Imagine paying for your next purchase with a wristband that only works once it identified your unique heartbreat. This sci-fi scenario is being played out in Canada, where Royal Bank is working with Toronto-based technology developer Bionym to test a wristband called Nymi. The watch-like device is being given to 250 RBC staff and clients […]
Category: Hardware
Xerox Canada and GreenCentre Canada collaborating on green tech
Xerox Canada and GreenCentre Canada are collaborating to boost the commercialization of green tech in Canada. “We are thrilled to have access to the infrastructure and expertise at XRCC, which allows us to take our technology development to a whole new level,”said Rui Resendes, executive director of GreenCentre Canada, in a statement on October 1, […]
1 gigabit speeds on DSL possible by 2016
DSL (Digital subscriber line), one of the initial technologies that heralded the era of high-speed Internet, is set to leap into the future, with Broadcom announcing a new technology that will allow speeds of 1 gigabit per second through DSL. That increase is about 1,000 times the data-transfer speed the technology offered when it debuted in the late […]