Photo courtesy of Don McCullough. When one thinks of drones, they usually think of military drones, used for stealth surveillance. However, the world of drones is quickly expanding beyond its initial military uses to new and exciting areas. The Federal Aviation Administration estimates there could be up to 7,500 commercial drones

The Most Valuable Commodity in Health Care

 In Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street, Gordon Gekko, the ruthless corporate raider played by Michael Douglas, explains that when picking stocks, “the most valuable commodity I know of is information.” This same mantra should apply when it comes to the serious business of making health care decisions — but

A Midwinter’s Bite of the Big Apple

 Got the winter blues or a little cabin fever? Well here’s the cure: New York City. David Letterman is right when he calls it the greatest city in the world. It is. Put aside the fact that it is the commerce centre of the universe or that its storied history

An interview with Russian Ambassador to Canada Georiy Mamedov

 Ottawa Life will takes you into the heart of the new Russia. We will look at the business opportunities, bilateral relations, cultural and arts scene, and tourism potential and get the pulse of a country very similar to our own. We begin our series with Russia's man in Canada, Ambassador

JAWS Technologies bites back against e-criminals

 Seldom does a company offer a cash prize to anyone who can prove its product is defective. But that's what JAWS Technologies Inc. did in 1998, to demonstrate that its 4096-bit encryption key was virtually unbreakable. JAWS offered US$5 million to anyone who could break the code. Of 569 hackers