A fundamental economic shift is Toronto downtown is benefiting from ‘Hyper-concentration’ of knowledge jobs in an economic shift as traditional manufacturing employment evaporates across much of southern Ontario, a new report warns, and the trend has major ramifications for public transit and land-use planning. The study, released days after General Motors announced the shutdown […]
Toronto Technology Posts
How to Secure Your Facebook Timeline That You Prefer
There’s a lot of buzz about the new Facebook Timeline feature. The new Facebook timeline makes your profile look a lot more newspaper-like and lets you take a look down memory lane in an instant. Before the addition of the Facebook Timeline, you could only visit your Facebook past by clicking the “older entries” […]
5 Ways You Could Share Your Location NOT Knowing It
Just about every smart phone out there, except for a few dinosaurs used by a grandparent or two, has GPS-based location services built into them. Our cell phones can pinpoint our locations, record and track our location history, and relay location data to apps for many different purposes. Some of the ways our location […]
Apple vs. FBI Is Not About Privacy vs. Security — It’s About How to Achieve Both
In the aftermath of the tragic attacks in San Bernardino, an iPhone belonging to Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the assailants, propelled the previously cloistered debate on encryption into the mainstream. The current legal clash between Silicon Valley and American law enforcement over encryption is hardly a new one. Apple and other American technology […]
Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on January 12 – Web developers rejoice
Internet Explorer has long been the bane of many Web developers’ existence, but here’s some news to brighten your day: Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 are reaching ‘end of life’ on Tuesday, meaning they’re no longer supported by Microsoft. A patch, which goes live on January 12, will nag Internet Explorer users on launch […]
