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Cloud regulatory environment in Canada improving: BSA

Canada is getting better when it comes to facilitating the proper legislative, policy and privacy framework to facilitate cloud computing, according to a study by the Business Software Alliance (BSA). In its second analysis of the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 11th, 2013 Jeff Jedras
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Being compliant doesn’t mean being secure: study

Despite growing pressure on enterprises to comply with increasing government and industry security regulations, a majority of Canadian businesses believe falling into line doesn’t make an organization secure. “According to participants, complying with

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 11th, 2013 Nestor Arellano
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Adobe says ‘we’re not gonna take it anymore’

Marketing geeks all around the world can rejoice, that's if they've found there way to Salt Lake City, Utah.  Today marks the official start of Adobe's Marketing Summit 2013, running from March 4

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 6th, 2013 Ashley Huffman
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Adobe integrates creative and marketing clouds

Adobe's newly released "Marketing Cloud" is bringing together everything a marketing director and a manager have always wanted, but didn't know was possible in one streamline experience. The company aims to help digital

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 6th, 2013 Ashley Huffman
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IBM reaffirms its commitment to Open Standards

Cloud computing customers need the ability to access pools of information from different sources. They must be able to access code and tools from a variety of vendors, ensuring that they use the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 6th, 2013 Michelle Warren
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Facebook acquires Atlas Advertiser Suite from Microsoft

In a deal that reminds us of the close links between Microsoft Corp. and Facebook, the world's most popular social network is acquiring a marketing software suite from the world's biggest software company.

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 1st, 2013 Brian Jackson
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Apple’s iTunes U surpasses 1 billion downloads

Apple's educational content delivery platform has passed the 1 billion downloads mark in total, Apple announced today. iTunes U has also delivered more than 300 million pieces of content since it became an

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 28th, 2013 Brian Jackson
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Urgency without disruption – app solves problem for event planning

As the director of operations at an Ottawa hotel, Nyle Kelly wasn't satisfied when his customer's staff planner would leave their booked meeting and place a call on a cell phone or find

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 28th, 2013 Howard Solomon
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Guardly releases locating technology accurate to the room number

Toronto-based Guardly launched an update to its mobile personal safety solution yesterday with an Indoor Positioning System that can locate a users' precise location within a building. The update means that when someone

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 27th, 2013 Brian Jackson
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Microsoft launches Office 365 with rates tailored to small business

After stumbling twice with offering productivity applications as a service, Microsoft Corp. is finally giving what those who dream of in a cloud service have always wanted: a full-featured Office 365. The company

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 27th, 2013 Howard Solomon
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Videoconferencing credited for diverting business travel

Remember in the starry-eyed early 2000s when the next decade of advances in video conferencing, online collaboration, and broadband connectivity would greatly reduce the need to travel anywhere for business? Well it hasn’t

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 26th, 2013 Brian Jackson
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Internet Explorer 10 released for Windows 7

Internet Explorer 10 is now available for Windows 7 PCs, Microsoft announced today. Previously only available on Windows 8 and Windows RT, Internet Explorer (IE) 10 is far more focused on touch-screen interface

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 26th, 2013 Brian Jackson
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And the Oscar for most Facebook likes goes to…

Even if Sunday night’s Oscars broadcast was sort of boring, at least we could amuse ourselves by opening up our second screen of choice and taking part in the social media conversation about

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 25th, 2013 Brian Jackson
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A mobile gaming matchmaking service

While you could call it a mobile gaming matchmaking service, Lab Partners doesn't aim to find love connections for Angry Birds players. Rather, the program seeks to bring independent mobile game developers together

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 22nd, 2013 Jeff Jedras
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Feds invest in Niagara-area Internet startup

A Niagara-area Internet startup will benefit from some cash from the federal government to help it bring its technology to market. The Government of Canada, through FedDev, is investing in IIX Corp. (International

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 22nd, 2013 Jeff Jedras