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Shopping for secure technology solutions can be confusing, and this confusion often arises out of the myriad of standards and approval bodies that companies advertise in their marketing materials. Making sense of who these organizations are and what they do can help to keep you info...

The European Union's top antitrust official, Margrethe Vestager, filed charges against Amazon on November 10 accusing the tech giant of abusing its dominant position to gain an unfair advantage over competitors within its online marketplace. These charges come after a two-year inves...

Change your shirt, fix your hair, move the piles of laundry and dishes into the backyard. Just like many people scrambling to make themselves presentable for their next video-conference meeting, Zoom has also been scrambling to make good on their claims to offer end-to-end encryptio...

The term ‘done’ in the technology world means different things to different organizations. But having a clear definition of done may help your organization reduce its amount of technical debt.

Technical debt is incurred when a team overlooks certain aspects of code in order to hit...

Shadow IT, also known as phantom IT, is a phenomenon that happens when an individual uses unauthorized software or tools to perform company-related work. For example, in the course of project work, a team member may store work on Dropbox or Google Docs, or use a chat tool such as Sl...

With Google's recently released WebRTC Insertable Streams, users of the WebRTC communication API were offered something more reliable and secure in their online communication. While WebRTC by itself has made VoIP calls more accessible to developers and end users since its introducti...

Canada confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on January 25, and registered its first official death on March 9. It was after this date that the pandemic began to significantly impact everyday life for Canadians as emergency measures and lockdown restrictions were rapidly introduced....

While many of the best-known tech companies like Microsoft, Facebook, and Google — companies that control huge amounts of user data and considerable market share — have largely avoided antitrust scrutiny in the past, changes are imminent as pressure mounts from both North America an...

Creating a remote work culture.

Since most of North America has been mandated to temporarily work remotely, it’s been an eye opener for some traditional office personnel to realize that they can actually be productive without working within the typical office confines. And the de...

Meetings are an important part of any business's operations, but they can often feel like time wasters if they are not conducted properly. For a remote workplace like StormFree, meetings are a daily necessity, and we have developed several strategies to make meetings less dreaded an...