Video conferencing took another step with the first use of a virtual presence or “holographic” reporter on Election night on CNN.
Pulling off Virtual presence
The remote reporter, Jessica Yellin, was in Chicago’s Grant Park covering the scene as supporters waited for Barack Obama’s victory speech. After stepping into a specially engineered booth or “tent” Jessica’s “presence” [...]
Silicon Alley Insider has a interesting post entitled “Does New York City Need More VCs?.” In it they compared the venture capital situation in New York and in Silicon Valley. New York appears to have much fewer and less visible VC investors in the technology markets. In addition the article laments that the venture capital [...]
Two Fredericton IT firms have recently merged to create a powerful Atlantic Canadian provider of information technology and management services. Accreon which has 65 employees is acquiring ISOMNI and its 25 employees for an undisclosed sum. With this acquisition, Accreon becomes of the largest independent IT services companies in Atlantic Canada.
Accreon, itself created out of [...]
Are looking to listen to some new music or perhaps some of your old favourites?
Do you enjoy sharing your latest discovery with your buddies or perhaps reminisce over an “classic” tune?
Have you ever wondered if you were the only person in the world that still liked to listen to an obscure band like the Dead [...]
Do you think that data on your computer or laptop is private? Think again; especially if you travel to or from the United States.
The Power of Big Brother Homeland Security
Big Brother a.k.a. the US Department of Homeland Security has deemed that if you are crossing the border, they can pretty much do whatever they wish [...]
This week, Industry minister Jim Prentice introduced Bill C-61 which contains amendments to Canada’s Copyright Act with the intention of updating the current law to take into account the widespread adoption and use of new digital media such as iPods and and other portable digital media devices.
Format shifting to be made legal
One of the major [...]
As many people inside and outside the academic community are aware, there is a steep decline in computer science enrollments in post-secondary institutions. For many in the computer science field, including software companies such as Google, Sun and IBM this is a troubling trend. If there are no CS students graduating, who will develop the [...]
Google’s Android developer challenge has released its first 50 shortlisted applications. Which ones are interesting and why?
VMWare Workstation 6.5 beta has been released. Here is some information about it and some of my first impressions.
I’ve often been frustrated with nice PDFs that I wanted to quickly add some detail to or simply modify. Without forking out a lot of money for the Adobe Acrobat suite the only option until now was to take a screen capture and modify the bitmap.
Inkscape the open source graphical editing tool has just [...]
