Technology

Canada’s more relaxed rules helping clear runway for industry’s development

Before dining at a restaurant for the first time, wary patrons are often prone to jumping on their smartphones to check out online reviews on services like Yelp or Urban Spoon.

It’s taken three years, but dropped calls and unsent text message are now a thing of the past for Wind Mobile customers travelling on the Canada Line.

Complaints against Canadian telecom providers have dropped 8.5% to 5,468 in the previous six months ending in January, according to the first mid-year report from the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS).

ACL Services and other partner companies in Metro Vancouver plan to use the Great Northern Way accelerator space to connect with local tech industry startup talent

Some residents in rural B.C. may be wondering if the object they see flying above them is a bird or a plane. But it could, in fact, be a drone carrying a Superman boxset.

Organizers at major festivals and the Olympics are ditching maps and brochures to invest in local companies making mobile apps to promote their events

The fortunes of BlackBerry (TSX:BB; NASDAQ:BBRY) continue to turn as the Canadian smartphone-maker generated a small — and unexpected — profit in the fourth quarter of 2014.

POF may have cast its net a little too wide when emailing users last year

Next generation of computers capable of complex and near-instantaneous calculations – exactly what hackers need to breach network security systems