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Ottawa’s Amika Mobile Corp. Helped Make the Little League World Series Safe for All
0By: Kuljit Grewal | August 27th, 2012 | Living, News, O Canada
Every summer in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania the finest t 11-13 year old baseball players in the world represent their nation at the Little League World Series (LLWS). The event, which culminated yesterday with Japan’s 12-2 victory over U.S. champion Tennessee draws thousands of spectators and volunteers, had an extra leve...
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Web Performance Company CloudFlare Opens Data Centre in Toronto
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 27th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
As they expand their ever expanding global network, San Francisco based CloudFlare opened their 18th international location in Toronto, Ontario earlier this month. The company specializes in optimizing website speed, performance and security in both paid and free servic...
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Ottawa E-commerce Company Shopify Launches iPhone App
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 27th, 2012 | Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, O Canada, Smartphones
E-commerce platform Shopify had added a mobile app to their service repertoire, allowing business owners to track orders, monitor sales trends and interact with customers directly from their iPhone. The company, which boasts over 25,000 users including the likes of Gatorade, Foo Fighters, General Electric, Tesla Motors, Tata Group and Pixar has had mobile in th...
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WORD IS: RIM’s BB10 Devices and Operating System are Getting Great Reviews
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 25th, 2012 | News, O Canada, Tablets
We would be vehemently lying if we said that we were not hoping that RIM would regain its footing and be the tech comeback story of 2013. Call me a Nationalist or just a sucker for a great comeback, but having more quality mobile devices in the market does nothing but help the industry and users overall. As
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Rogers Communications Inc. Acquires Score Media
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 25th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Sports
Canada’s sports broadcasting world continues to become a smaller place, with Rogers Communications Inc. officially acquiring rival Score Media Inc. The deal which was made public after markets closed yesterday generated enough buzz throughout Friday to raise Score Media’s shares an incredible 47% in ...
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Music Streaming Service Songza is Available in Canada
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 25th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
We recently shared that Swedish firm Spotify has all but confirmed that it will be expanding into Canada in the near future as it grows internationally (TQ was on it). It seems that there was another popular and highly acclaimed streaming service that was already building a following in this great nation of ours since Augu...
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FREE = GOOD. TELUS Will Give You 5 Free Movies When You Activate or Renew a Contract
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 24th, 2012 | Business, O Canada, Smartphones
The good people at TELUS Mobility are running a promotion from August 24, 2012 to September 30, 2012 that will allow SCENE members 5 free movies. The value of the promotion is worth 5,000 SCENE points. In order to be eligible, you must purchase and activate a...
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Canada’s HootSuite Partners with Twitter for an Advertising Campaign
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 24th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
As Twitter continues its journey of self-discovery and attempts to figure out how to monetize itself without tainting its wonderful user experience, it has enlisted the help of a Canadian friend for its latest move. Twitter is in the process of evolving their API and has renewed their focus to target enterprises.
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Montreal’s Frima Studio is Building Games That Raise Social Awareness
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 23rd, 2012 | Games, News, O Canada
Successful Quebec-based gaming company Frima Studio are using what they do best to raise social awareness and promote change world round. Founded in 2003 by three budding entrepreneurs, the company has gone on to create a plethora of multi platform games boasting a portfolio that features over 80 mobile games and 200 flash games. For all of the company’s...
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SOURCE SAYS: Upcoming BlackBerry 10 Devices Will Feature Qualcomm’s S4 Pro Chip
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 23rd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
For those worried that RIM would not throw everything into their upcoming devices and mobile platform, this could be huge. According to BlackBerryOS, a highly reputable source has received confirmation from both RIM and Qualcomm that the c...
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