Google closes DoubleClick merger (theglobeandmail.com)
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Google Inc. closed its $3.1-billion (U.S.) acquisition of online ad delivery company DoubleClick Inc. Tuesday, just hours after the deal won unconditional approval from the European Commission.

Survey reveals 'sobering' IT skills shortage (cbc.ca)
Monday, July 16, 2007

A new survey shows that a growing shortage of IT skills has put upward pressure on salaries as employers choose experienced workers over graduates.

Criminals enlisting teens online (cbc.ca)
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Online criminals are increasingly preying on Canadians as professional, for-profit attacks on computers grow — and young people are swelling their ranks, experts told CBC News Online on Monday.

ICANN reviews domain name sellers (theglobeandmail.com)
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

ICANN wants to ensure that registrar operators have a basic level of skills.

YouTube ordered to stop Brazilians from viewing a video (cbc.ca)
Friday, January 5, 2007

A Brazilian judge has ordered YouTube to find a way to stop Brazilians from viewing steamy footage of supermodel Daniela Cicarelli and her boyfriend on the highly trafficked video-sharing site.

RIM boss to buy NHL's Penguins (theglobeandmail.com)
Thursday, October 5, 2006

Jim Balsillie, the co-chief executive officer of Research in Motion Ltd. plans to purchase the Pittsburgh Penguins to help the struggling franchise.

Many Canadian investors cleaned out their on-line brokerage accounts. (theglobeandmail.com)
Friday, August 25, 2006

A large number of Canadian investors were cleaned out of their on-line trading accounts this week. Police are working to untangle the complex financial trail as part of their on-going investigation.

TV in the sky (theglobeandmail.com)
Tuesday, June 20, 2006

The Lightship Group wants to put a 70-by-30 foot LED screen in the sky in a city near you. The new blimp will get a lot of attention because of it's size.

TTC trip planning made easy by Google (thestar.com)
Thursday, March 23, 2006

The TTC will consider an offer by Google to provide commuters with free online trip information.

Adobe announce critical Flash Player update (blog.washingtonpost.com)
Thursday, March 16, 2006

The problem affects Flash Player versions 8.0.22.0 and earlier.

Wireless Toronto (cbc.ca)
Monday, March 6, 2006

As early as this fall Toronto Hydro will turn Toronto into a wireless hotspot.

Google growth is slowing (business.guardian.co.uk)
Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Google shares fell 13% after the announcement yesterday.

Feb 17, 2009 - U.S. broadcasters must end transmitting analog television signals. (digitaltvdesignline.com)
Friday, February 10, 2006

President George Bush signed into law new legislation setting February 17, 2009 as the date U.S. broadcasters must end transmitting analog television signals.

Google caches are not legally copyright infringement (news.com.com)
Friday, January 27, 2006

A federal court in Nevada has ruled that the cached version of websites that Google stores are not copyright infringement.

Ascalade signs deal with Skype. (globetechnology.com)
Tuesday, January 3, 2006

Canadian phone maker Ascalade Communications Inc. signed a development deal with Skupe Technologies that allows them the right to develop new VOIP products.

Nortel Networks Corp. announces its Chief Marketing Officer will leave the company. (ca.today.reuters.com)
Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Chief Marketing Officer Clent Richardson who has held the job for 18 months, will leave the company for personal reasons.

Rogers promotes new CFO (theglobeandmail.com)
Thursday, December 15, 2005

Rogers Communications Inc. announced Bill Linton as the new Chief Financial Officer. Today's announcement coincides with the companies new plan to raise its annual dividend by fifty percent to fifteen cents a share.

CHUM seeks to add foreign radio channels to service (theglobeandmail.com)
Thursday, December 15, 2005

CHUM Ltd. wants to expand its Canadian radio operations to allow a subscription radio service that can import channels from countries such as the United States.

Microsoft battles Apple with MTV deal (thisismoney.co.uk)
Thursday, December 15, 2005

Microsoft has announced a deal with MTV to create a new service called Urge. It will sell songs individually or as part of a subscription package and it will also offer music over online radio.

