Posts tagged police
Challenging the status quo
Dec 21st
By Francis Moran
When trying to sell a new and innovative product, and a premium one at that, into a somewhat conservative market, there is often no greater competition than the status quo.
The team at NanoScale Corporation knows this all too well. After years developing its intellectual property into a range of products for the defence, police and hazmat markets, NanoScale has focused its efforts around expanding in the civilian disaster restoration market. Here, restoration professionals work to repair, remediate and decontaminate commercial and residential properties damaged by fire, storms, water, sewer backups and mould. In North America alone, this market is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. It is a steady market sheltered from general economic volatility given that disasters and accidents happen all the time and the cost of restoration is typically covered by an insurer.
While NanoScale has made inroads into this market in recent years, it remains challenged to overcome the status quo and the reluctance of its potential customers to embrace new products and technologies quite unlike what they are accustomed to. Read the rest of this entry »
Cameron must be off his chump to call for social media ban
Aug 12th
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s threat of blocking social media sites and BlackBerry Messenger service in reaction to rioting in London and surrounding cities is pure folly.
The logic of cutting off everyone’s access to communication tools because a few criminals are making use of them is bollocks. Imagine if the rioters used Molotov cocktails in their destructive experts – would a ban on the sale of liquor be considered? Also, it is rare to hear suggestions of gun bans after shootings take place.
Brian Jackson, Associate Editor, ITBusiness.ca
Police vs. Activists in collection of G20 digital record
Jul 19th
Weeks after Toronto played host to the G20 summit, the protests and intense police presence are still reverberating through social media.
Brian Jackson
Pictures and videos of burning police cruisers and protester pinned to the pavement have spread across Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. in vast multitude. With so much digital record of that disruptive weekend obviously at the public’s fingertips, it was no surprise when Toronto Police realized such evidence might come in useful.
