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Aviva Canada launches mobile website
Mobile site gives consumers quick access to insurance information on their smartphones and other mobile devices
Category: Software & Technology
Business leaders need to take more risks to create innovation and new technologies
View the video here on your mobile device. Recently, students of the McMaster business program joined Eric Gales, President of Microsoft Canada and Dr. Benson Honig of the DeGroote School of Business, for a talk on how Canadian business leaders can foster innovation in the workplace and shape the future of work. Here’s what some [...]
Five tips for securing sensitive customer data
On April 1, Epsilon Interactive announced that unknown intruders had broken into one of its email servers and accessed the names and email accounts of some of its 2,500 corporate customers, including Best Buy, Citibank, Disney, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton and Marriott. The email service provider issued the following statement: On March 30th, an incident was [...]
Insurance company’s servers hacked
Computer hackers have broken into the servers of The Hartford insurance company and installed password-swiping Trojan programs on the company’s Windows servers. The Hartford said it first became aware of the security threat at the end of February and sent a letter (PDF) to employees, contractors and a few customers, explaining the issue. The Hartford [...]
Organizational data breaches cost $7.2 million in 2010
The cost of data breaches grew in 2010, marking the fifth consecutive increase. Symantec Corp. and the Ponemon Institute recently released the findings of the 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach, which found that the average organizational cost of a data breach increased to $7.2 million and cost companies an average of [...]
Selling car insurance in Alberta will never be the same with new option from AXA Pacific
By ILSTV Staff on Mar 15, 2011 in Auto & Trucking, Canadian Insurance, Company News, Software & Technology
AXA Pacific Insurance Company, a subsidiary of AXA Canada, is now offering a hybrid approach between the independent broker distribution and direct writing insurer channels. The company’s Buy Now option allows customers to have a broker-driven online insurance purchasing alternative. The Buy Online solution lets Alberta drivers select a broker through the www.axa.ca website, purchase [...]
Keal wins Insurance Canada Technology Award for Commercial Integration
At last week’s 2011 P&C Insurance Technology Conference, Keal Technology was awarded with the Insurance Canada Technology Award (ICTA) Best in Class – Broker Integration. “The ICTA recognizes the benefits brokers realize by utilizing the integration between Keal’s Commercial Management System (CMS), comXP and Lombard Canada’s Commercial LINCQ,” said a statement from Keal. Brokers using [...]
Social media greatly influences financial decision making
Canadians with financial planning and investment questions have many resources available to them: their professional financial advisors, friends and family, books and magazines and, increasingly, social media. A new poll from Investors Group found that 42 percent of Canadians who save and invest use social and online media to find information to help them with [...]
Speed of Intel’s new data transfer technology will blow your mind
View the video here on your mobile device. The Intel Corporation is announcing their new Thunderbolt technology, a new high-speed PC connection technology that brings together high-speed data transfer and high-definition (HD) display on to a single cable. Running at 10Gigabits/second, Thunderbolt technology can transfer a full-length HD movie in less than 30 seconds Jason [...]
Facial recognition technology helps ICBC fight fraud
Facial recognition technology helped ICBC resolve a number of fraud and identity theft cases in 2010. British Columbia’s auto insurer first introduced facial recognition technology in 2008 and Fred Hess, vice president of driver licensing at ICBC says the organization is now at the forefront of identity protection. The technology allows ICBC to compare a [...]
Sex.com sets Guinness World Record for most expensive domain name
The value of a good domain name can’t be underestimated and now, one domain has earned a Guinness World Record for “the most expensive internet address domain name.” Sex.com was sold for $13 million on November 17, 2010 to Clover Holdings Ltd., a company registered on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. The $13 million [...]
RIP CV? Online profiles replacing resumes
Is the traditional resume going the way of the dinosaur? Some human resources managers interviewed recently by OfficeTeam think so. More than one-third (36 percent) of respondents said it’s at least somewhat likely resumes will eventually be replaced by profiles on social and business networking sites. HR managers were asked, “In your opinion, how likely [...]
How a networked society is changing us as human beings
View the video here on your mobile device. Narrator: At a recent technology conference sponsored by the Ericcson Corporation, trendsetters and visionaries got together to define a networked society and discuss how it’s changing us as human beings. Gerd Leonhard: Now, all of a sudden we’re interconnected, we’re networking with strangers. We’re having revolutions started [...]
Man vs. Machine on Jeopardy
View the video here on your mobile device. It has been a theme of sci-fi novels for decades: Man vs. machine, and last night on the popular game show Jeopardy, it was showdown between IBM’s super computer, nicknamed Watson, and two of the greatest champions in jeopardy history. Harry Friedman, Executive Producer of Jeopardy, explains [...]
Generation Y women don’t want to mix social media with work
Social media networks, from Facebook to Twitter to YouTube, are here to stay, but new research from Decode finds disparities in the way Generation Y integrates it into work. Robert Barnard, CEO of Decode, recently presented findings from “Decoding Social Media at Work” at the HR Directors Business Summit in Birmingham, UK. The report pulls [...]
IBM Celebrates 100 Year Anniversary
View the video here on your mobile device. 2011 Marks the 100 year anniversary of IBM The company began as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation, or CTR, which was incorporated in New York City on June 16, 1911. It sold punched card equipment, commercial scales and time recording devices. Thomas J. Watson, Sr., became head [...]
Feds show technology that in future might let cars decide if a driver is too drunk
An alcohol-detection prototype that uses automatic sensors to instantly gauge a driver’s fitness to be on the road has the potential to save thousands of lives, but could be as long as a decade away from everyday use in cars, federal officials and researchers said Friday. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visited QinetiQ North America, [...]
Generation Y trends towards online interaction with insurance companies
The 18-to-25 year-old Generation Y demographic is technologically savvy, and expects their insurance providers to be, too. A recent poll by EMPLOYERS, a group of companies providing workers’ compensation insurance and services to small American businesses, found that unlike the older generational segments, the Gen Y, and to a large extent Gen X, segment poses [...]
Lombard Canada brokers can access Keal’s comXP data on Apple devices
Lombard Canada’s commercial brokers can increase their mobile options with their integration partnership with Keal Technology. Using Lombard Canada’s Commercial LINCQ, brokers can download Lombard’s Business Choice renewal policy directly into Keal’s commercial management system (CMS), comXP. The integration includes a PDF download of the declaration page directly from LINCQ, brought back to comXP as [...]
