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Researchers At MIT Use Algebra To Reduce Wireless Network Congestion And Increase Speeds
0By: Talha Bhatti | October 25th, 2012 | Business, News
The U.S. wireless sector is going through an interesting time thanks to the FCC looking to auction off different spectrums. This is a step that many wireless providers are looking forward to because they need to figure out how to offer more bandwidth to users and their data hungry smartphones. It has become quite clear that the mobile future will ...
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Apple’s New iPad Mini Will Ship To Canadian Customers on November 2
By: Kevin Green | October 24th, 2012 | Apple, Business, Gadgets, iOS, O Canada, Tablets
On October 23, Apple launched its much rumored iPad Mini along with a group of other updated products. The 8-inch tablet was the biggest announcements the California based device maker made following the release of the iPhone 5. The latest tablet from Apple now puts itself sq...
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Canada May Gain From Looking at the Government Support of Ireland’s Start-up Sector
By: Kevin Green | October 24th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
In a recent blog post, Mark Evans, head of ME Consulting, spoke about his visit to the Web Summit conference held in Dublin, Ireland. Evans works with startups and entrepreneurs to fulfill their marketing needs and claims in the post that the Irish start-up scene and the Canadian star...
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Memoto Looking to Launch Lifelogging Device That Will Record Your Entire Life in Images
By: Kevin Green | October 24th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Living, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
Memoto has become a huge hit on the crowd funding site KickStarter. The startup is asking users for help raising $50,000 for the opportunity to wear a camera that will take images every thirty seconds. "The world's smallest wearable...
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Microsoft Launching First Retail Site in Toronto While Also Opening “Pop-up” Stores Across Canada
By: Jeff Stewart | October 23rd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Tablets
Good news for those of you who reside in Toronto. Microsoft has announced that they will soon open their first ever retail site in Canada (TQ was on it). And for this very purpose, Microsoft has already chosen a spot, the famous Yorkdale Mall which seems to get busier with the passing months. In addition to this, Microsoft is also planning to open “pop-up” stores across Canada ...
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Peek.com Wants To Become Travelers One-Stop Shop For Bookings and Information
By: Talha Bhatti | October 23rd, 2012 | Business, Living, News
Peek.com launched on October 11 in San Francisco as a start-up that aims to serve all of a traveler’s needs. The service wants to make planning a trip much easier by offering all travel related services in one location including bookings, tours, hotels, restaurants and other essential. Ruzwana Bashir, co-founder of Peek.com, sa...
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Norwegian Firm Thinfilm Selected as Runner-up for Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award
By: Talha Bhatti | October 23rd, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, News
Thin Film Electronics ASA sent out a press release earlier this month announcing that the start-up had been named a runner-up by The Wall Street Journal for the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award. Thinfilm received the acc...
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Orascom Takes Over Canadian Wireless Startup Wind Mobile
By: Talha Bhatti | October 23rd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Wind Mobile was officially taken over by its foreign financial backers on October 21 as a part of a deal that will create the first fully foreign-owned wireless carrier in Canada. The struggling start-up will also get the advantage of having half a billion dollars worth of interest written off as part of the agreement....
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AMD Discharges 15% of its Labour Force as Profits Slide in Third Quarter
By: Jeff Stewart | October 23rd, 2012 | Business, News
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a PC chip maker that once used to stand among the most profitable companies in the world, has posted a net loss of $157-million in Q3 of this fiscal year. A year ago, the Sunnyvale, California based company was earning decent profits, having posted profits of $97 million at the time, thus ma...
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Canada’s Telecom Watchdog CRTC Issues New Guidelines for Companies
By: Jeff Stewart | October 22nd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released two bulletins that feature guidelines for Canadian businesses in an attempt to raise awareness of the anti-spam laws of the country. In announcing the guidelines CRTC said that they expect the legislation to come into force in 2013. ...
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