Facebook cheating charge hearing set (theglobeandmail.com)
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A first-year engineering student accused of cheating through an online study group was expected to face the music Tuesday at a widely watched expulsion hearing.

New BlackBerry works on Wi-Fi (theglobeandmail.com)
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Research In Motion's latest offering works with both the GSM cellular and Wi-Fi systems for data access and voice support.

Toronto joins Digital City Network (theglobeandmail.com)
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Toronto becomes the first Canadian city to join San Francisco's Digital City Network, which seeks to get local government and industry officials in technological hubs working together to plan ways to build broader, faster networks.

Adobe PDF flaw allows PC access (cbc.ca)
Friday, January 5, 2007

Security officials warned Wednesday that a flaw in earlier versions of Acrobat Reader could allow online thieves and hackers to steal web-related information from users who posted portable document format — or PDF — files on their website.

NASA and Google to Bring Space Exploration Down to Earth (nasa.gov)
Monday, December 18, 2006

NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human-computer interfaces.

They adore their Commodore 64s (theglobeandmail.com)
Monday, December 4, 2006

Once a month, the group gathers to swap files, share hacking techniques and troubleshoot several generations of Commodore systems, from the early PET to the VIC-20 and the more sophisticated 64 and Amiga.

Vista to include piracy protection (theglobeandmail.com)
Thursday, October 5, 2006

Microsoft Corporation's new version of Windows will take a much more serious role in protecting their operating system from software pirates. The new security measures will prevent unlicensed copies from using the most anticipated features.

Apple recalls Sony batteries (theglobeandmail.com)
Friday, August 25, 2006

Close to six million batteries made by Sony Corp. are being recalled after the well known issue with Dell Inc. batteries catching on fire.

Live Messenger Launches (theglobeandmail.com)
Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Microsoft has taken its instant messaging service out of beta. It is now a business-friendly service that includes features like VOIP, improved video capabilities and more.

Highly critical Internet Explorer Vulnerability (pcmag.com)
Thursday, March 23, 2006

Microsoft will release a pre-patch for a "highly critical" vulnerability that can put I.E. users at the mercy of hackers.

Google Mars Map (theglobeandmail.com)
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Google Inc. launched Google Mars on Monday. An up-close, interactive view of Mars in elevation maps, visible-imagery maps, and black-and-white pictures.

EFF warns consumers against using new Google Desktop (eff.org)
Friday, February 10, 2006

The new "Search Across Computers" feature will store copies of the user's Word Documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other documents on Google's servers.

Microsoft Security Service (forbes.com)
Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Users can better protect their Windows operating system from worms, malware, and other attacks by subscribing to the new Microsoft security solution.

Gmail problem sometimes allows other users to read email (arstechnica.com)
Sunday, January 22, 2006

Gmail email addresses do not support dot's in them. This means that if your email address is firstname.lastname@gmail.com then the email may also be received by firstnamelastname@gmail.com. Google acknowledges this problem in the help center.

Google refuses U.S. access to search history (globetechnology.com)
Friday, January 20, 2006

The U.S. government was denied access to Google Inc.'s search records. The government wants to restore on-line child protection laws that were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Is this the end of free file sharing? (globetechnology.com)
Tuesday, January 3, 2006

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last summer means file sharing networks might be shutting down soon. The entertainment industry is dictating the rules and everyone else is towing the line.

Instant Messaging Worm poses as Santa Claus (informationweek.com)
Wednesday, December 21, 2005

This new worm is circulating on the MSN, AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo Instant Messaging services. It is very dangerous because it installs a rootkit that cloaks itself from security software.

Lexar plans to include Google software in its JumpDrive. (informationweek.com)
Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Google Picasa, Toolbar and Desktop Search applications will automatically be installed on new Lexar JumpDrives. With as much as 2 gigabytes of data users can store applications and documents in the same place. Future releases could include an operating system so that users can essentially carry their computers with them on a keychain.

Hi-tech firms get criticised for helping China silence its domestic critics (news.bbc.co.uk)
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft cater to the wishes of the Chinese government in order to do business with the country. Since the Chinese economy is growing at such a fast pace many businesses want to expand into their market but there is a fine line between corporations being pro-democratic and censoring content.

