(CUPERTINO, CA) – Apple’s Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named Tim Cook, previously Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, as the company’s new CEO. Jobs has been elected Chairman of the Board and Cook will join the Board, effective immediately. To the Apple Board of [...]
(WINNIPEG, MB) – Yesterday the Frontier Centre for Public Policy released “Usage Based Billing for Internet Access and The Future of the Internet“. The study is authored by Roland Renner, a consultant who has worked in telecommunications, broadcasting, and Intelligent Transportation Systems for many years. The paper recommends that the policy and regulatory structure for [...]
(WINDSOR, ON) – Students will soon have a new state-of-the-art facility to help them study aerospace manufacturing and engineering in Windsor. A new ‘clean room’ at the University of Windsor’s new Centre of Engineering Innovation will provide space for students to learn and conduct groundbreaking research. A ‘clean room’ is a specialized facility with an [...]
(WINDSOR, ON) – The Windsor Police Service has implemented new fingerprinting technology known as “Canadian Criminal Real Time Identification Services” to assist in addressing wait times for criminal records checks. On April 4, 2011, the Windsor Police Service went “live” with electronic fingerprinting utilizing a “LiveScan” non-ink fingerprinting machine capable of transmitting fingerprints directly to [...]
(CHATHAM-KENT, ON) – The Chatham-Kent Police Service (CKPS) is pleased to announce it has been nominated by BlackBerry World as a finalist for the 2011 Wireless Achievement Awards. CKPS is one of three nominations in the Innovation in the Public Sector category. The winner will be announced next week at the 2011 BlackBerry World conference [...]
(TORONTO, ON) – For those living with aphasia, autism, and other conditions that affect speech ability, communicating with friends and loved ones can be a challenge. MyVoice, a mobile app and server system that operates on iPhone and Android devices, gives users with these conditions a voice by simply tapping words and pictures on a [...]
By Jack Layton, Leader of the federal New Democratic Party (OTTAWA, ON) – The CRTC’s ruling that sparked the recent backlash against UBB is just another example of decision-making that puts the interests of industry ahead of consumers like you. For our part, New Democrats have spoken out repeatedly in favour of protecting the needs [...]
(INVERNESS, SCOTLAND) – Approval has been given to a new wind farm capable of powering double the number of homes there are in Inverness has been approved. The 33-turbine, 99-Megawatt Dunmaglass wind farm 20 miles south of Inverness will, based on average annual output, supply enough electricity for 46,000 houses and provide jobs for 55 [...]
(OTTAWA, ON) – WWF-Canada recognizes the hard work that has been undertaken by supporters of the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) to bring it to the point of approval by the National Energy Board (NEB) yesterday, and calls on governments to endorse high conservation standards set by the Joint Review Panel (JRP)’s recommendations. Although the NEB’s [...]
(NEW YORK, NY) – Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor for Operations Stephen Goldsmith, Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) Commissioner Carole Post and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today announced a wide-ranging information technology agreement that will consolidate the City’s dozens of individual license agreements into a single one and will provide more than [...]
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