We’re at the sad, ironic and kinda funny point where people are actually embarrassed that they own a BlackBerry smartphone. The once mighty business tool and symbol of the tech-elite has become a scarlet letter of shame. Until very [...]
After almost a decade, we went through the very grown up and emotionally difficult task of raising our rates for ITW Consulting. Some of our clients (you) might remember the good old days when Jason and I were working out of Tim Horton’s. [...]
The Onion is making fun of big tech companies who talk about “the cloud.” This is fascinating to me. You know a topic has completely saturated our culture when it becomes satirized in mainstream media like this.
Everyone in our industry knew this one was coming. According to reports, “a stolen password was used to access an employee Dropbox account containing a project document with user email addresses. Those stolen passwords were then used by [...]
The recent assault on Yahoo resulted in the compromise of almost 450,000 passwords (more here). Big firm hacks like this are becoming the rule, not the exception nowadays. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were 189 known [...]
I get annoyed when people use the phrases “book smart” and “street smart” when they describe another’s intellect. Perhaps what these cliche abusers are really grasping at is the more substantive difference between [...]
We’ve all heard about the recent LinkedIn hack that resulted in up to 6.5 million passwords getting stolen. This is another shining example of how high the stakes can be when it comes to corporate information security. The lesson that [...]
Last week our team put together another great Weapons Grade Exec event at the Royal York hotel in Toronto. This was our biggest ETE yet: over 25 client execs, Jason, myself, and 6 senior reps from our strategic partner community: Citrix, [...]
General wisdom and standard moral doctrines say that everyone is entitled to their opinion, there are two sides to every story, and that everyone’s voice deserves to be heard. I agree … Sort of. Some opinions are harmful and wrong, [...]
Love ’em or hate ’em … the monolithic Microsoft has some pretty impressive tactics when it comes to the way they deal with their competitors. We’re all familiar with stories of their hostility toward open source software [...]
