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Cybercrime Becoming Increasing Common in Canada
0By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | News, O Canada
A San Diego-based IT security company called Websense Inc. has provided some frightening insight into Canada’s current cybercrime picture. According to an annual study conducted by Websense, an increased number of Canadian servers have fallen victim to malicious hackers, who seek to attack unsuspecting Canadian and international users. Canada’s current crystal clean cyber reputati...
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Canadian Start-Up RewardLoop Raises $1 Million in Series A Round
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, O Canada
Vancouver based start-up RewardLoop announced today that they had secured $1 million in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group in order to further expand their business. RewardLoop’s business model is a novel and original concept that allows merchants to integrate mobile device based customer loyalty reward programs easily and cost effectively. Th...
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Canadian Businesses Get In Deep with Google
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | News, O Canada
Google’s revolutionary Street View feature within Google Maps is one that has been used by everyone and their aunt to date. Thus far however, the limits of the technology are that we were never able to move beyond the actual brick and mortar exterior of the buildings that stood at the addresses we were searching. No longer shall you suffer says Google. The company has now made it po...
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Research in Motion Announces Partnership with Navigation Giant TomTom
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
TomTom, a Dutch manufacturer of automobile navigation systems announced a strategic partnership with RIM at the CTIA Wireless Conference earlier today in New Orleans. The agreement will allow RIM to use TomTom’s revered and acclaimed real-time traffic technology within their BlackBerry applications to provide the most accurate and reliable traffic infor...
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Ontario’s Federal Economic Development Agency Invests in Three Ottawa Start-Ups
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Gary Goodyear, the Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency of Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) was on hand to announce a progressive investment in thee Ottawa area start-ups. The investment, with a ceiling of $1,947,250 will aid said companies in funding further innovation in order to bring their products to market while also employing an estimated 40 people within the provi...
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Gmail Becomes City of Edmonton’s Email Provider
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | News, O Canada
The Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta has made what should be applauded as a progressive and forward thinking move, switching their city employees’ email and office applications to Google. The municipality becomes the first in Canada to make the move, and will be rewarded with an estimated cost savings of $6 million by the end of the 2018 fiscal year. This estimate is based on the difference be...
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Mobile App Camera+ is on Twitter’s Radar
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, O Canada
Co-founded by Victoria B.C.’s own Lisa Bettany along with the development team Tap Tap Tap, Camera+ is an application that allows you to take and adapt the highest quality photographs possible with your iPhone and Android devices. Although talks have been private, Twitter executives, led by founder Jack Dorsey have met with the development team of the application to discuss a potent...
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BlackBerry PlayBooks to Assist in Law Enforcement
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 12th, 2012 | Cars, O Canada, Smartphones
Thanks to a company known as Mobile Innovations, Canadian police vehicles may soon be fitted with RIM’s tablet technology nationwide, replacing the current laptops that are dated and more costly. Currently, two new Dodge Charger police cruisers are being tested in the Chatham-Kent region of Ontario. The technology integrates the tablet into the vehicleâ€...
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BlackBerry 10 is Banking Heavily on HTML5
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 12th, 2012 | News, O Canada, Smartphones
The big news at the annual BlackBerry World conference was the introduction and understanding that RIM’s highly anticipated BB10 software platform had already been released to developers, a major step in the right direction. Along with the software, prototype hardware units were also provided to developers attending the conference in order to aid the developers in understanding the devices that ...
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Toronto Property Rental Company is Making Movements
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 12th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, O Canada
For those of you out there who have not been introduced to RentCompass, a Toronto-based rental advertising company, you are definitely missing out. The company has progressively become the first Canadian renters’ mobile application available on both iOS and Android devices.  The company has also introduced a new Facebook application that allows for inte...
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