November 13, 2012

Why Zappos’ user agreement didn’t stand up in court

In January,
2012, Zappos announced a massive security data breach that affected approximately 24 million customers. In response, users launched a class action security breach lawsuit against the company. Zappos tried to send the lawsuit to arbitration as per an arbitration clause in its user agreement. The court, however, has since struck down Zappos.com’s user agreement, leaving it without the legal protection the agreement would have provided Zappos, and denied the arbitration request.



Words of wisdom: Another look in the mirror

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November 10, 2012

Rdigitalife: It’s the technology, stupid

What impact will this technological evolution have on our lives, our relationships, our communities? Ryerson University, the Digital Media Zone, and the RTA School of Media have joined forces to find out with , a new interview series that examines the intersection of technological innovation and the human experience. Produced and hosted by Ramona Pringle, Rdigitalife takes a deeper look at the myths and realities of life in the digital age, exploring the ethics, possibilities, and repercussions of our increasingly connected lives.



PIPA and the Alberta IT firm

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November 09, 2012

What I’m stealing from the startup world

By Christine
Wong My new boss woke me up at 2:30 a.m. last night demanding that I do some work for him. After I changed him into dry pajamas, put clean sheets on his bed (the Thomas the Tank Engine ones had pee on them) and read him one Curious George story, he finally let [...]



iPad introduces computing to toddlers and great-grandmothers

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Microsoft Surface RT Review – Setting new expectations for tablets.

I’ve n
ow spent a little over 1 week with my Microsoft Surface RT. My review can be summarized simply: this device has both simultaneously raised my expectations and disappointed. Over the week, I’ve used it at work, on an airplane, in a hotel and generally more as a laptop replacement than a tablet. I’ve forced [...]



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November 08, 2012

How to successfully acquire a tech company

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The neuroscience behind elections

While “ele
ctions are won by people who inspire confidence and hope … it’s a lot easier to whip up fear and loathing. So forget the contest of ideas.”



How to preserve your cash flow

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November 07, 2012

Pitch perfect: Startups should focus on problems, not platforms

Following on
e such pitch that failed to get him into Y Combinator, Rocketr CEO Andrew Peek wrote a (not so new but fascinating) blog post urging pitching businesses to “Lay it on thick. Tell a story. Get them to empathize.” Indeed, while you may love your innovative solution with all your heart, telling your audience about the tech won’t necessarily make them care.



Motorola v3i original keypad non flex Is the Microsoft Kin 2 Worth Kinsideration?

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Rdigitalife: Ryerson DMZ’s Val Fox on collaborative ecosystems

What impact will this technological evolution have on our lives, our relationships, our communities? Ryerson University, the Digital Media Zone, and the RTA School of Media have joined forces to find out with , a new interview series that examines the intersection of technological innovation and the human experience. Produced and hosted by Ramona Pringle, Rdigitalife takes a deeper look at the myths and realities of life in the digital age, exploring the ethics, possibilities, and repercussions of our increasingly connected lives.



Nokia n85 Is Microsoft winning travel search war against Google?

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November 06, 2012

81 ways to market your mobile app from Tapgage

Consider tha
t making an application takes a lot of time, but that’s only half of it. How you promote your app will take you just as long (If you’re doing it right).



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Rdigitalife: Social capital with Paige Arnof-Fenn

Paige Arnof-
Fenn is the CEO of Mavens and Moguls. A marketing expert and self proclaimed "startup junkie", she was involved in Zipcar from the ground up, seeing it become an internationally recognizable brand.



Marketing lessons from my shoes

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November 05, 2012

How to keep the Startup Canada ball rolling

By Christine
Wong The tour is over but the journey is just getting started for Startup Canada. At least, that’s what I’m hoping. Startup Canada has accomplished a mindboggling milestone by visiting 36 cities in 10 provinces to host countless entrepreneurship events that drew 20,000 people from coast to coast over a six-month period. And [...]



iPhone 4S packs in over 200 improvements

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November 04, 2012

Rdigitalife: Kanika Gupta on social change and technology

What impact will this technological evolution have on our lives, our relationships, our communities? Ryerson University, the Digital Media Zone, and the RTA School of Media have joined forces to find out with , a new interview series that examines the intersection of technological innovation and the human experience. Produced and hosted by Ramona Pringle, Rdigitalife takes a deeper look at the myths and realities of life in the digital age, exploring the ethics, possibilities, and repercussions of our increasingly connected lives.

Soft-landing program leads to hard contracts for Weever Apps

The Soft-Lan
ding Program provides Canadian startups or SMEs that have a compelling business case to travel to an economy of interest with up to $4,000 CDN in grant money to cover travel, hotel and work space for an international market visit of up to three months. Travel is not normally a priority for bootstrapped startups, but McBride says it’s essential.



Cut your roaming fees with Skype WiFi

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November 03, 2012

Rdigitalife: Jeff Howe on Crowdsourcing

Jeff Howe is
a journalist and a professor at Northeastern University. Howe coined the term crowdsourcing, authoring a book by that title. Here, he talks about how crowdsourcing on the Internet created a new economy for people of like minds and interests, where things like karma and reputation begin to actually account for something.



Accelerated: TechStars harnesses the power of mentorship

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Apple event launches iPads, iMacs, and MacBooks to steal Microsoft’s Windows 8 thunder

With the Mic
rosoft Surface tablet launching on Friday alongside Windows 8, Apple wanted to make sure consumers still had the iPad at top of mind. Upgrading the big iPad to be faster will make those who were looking at the Surface as a productivity tool think twice about experimenting on an untested platform. For those who feel like the Surface is just too big and expensive, the iPad mini offers quite respectable power in a neat form factor that doesn’t feel too reduced. The Surface with Windows RT pricing starts at $499.



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November 02, 2012

‘Put away the cozy image of the little old lady knitting a sweater for the grandkids’

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Rdigitalife: Jesse Hirsh on the rise of new digital currencies

Jesse Hirsh
is the Co-Founder of The Academy of the Impossible and President of Metaviews.ca. In talking about the rise of new digital currencies, Hirsh explains what Bitcoin is, and how it could change the old economic system based on the idea of the nation state, for good. He says that the nation state is a relic of a past time... But the internet is now. And the idea of digital currency is the idea of value that is rooted in the present empire.



Toronto’s startup success celebrated too early

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November 01, 2012

How to choose the right Certificate Authority for your Web site

Would you se
nd your private information or banking details to someone on the back of a postcard? Probably not. A smarter and safer practice is to integrate SSL technologies from a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) who implements rigorous security policies in issuing SSL certificates and validates the authenticity of both parties. It is the CA’s job to confirm that who someone says they are - is who they really are.



Lawful access examples abroad a horror story of spending, abuse and minor benefits

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October 16, 2012

Mitch Joel on why marketing is everything

By Alexandra
Reid      In this podcast, originally created for IABC’s The Voice, I explore the vast world of marketing with digital media and advertising rock star Mitch Joel. Mitch tells us that marketing is not dead but at a crossroads, and explains why businesses (both B2B and B2C) must shift to a “digital first [...]



The ITBusiness.ca story we’re still waiting to tell

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October 13, 2012

Marketing is about more than the color of your new website

“Industry
leaders understand that marketing is more than just ‘marcom’ (marketing communications) and the role of marketing involves much more than just creating a message and delivering that message with the tools of advertising and public relations,” the trio write, before going on to get it exactly right: “Industry leaders focus first on the marketplace and identifying market problems that exist and can be solved with technology.”



Reduce automatic notifications to improve productivity

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