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Happy Valentines! If you heart the Internet, you might love this. The IT Crowd pronounced the “it crowd” was a UK TV show about an IT department run by two barely socially functional geeks and their luddite manager of Reynholm Industries. The show preceded “The Office” and has a similar feel but funnier because we [...]

Today, Apple and Murdoch’s News Corp finally launch The Daily, otherwise known as the iPad newspaper. Apple’s VP of Internet Service, Eddy Cue officially described the features this morning, Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011. The app was available in the iTunes store as of 12:00PM EST. It’s the first online newspaper designed for the iPad. The [...]

Recently, I found myself in a room with Charles Sirois, Chairman of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) on the future of banking. His message: Mobile is the future for banking. Here’s and example of why? Kenya is a world leader in mobile money. As a result, Kenya is to mobile money what Silicon [...]

On November 17th, 2010 I was honoured and delighted to join Tony Chapman, CEO of Capital C as part of the Social Media And Financial Services panel organized by the Israel Economic Mission to Canada. Topics I covered… Should financial institutions bother with Social Media? Is Social Media a revolution? Do communities dominate brands? And [...]

John Underkoffler is the creator of the now famous Minority Report gestural interface. The future of human computer interface is no keyboard, it’s you. In the very near future navigation happens in 3D. The system is about manipulation and navigation in the virtual space while interacting with real world objects (like your hands). Among the [...]

HTML5 is what user experience should have always been without plug-ins and the sometimes excruciating “loading…” times. Imagine never having to be confronted with another “click here to download plugin” or “loading…and still loading…” message again. User experience utopia? Maybe not, but definitely user experience relief. In the near future, using HTML5, we’ll be able [...]

And… I won’t be standing in line to buy this version of the latest iProduct and here’s why: No Flash support, just like the iPhone. I can put up with blue boxes in the place of websites on the iPhone, but not on a tablet that I’d like to use for surfing! (Not to mention [...]

Tomorrow in San Francisco, Apple will announce to the world media their new innovation. The buzz for the new device has been deafening.  It’s been called: the super tablet, the iSlate the iPad and a few more. The speculated promise is everything from thermal paper to uber multi-touch, in-the-bathtub, under-the-pillow reading and monumental media device. [...]