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Canadian Technology Accelerator in Boston Invites Applications from Established Small and Medium-Sized Canadian Companies
1By: Ali Raza | December 11th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) in Boston is offering a golden opportunity to established small and medium-sized Canadian companies engaged in IT, green technology, life sciences or health sectors to seize financial prospects, strategic partnerships and...
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CRTC’s Conclude Consultations That Show People Want To Stop Three Year Wireless Contracts
By: Kevin Green | December 11th, 2012 | Business
Canada’s federal regulatory body for the telecom industry, Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), recently concluded an online consultation which showed heavy demand by participants to ban three year contracts from cellular service providers. The hundreds of participants in consultation with the CRTC we...
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Hackbright Academy Works To Help Women Break Into Web Development World
By: Kevin Green | December 11th, 2012 | Business, News
Hackbright Academy is looking to change the male dominated programming world with their “10 week training program designed to help women become awesome programmers.” The initiative is very young and graduated its second batch of 16 people and the results of their education are not yet clear. However, co-founder David J. Phillips,...
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RIM Gives BlackBerry Messenger Users BBM Voice With New App Update
By: Kevin Green | December 11th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry news has been hitting the headlines with updates and releases for the last couple of weeks as the Canadian technology giant gets ready to launch its upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform and related device. Only last week Research In Motion retooled the Facebook app for BlackBerry to have a lot more BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) support. Now the ...
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Instagram Pictures Will Not Appear In Twitter Because Card Support Is Now Off
By: Kevin Green | December 11th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
Mobile photo sharing social network, Instagram, disabled Twitter cards so that users would migrate to the Facebook owned service. This has caused Instagram pictures appearing in Twitter to become distorted. Now it seems that images from the photo streaming site have completely disappeared ...
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Eight Technology Firms Including Facebook and Google Work Together To Stop Patents On Vague Ideas
By: Kevin Green | December 11th, 2012 | Business, Google, News
Facebook, Google, Zynga, Red Hat, Intuit, Dell, Homeaway, and Rackspace have banded together to file an amicus brief with courts in the United States to ask them to not pursue cases that involve vague patent concepts. The eight technology firms have stated that abstract ideas like the recent...
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Apple’s iTunes Stands Amongst the Largest Media Companies in the World
By: Ali Raza | December 10th, 2012 | Apple, Business, Gadgets, iOS, News, Social Media
To the common observer, it appears as though media corporations like Yahoo!, Google, Facebook and others represent the most noteworthy media business online. However, on close examination, it comes to li...
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96 Percent of Top Executives in Canada Believes Big Data Technology is Essential for Business Growth
By: Ali Raza | December 10th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
It is often observed that business executives acknowledge importance of certain tools, but in spite of ist practically they do not invest in such things. As a result of that businesses and companies suffer in the long run because with each passing day competition in the industry is getting stronger and stronger. Therefore, in order to survive and excel in any business one cannot take the risk of k...
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Wordnik Launches Related Content Service In Open Beta
By: Talha Bhatti | December 10th, 2012 | Business, News
Wordnik launched the open beta of its Related Content feature on December 5. The new service from the online dictionary lets website owners add the ability to recommend other content at the end of their own web page. The content recommendation market already has a lot of players in the market including
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Google And Apple Work Together To Secure Kodak Patents
By: Talha Bhatti | December 10th, 2012 | Apple, Business, Google, News
Bloomberg reports that competitors Apple and Google have put their differences aside and are partnering up to purchase Kodak’s portfolio of patents for approximately $500 million. ...
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