Canadian Internet Forum

From WattPad to MyShoebox, Toronto's start-ups ready for the big time.

U.S. State Department and global civil society groups prep as U.N. telecommunication arm ITU tackles Internet control at WPTF-13 this week.

The US government is waging electronic warfare on a vast scale — so large that it's causing a seismic shift in the unregulated grey markets where hackers and criminals buy and sell security...

Reddit has released a geographical breakdown of visits to the social networking site by city to show what cities are the most Reddit-obsessed in the world.

A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers

The Internet's growing role in economies and societies also poses new threats. The time has come for states and private partners to set global norms for web conduct, says expert Andrea Renda.

"Nothing is safe once your Glass has been hacked," hacker warns.

Akamai, however added: ...the originating country as identified by the source IP address is not attribution — for example, a criminal in Russia may be launching attacks from compromised systems in China.

Some students in the Beaufort Delta region of the N.W.T. are taking high school courses in Inuvik from the comfort of their home communities.

A faster version of Wi-Fi will hit the market this year, giving users the power to download a television show's entire season in less than a minute—although few people can expect to take advantage of such speeds any time soon.

A Canadian chapter of the Internet Society, which advocates on digital issues on behalf of all web users, is officially open for membership.

A report cautioned that government wiretapping of the Internet could pose “serious security risks” to users.

"I saw the chance to... command hundreds of thousands of devices with a click of my mouse," said the anonymous cartographer behind the map.

Remember that international debate about government control of the Internet? It’s back.

We regret to inform you this is the end of the unfettered Internet. But don’t worry: judiciously controlling when, where and how we use tech will only make things better and safer

"I have two kids, nine and six, a boy and a girl. And they're exposed to so much technology. But their schools haven't changed in 50 years. They're teaching the same stuff in different ways."

The battle for control of cyberspace is turning nasty, with young hackers, pirates and activists facing long prison sentences. Jon Ronson reports from the frontline

The Dutch government has announced plans to give police much greater powers to fight cybercrime including the right to hack computers abroad.

Jesse Brown notes familiar phrasing in the PM's latest thinking

While we still have a ways to go before the Internet service market offers Canadians the level of choice and affordability we deserve and what we need to at least become globally competitive, the coming together of the pro-Internet community to...

Canada has dropped in every international study ranking competitiveness and ICT excellence. In other words, what we’re doing isn’t working

Jean-Louis Gassée: We need to defend ourselves and get control of our personal data amassed by private companies and government agencies