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Facebook Introduces “Listen” Button on Musicians’ Pages
0By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | Social Media
In its persistent and aggressive bid to become the web’s most popular website, Facebook has added a new feature known as the Listen button onto the pages of all musicians and recording artists. The button, which is similar in appearance and location to the well-known Like button allows a selection of the artist’s music to be played immediately on the Facebook music streaming application of you...
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Klik Integrates Facial Recognition and Facebook
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | Mobile Apps
A new iOS application created by Face.com allows you to use your facebook contacts and more importantly their photos to instantly recognize and tag faces in all of your future photographs moving forward. The application is currently in its beta form and is available for free download. The app immediately recognizes faces within a photograph and correlate...
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Cybercrime Becoming Increasing Common in Canada
By: 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...
