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OpenText™ has announced the agenda for its Enterprise World 2012 customer conference, which will be held November 11-16, 2012 in Orlando, Florida. The conference, themed “Unleashing the Power of Information,” will offer an interactive forum where attendees can engage with OpenText executives, partners, industry experts and peers and share insights on the latest trends and best practices for managing enterprise information — from collaboration and the cloud to unstructured information and big data. Read the rest of this entry »

SoftLayer Technologies, a leading global provider of cloud infrastructure, today announced the expansion of its Catalyst Program into Canada, supporting marquee Canadian incubators, accelerators and startups. SoftLayer’s Catalyst Program will provide Canada’s most promising startups with IT infrastructure (servers, storage and networking) credits, executive mentoring, engineering resources as well as limited financial support. Read the rest of this entry »

Tim Hortons helped make history today, playing host to the first Canadian mobile credit card transaction. Canadian Olympic Triathlete Simon Whitfield purchased a Tim Hortons coffee at a downtown Toronto restaurant using a Rogers BlackBerry smartphone and CIBC credit card account. Now Tim Hortons guests, who are clients of CIBC and Rogers, will be able to pay for their favourite coffee, breakfast or lunch without ever opening their wallet. Read the rest of this entry »

On October 12, 2012, HootSuite reached 5 million signups. Who uses HootSuite (I do), and where in the world can they be found? The company has put together a new infographic that illustrates its journey to-date, and to see what five million looks like. At five million users, HootSuite spans the globe, with expansion into Europe and Asia is driving growth, and there’s a good chance the social media management system speaks your language. How fast is HootSuite growing? The first million took nearly two years. The fourth million took almost eight months, but the fifth million took just two months. HootSuite is picking up speed, and not looking back. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) announced today that two more digital media innovation centres have joined the CDMN’s cross-Canada network to enable collaboration and advance digital innovation nationally. The Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre in northern Ontario, and Tech SouthEast in Moncton, New Brunswick become the newest nodes on the CDMN network, bringing the total number across Canada to 12 nodes with 20 locations. The CDMN has ambitious expansion plans for the network, and intends to sign additional nodes west of Ontario before the end of the year. Prospective nodes are eager to take advantage of the many benefits associated with membership in this one-of-a-kind national network. Read the rest of this entry »

Key members of Canada’s business and enterprise sectors have joined Startup Canada’s leadership team as it prepares to launch its national strategy to support entrepreneurship in Canada.  A new Board and two new advisory councils – a National Advisory Council and a Government, Industry and Academic Advisory Board – will strengthen the voice of entrepreneurs at the heart of the organization and engage additional stakeholders from Canada’s economic ecosystem. Startup Canada’s blueprint for kick-starting entrepreneurship in Canada will be unveiled at the end of November and will contain key findings and action items from its National Tour. Read the rest of this entry »

Gener8 Digital Media Corp., a visual effects studio that is redefining the landscape of 3D film production, is launching a new business division devoted to cloud-based data management: Cumul8. Developed to address Gener8’s own digital production needs, Cumul8 turns data into knowledge by aggregating various data streams involved in a production and using these to drive valuable, real-time metrics to a project’s decision makers. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based Yworld, the collaborative networking platform designed for professionals, is expanding their closed Alpha test with a second round of invitations to faculty and students from select universities to join the first social network to sort people, groups, and projects with a proprietary influence and prestige ranking system. As part of the test, Yworld launched free, unlimited data storage for Alpha testers, as well as a collaborative whiteboard with group chat. Read the rest of this entry »

For the fourth consecutive year, wireless services topped the list of complaints. Canada’s Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS) reports an increase in telecom consumer complaints in its 2011-2012 Annual Report “We Listen. We Help.”  Read the rest of this entry »

Absolute® Software Corporation, a Vancouver-based provider of firmware-embedded, persistent endpoint security and management solutions, provided an update on business growth plans. With the recent announcement of Absolute Manage 6.1.2 supporting OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and the soon to be released Windows 8, as well as providing mission critical governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) capabilities with Computrace® 5.12,  Absolute is positioned as a clear leader in the convergence of endpoint security and management. Read the rest of this entry »