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Paul Berton: People have lots to say on social media but less so when it really counts
While the last Canadian election in 2015 saw the highest turnout since 1993 at 68.5 per cent, the one before it in 2011 saw the third lowest in history at only 61.4 per cent. – The Canadian Press file photo When a caller recently ranted to me
Why Buying Software Is So Difficult
Software companies must navigate a matrix of monetization & deployment models. The software business was supposed to be getting easier. Not just the programming and application development side of the equation, but the way we consume it too. While low-code no-code platforms bid to try and alleviate
Social media watch: Feminism and (not so) fake news
When an email from abortion opponents Right Now surfaced on social media this week, United Conservative Party board members were quick to dismiss it as a fake. The email encouraged Right Now members to apply for a UCP summer internship, to learn “essential skills” to advance “pro-life legislation
Our 15-Year-Old Web Company Is Practically a Dinosaur in Internet Years. Here’s How We Lasted So Long.
This summer, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of TemplateMonster. That is a really long term for a web development business. Over more than a decade of our history, we have seen both ups and downs. The strategies and techniques that we developed based on our own experience
Social media genie won’t go back in the bottle, so we must teach youngsters to use it wisely
Teenagers in Britain are fortunate to have access to computers, laptops and smartphones from an early age. A child in the UK receives a smartphone at around the age of 12 – among the earliest in Europe. The natural consequence of this is that children spend a significant
Chasing social media shares harms public trust in science – so stop it
There is no substantive evidence that Instagram use is connected with depression. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Last month US TV channel CNBC published an online news story based on a study which it said showed that Instagram is “most likely to cause young people to feel depressed
Intel’s Broadwell Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips: So what’s in it for you, smartie-pants coders
Intel today officially pulls the wraps off its mildly delayed Xeon E5 v4 server processors. These chips follow up 2014’s Xeon E5 v3 parts, which used a 22nm process size and the Haswellmicro-architecture. Intel shrunk Haswell to 14nm, and after some tinkering, codenamed the resulting design Broadwell.
Apple makes Swift open source, so its influence will reach beyond the walled garden
As promised back in June, Apple just open-sourced the Swift programming language that developers use to build apps for Macs and iOS devices. While this might not mean much for regular folks who use those apps, for developers, it’s a huge step forward. Apple is known for