22 Feb 2014

Artem Russakovskii – Google+ – Absolutely brilliant troll advertising by DHL.

Artem Russakovskii – Google+ – Absolutely brilliant troll advertising by DHL.

A very clever campaign, it reminds me of some very cool techniques used by Stefan Sagmeister of Sagmeister & Walsh, when he created billboards, after the billboards were exposed to UV light over a period of time, the message disappeared — in this case, heat makes the message appear. Do you think this is real or is […]

21 Feb 2014

NTT DATA Named Top Employer in Canada

NTT DATA Named Top Employer in Canada

NTT DATA, Inc., a leading IT services provider, today announced its Canadian business unit, NTT DATA Canada, Inc., has been honored with multiple top employer awards in Canada for 2014. Chosen by Canada’s Top 100 Employers program, an annual competition to recognize Canada’s best places to work, the company was recognized in two separate award […]

13 Jan 2014

Accenture wins Obamacare contract after CGI snafus

In an October post on Obamacares website problems with crashing, this latest article below reveals the fallout from the debacle. The Dublin-based IT company Accenture have taken over from CGI to bring proven experience in building large-scale public-facing websites. Accenture wins Obamacare contract after CGI snafus.

30 Dec 2013

Will Self-driving Cars Become Ubiquitous?

Ray Kurzweil, Futurist, and Google’s director of engineering, has predicted many things over the years. He was the inventor of the first CCD Flatbed Scanner, and the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind. Here’s a great article in The Times on how he thinks the world is going to change — read and learn! […]

20 Nov 2013

Who’s Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins?

This is something out of a James Bond story, the sinister new website has emerged on “the dark internet” encouraging people to contribute money to fund the murder of leading American figures, including President Obama. Its founder claims that he wants to destroy “all governments, everywhere”. I first read about it yesterday in The TimesOnline. It […]

17 Nov 2013

SLAVES TO THE ALGORITHM | More Intelligent Life

Algorithms play a huge role in helping us find what we are looking for when using search engines like Google. They are also working hard behind the scenes on a multitude of software applications that we use on a daily basis. I found this great article by Tom Whipple that I wanted to share, select […]