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.
March 6, 2026 Chinese automaker BYD has introduced a second-generation version of its Blade Battery, claiming electric vehicles equipped with the new cells can charge from 10 to 70 per cent in about five minutes. The update focuses more...
March 6, 2026 The CIO Association of Canada (CIOCAN) has launched the CanadianCIO Fawn Annan Memorial Award to recognize women in IT leadership whose work reflects the late industry pioneer’s impact on Canada’s technology community. The award expands more...
March 5, 2026 Check Point Software on Wednesday launched a dedicated Canada data region for its CloudGuard Web Application Firewall (WAF), ensuring that all configurations, logs and security inspection data remain entirely within the country. The move targets more...
March 5, 2026 A small development company in Mexico says a compromised Google Cloud API key triggered more than $82,000 in unauthorized usage of Google’s Gemini AI services in roughly two days, a roughly 455-fold increase over their more...
March 4, 2026 Two Amazon Web Services data centres in the United Arab Emirates were “directly struck” by drones over the weekend, causing structural damage and disrupting cloud services across parts of the Middle East. A facility in more...
March 4, 2026 OpenAI is developing an internal code-hosting platform that could compete with Microsoft-owned GitHub, according to a report from The Information. The project was reportedly triggered by repeated GitHub service disruptions that affected OpenAI’s own engineering more...
