Welcome to Hashtag Trending The Weekend Edition. I’m your host, Jim Love. I can understand that many of you might get frustrated about politics. What we see for the most part is a lot of BS. Ask a politician a simple question. You get a lot of non answers, talking points, ways their political opponents […]
Police in Dominica have charged two American men, Jonathan Scott Lehrer and Robert Snyder Jr., with the murders of Softimage founder Daniel Langlois and his partner, Dominique Marchand, whose bodies were found in a burned-out car on Friday. Lehrer and Snyder are charged with the murders of Langlois and Marchand at Lehrer’s chocolate plantation, Bois […]
Daniel Langlois, the founder of Softimage, was found dead with his spouse, Dominique Marchand, in the remains of a burned car in Dominica, an island in the Caribbean, on Friday. A story in Dominica News Online today said that three non-nationals and one Dominican are in custody. It quoted Dominican Minister of National Security and […]
After a decade of trying to resuscitate BlackBerry Ltd., John Chen is leaving the company. In a statement issued this afternoon, the company announced the executive chair and CEO will retire effective Nov. 4. Richard (Dick) Lynch will succeed Chen as board chair and will also serve as interim chief executive while BlackBerry completes its […]
IT professionals are passionate about their pets. Those little creatures have kept us company during COVID and they keep us sane through all of the ups and downs of our technology-driven careers. There are tons of awards for achievements in IT. We honour CIOs, CISOs, Channel Partners, and Digital Transformation – and a whole lot more. Does the […]
Mebs Rehemtulla, chief technology officer, client technical leader of the Global Strategic Clients Group at Oracle in Ottawa since last October, died yesterday of a heart attack. He was 55. His wife, Kathleen O’Grady, revealed the news on LinkedIn. The news of his death prompted tributes from current and former colleagues, who praised his business […]
Uber enters a non-prosecution agreement with the FTC, LinkedIn ranks Amazon as the best company to work for, and a ransomware attack has hit a small Canadian town. That’s all the tech news that’s trending right now, welcome to Hashtag Trending. It’s Monday, July 25, and I’m your host, Tom Li. Uber has admitted to […]
