Jim is an author and podcast host with over 40 years of experience in the technology industry. He brings real life experience to stories about technology.
Jim spent more than a decade as the CIO and the Chief Content Officer at the former IT World Canada.
An author and musician, Jim’s latest novel, Elisa: A Tale of Quantum Kisses explores our relationship with AI in a not too distant future. His most recent albums Last Man Standing and Highland Lullaby have received a great deal of critical acclaim as well. If you are curious, you can find them and more at his music website.
January 21, 2026 A new Ottawa-based defence startup founded last summer by former Anduril executive Eliot Pence has raised $21 million CAD in seed funding as it works toward becoming what Pence calls a Canadian “defence neoprime.” Including more...
January 21, 2026 After years of rapid growth fueled by infrastructure spending and experimental use cases, OpenAI says 2026 will be the year it focuses on turning AI potential into everyday usage. In a blog post published Sunday, more...
January 21, 2026 OpenAI is pushing deeper into enterprise software as AI agents move from experimentation into day-to-day business operations. The ChatGPT maker said it has signed a three-year agreement with ServiceNow to integrate OpenAI’s AI models directly more...
January 21, 2026 CGI announced an expanded global alliance with Google Cloud this week. According to the Montreal-based IT consultant giant, its global partnership with Google Cloud has been expanded to accelerate the deployment of Gemini Enterprise, Google’s more...
January 20, 2026 A computer engineering student has built a working operating system that boots on real ARM hardware using Anthropic’s latest Claude model to generate nearly all of the code. The experimental project, called VibeOS, runs on more...
January 20, 2026 Hackers are advertising what they claim is internal source code stolen from Target. A sample of the reportedly stolen data was published using multiple repositories totalling around 860 gigabytes. While Target has not publicly commented more...
