Recently speaking at the Interop IT conference, PayPal’s chief information security officer, Michael Barrett, stated that passwords and PINs were operating on borrowed time. Barrett hopes to replace online security keys with a setup that’s a blend…
Samsung’s launch of the Galaxy S 4 hasn’t been as coordinated as the company would like, but it’s making some amends with today’s launch of its flagship phone in Canada. In one fell swoop, most of the larger Canadian carriers are now offering the …
Today marks one of the symbolically more important launches in the BlackBerry universe: the Q10, the first keyboard-equipped BB10 phone, is at last available on the company’s Canadian home turf. As promised, customers with Bell, Rogers and Telus (…
Google’s already investing in two-factor authentication, but it’s making a bigger commitment to the security method by joining the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance’s board of directors. Founded in-part by heavyweights Lenovo and PayPal, the gr…
It’s usually safe to presume that BlackBerry will give the most love to its home country, and that’s proving reasonable with the BlackBerry Q10. Bell, Rogers and Telus have all confirmed that they’ll be carrying the QWERTY-equipped smartphone on M…
There’s little doubt that the venerable password, the internet’s primary authentication tool, is buckling under the strain of both trying to protect a huge variety of information as well as the constant threat of hackers tryin…
Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean has hit the slopes for yet another group of folks. Our friends up in the great white north who own the Motorola RAZR HD — those on Rogers and Fido, in particular — will be doused in some Jelly Bean goodness rather than snow as the update has come down from [...]
Samsung made much ado of the Galaxy Camera coming in both 3G and 4G versions, but it wasn’t clear just which carriers would let us upload photos when away from WiFi. The FCC might have just given out a big clue with approval filings for two 3G editio…
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for …
Rogers was the first with LTE in Canada. Its budget brand Fido has largely been left out of that 4G fiesta, but the gap is closing today with official plans to give the yellow doghouse some LTE of its own. The initial deployment this summer will larg…