Intel Partners With BMW (informationweek.com)
Thursday, December 15, 2005

Intel Corp. announced a multi-year partnership with German automobile company BMW AG. They will be partnering in marketing and technology.

Google rolls out online storage services (cbc.ca)
Monday, August 13, 2007

Web search and internet services company Google Inc. has started selling online storage capacity, a service aimed at users with large picture, music or video file collections.

Digg dumps Google for Microsoft as ad partner (cbc.ca)
Thursday, July 26, 2007

Digg Inc., a reader-powered news site, fired Google Inc. as its online advertising partner Wednesday in favour of a company Digg's top executive described as young and willing to take risks: Microsoft Corp.

Google expands sales of print ads (theglobeandmail.com)
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Google Inc. is expanding a test program that lets online advertisers buy ad space in newspapers, as the publishing industry struggles to offset business that has moved to the Internet.

Google releases custom-search tools (cbc.ca)
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Google Inc. announced on Monday a new service that allows websites to build their own specialty search engines.

Google Code Search Announced (google.com)
Thursday, October 5, 2006

Google Code Search helps you find function definitions and sample code by giving you one place to search publicly accessible source code hosted on the Internet.

Judge Rules that 16 year old Spammer Must Stay in His Room (crave.cnet.co.uk)
Thursday, August 24, 2006

Yesterday the 'Boy Spammer' David Lennon, who was 16 when he electronically snubbed his former bosses, has been told by a judge that as punishment for his crimes he can't leave his house between the hours of 12.30am and 7am on weekdays, and between 12.30am and 10am on weekends, for two months.

Opera 9 Browser Released (pcmag.com)
Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Opera Software officially announced the release of Opera 9. The new browser includes many new features like "widgets" and integrated support of a BitTorrent file-distribution system.

.tel domain approved (theglobeandmail.com)
Tuesday, May 16, 2006

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the creation of the .tel Top Level Domain (TLD).

Babel Fish moves from Alta Vista to Yahoo! (pcmag.com)
Friday, April 28, 2006

The on-line translation service has moved from Alta Vista over to Yahoo!

Michael Geist talks with p2pnet (p2pnet.net)
Saturday, March 25, 2006

Dr Michael Geist discusses issues of free speech and freedom of the net in general.

Gmail + Google Talk (arstechnica.com)
Wednesday, February 8, 2006

A new Gmail feature provides integrated instant messaging support using Google Talk.

AOL and Google announced advertising related initiatives and a $1 billion investment by Google. (clickz.com)
Wednesday, December 21, 2005

In 2002 Google started to display paid search ads on America Online. Today's announcement indicates that small graphics, such as a logo or product picture, will be included with the paid search listings. "We're confident that this partnership marks the next big step in making AOL an even more important player in online advertising," said the chairman of Time Warner's Media & Communications Group.

Microsoft officially ends support for Mac Internet Explorer (macworld.com)
Monday, December 19, 2005

Although this is an announcement that should come as no surprise for Mac users because in June 2003 the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit stopped developing Mac I.E. Today's announcement officially ends support for the product and the company recommends that Mac users should "migrate to more recent browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari."

Google Music (ecommercetimes.com)
Thursday, December 15, 2005

After analysing their statistics they realized that lots of people are searching the web for music. Today Google announced another new feature to search for music and return relevant information about artists, including links to their websites.

TCS Feedback
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

We would very much like to hear your feedback about Toronto Computer Services so please visit our contact us page and share your thoughts.

TCS Downtime
Friday, August 25, 2006

Toronto Computer Services experienced a technical problem recently that led to some downtime. The problem has been resolved and it hopefully will not happen again.

TCS Adds Support for Google Maps
Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Today we added the support for Google Maps. Now you can browse the computer services in Toronto by simply clicking on the map in each category.

Toronto Computer Services Launches
Wednesday, December 14, 2005

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new website dedicated to Toronto Computer Services in the Greater Toronto Area.