Description: From mobile to social, the rapid adoption of digital technologies, devices and services by consumers is reshaping our entire economy. Source: TechVibes Date: April 4, 2014 Shoppers want selection, purchasing options (online or in-store), price competitiveness and excellent online service—throughout the buying process and even post-purchase. And they want it across all digital channels and on all… Read more »
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Is Your Profile Being Bought and Sold on Twitter?
Description: The market for buying and selling fake Twitter accounts is still on the rise, and here we find out why and how it’s done. Source: Globe&Mail Date: August 23, 2013 Technology editor Shane Dingman explains the Twitter underground economy to Hannah Sung, who was recently hacked. How does being hacked relate to the practice of buying… Read more »
Step Your Game Up, Retailers! When It Comes to Shopping, Canadians Want – and Expect – It All
Description: Canadian consumers are expecting more and more from retailers and in order to keep up, retailers must be completely mobile accessible, and tell their easily relate-able brand story through all media channels. Source: TechVibes Date: February 27, 2014 Canadian consumers have high demands when it comes to the experience of shopping, according to Total Retail:… Read more »
Could an Apple-Tesla iCar be next?
Description: It may not be too far in the future…a collaboration between the electric car company Tesla and Apple. Source: Globe&Mail Date: February 18, 2014 As Apple’s sales of tablets and phones starts to decrease this year, they start to look at other possible business ventures in otherwise unheard of collaborative industries. Watch Video Questions for discussion: 1…. Read more »
Hacking Health Hits Montreal This Weekend, Will Reach Ontario and Calgary Later This Year
Description: ‘Hacking Health’ is holding an event in Montreal with the hopes of improving healthcare by bringing together technology and healthcare. Source: TechVibes Date: February 21, 2014 Hacking Health will hold an event from February 21 to 23 at CHU Sainte-Justine and HEC Montreal, at which doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals and health system administrators will collaborate… Read more »
Keep Learning Linux – It’s The Future
Description: Linux may be 20 years old, but it’s as hot as ever in terms of job creation, a new survey finds. Source: readwrite.com Date: February 20, 2014 Everyone’s a tech company these days. From new-school video streaming services like Netflix to old-school grocery businesses and government agencies, technology increasingly drives business productivity. At the… Read more »
Facebook Hits a Milestone
Description: As Facebook celebrates its 10th anniversary, we take a look back at its origins, and take a look forward at the future of the company and what it will look like. Source: CNET Date: February 3, 2014 The social network that turned the word “friend” into a verb and popularized the “like button” is turning… Read more »
Rogers to Take on Netflix and Hulu with Launch of Video-streaming Service
Description: Rogers is attempting to compete in the video-streaming industry with an on-demand type option of network shows available the day after they are aired. Source: TechVibes Date: January 14, 2014 Rogers is reportedly looking at taking a slice of the streaming media pie. In aCartt.ca online trade magazine report, editor-in-chief Greg O’Brien says, “Rogers has spent more… Read more »
Rest in Peace, iPod
Description: With the absence of an annual iPod update this past fall, it is fairly evident that the iPod is a dying breed. Can Apple save the device that started it all? Or is there even a point? Source: Mashable Date: January 29, 2014 Apple iPod of Cupertino, Calif., died quietly this week after a… Read more »
Sci-Fi Device Lets Men And Women Swap Bodies
Description: Using virtual reality and neuroscience, this machine let’s you see, hear and even feel what it’s like in another person’s body. Source: FastCompany Date: January 24, 2014 Talk about going on a gender bender. A new machine created by a Spanish design collective combines virtual reality with advanced neuroscientific techniques to let men and women swap bodies… Read more »
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Introduction to Information Systems, 3rd Canadian Binder Ready Version Update Edition
R. Kelly Rainer, Casey G. Cegielski, Ingrid Splettstoesser-Hogeterp, Cristobal Sanchez-Rodriguez
ISBN: 978-1-119-13385-8
August 2015, © 2016
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