Sunday October 16: Thought Wired – technology for those with disabilities

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Oct 28, 2016

One thing that most of us take for granted is the fact that we can function without too many issues. But we should also stop for a moment and consider those around us who may not, for whatever reason, be able to function as we might. The good people at Thought Wired, led by CEO Dmitry Selitskiy, have done exactly that, and their efforts have been so outstanding...

Back to School 2016

Back to School 2016

Jan 19, 2016

2016 is well and truly with us, and we find that we just a week or so away from the start of the new school year. With that in mind, many parents need to go and buy devices for their children, and these devices may range from phones and tablets through to laptops. We have spoken with Pip Cleaves, who is the parent and Senior Education Consultant at Design,...

Motorola Concept Car For Police

Motorola Concept Car For Police

Jun 8, 2014

I recently had the opportunity to see Motorola’s new concept car for the Police. This vehicle incorporates and combines a number of different technologies, such as video, audio, and wearable computing, within the one unified interface, and as well as see the vehicle, I was able to spend some time with Motorola’s Stephen Crutchfield and learn, first...

AVG’s Michael McKinnon on Password Reuse

AVG’s Michael McKinnon on Password Reuse

Apr 14, 2014

Recently I had an opportunity to chat with AVG’s security expert about password reuse, and why it’s really a good idea. In this two part chat with Michael, we explore ways to get ensure that, in dealing with the myriad of different passwords that we all need to have these days, we can try to have passwords that are unique for each site that we visit,...

AVG’s Michael McKinnon on BitCoin

AVG’s Michael McKinnon on BitCoin

Mar 9, 2014

There’s been a lot of discussion recently surrounding the so-called virtual currency, BitCoin. But what, exactly, is it, and how does it work? Gary turned to AVG’s Michael McKinnon to find out more about this, including how to mine your own BitCoins, and how to get rich really quickly. Or perhaps not. AVG’s Michael McKinnon explains...

Luke Power from Avaya talking about the Sochi Olympics Infrastructure setup

Luke Power from Avaya talking about the Sochi Olympics Infrastructure setup

Mar 2, 2014

For the recently concluded Sochi Olympics, locally based Avaya Technologies were selected to handle the communications infrastructure underlying the whole event. To be clear, this means that they were tasked with building, managing and maintaining all facets of communications during the event: TV, phone, internet, scoreboards, and a whole lot more. In this...