Will lawyers soon flick on their TVs at home to brush up on their skills using a Netflix-like model, the costs of which are covered by their law society membership fees? Maybe. Certainly the technology has arrived. And, step by step, the legal community is warming to the idea of online continuing professional development (CPD). [...]
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Toronto’s BMO Field
Award Magazine, for which I regularly write, just assigned me a profile of Toronto FC’s new training facility in north Toronto. That led me to look up this 2007 profile of BMO Field, Toronto FC’s home field, which I also wrote. David Beckham’s much-ballyhooed signing with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer has Toronto [...]
Microsoft Word
Outside of one other Microsoft tool, namely Outlook, few pieces of software get used more regularly on the job than Microsoft Word. People use it to write all manner of business documents, from short memos to lengthy RFPs and business reports. Microsoft has even created a cloud computing (aka software as a service, or SaaS) [...]
Adobe
Few new computers spend much time out of the box before their owners install Reader, free software from Adobe that people use to read PDFs (portable document format), documents that look exactly the same no matter what computer they’re viewed on. Adobe Acrobat generates those PDFs, and its capabilities extend to the software as a [...]
From its well-regarded search engine to its plethora of products, Google has carved out significant slices of online activity and mindshare since its founders first made it available. Much of that mindshare comes from the business tools Google offers. Google Apps now serves as the productivity tool for cities like Los Angeles and Edmonton, where [...]
Architecture, engineering, design, construction
While I mainly write about technology, complex construction projects also fascinate me. I profile major projects, like the revamp of Toronto’s Union Station and the realization of the greenest buildings to date. I also document building trends and profile the trend-setters, as well as the software they use to innovate and erect better buildings every [...]
Scoping the scene for the right scanner
David Feld gladly (almost gleefully) avoids paper. He bluntly states he’s never owned a fax machine. He doesn’t even use the one that came with his Xerox WorkCentre multifunction printer. And, his clients communicate with him mainly via e-mail. “They even use their phones to take pictures of documents and send them to us,” the Toronto-based real estate attorney says. [...]
Web set to sprout new domains
Dot-com is getting more company: A new category of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is about to be unleashed. Granted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), TLDs are the letters to the right of the dot in a web address, such as com, ca, net or org. New gTLDs may offer their [...]
18 York Street – PwC Tower
Toronto’s financial district is spreading south of the tracks with the opening of the Southcore Financial Centre’s first of three buildings, the 26-storey PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Tower.
