Two lawsuits in federal court in California that challenge the way a popular online data-mining company does business could give consumers more privacy protection from firms that sell personal information on the Web.
Apple shareholders rejected demands that the company disclose a succession plan for ailing chief Steve Jobs, and the company kept mum on how many had backed that proposal.
For Tim Cook, the small-town football fanatic turned steward of the world’s largest technology company, it always comes back to the vision question.
An association representing television-and film-production companies says policymakers need to consider whether Netflix and similar Web services should be charged a fee to help fund Canadian productions.
Apple was deemed top of the product placement charts Tuesday after getting its computers, iPads, iPods and other items featured in 30 per cent of the top movies at the U.S. box office in 2010.
Perhaps the best advice you can get when it comes to wondering just what to say in an email sent on your workplace computer comes from Jean Chartier, head of Quebec's Privacy Commission.
The spectrum consultation is linked to this year's digital television transition as Canadian broadcasters switch from analogy to digital transmissions by Aug. 31. The move to digital has implications for broadcasting (some Canadians may be unable to access digital over-the-air signals), but the bigger policy issues stem from what happens to spectrum that will be freed-up as part of the changeover.
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History is a two-way street for Royal Roads University and the Naval & Military Museum at CFB Esquimalt.
When I left you last Sunday, the sergeant-atarms of the B.C. legislature was escorting the secretary-treasurer of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway out of the legislative chamber and into custody. It was April 18, 1917, and Richard Duff Thomas had just been found guilty of contempt of the legislature and sentenced to be imprisoned for as long the legislative session lasted "or until otherwise ordered."
It's said to be to the credit of the Internet that it contributed so much to the popular uprisings recently that toppled the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt, and are shaking other parts of the Arab world.
It was Feb. 12, a day after Egypt's Hosni Mubarak resigned and a month after Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was toppled. Algerians were ready. It was their turn. They were going to throw out President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the autocrat who has ruled over Algeria since 1999. Thousands of people were expected to take to the streets.