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Apple diehards can’t wait to get an iWatch on their wrists

If Apple was to develop a smartwatch, Apple diehards would slap it on their wrist. That may seem like an obvious statement, but now there’s research to back it up. A new study

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 22nd, 2013 Jeff Jedras
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Enterprise vendors must know how to triage before marketing to SMBs

Although it is absolutely true in marketing that you can't be all things to all people, it is equally true that sometimes you need to expand the range of customers you are targeting

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 22nd, 2013 Francis Moran
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Why a Toronto startup wants to reinvent online project management

After using a range of unintegrated offerings to run its own digital project management and development solutions business, Toronto’s Hardboot decided to write its own project management suite to help its staff manage

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 22nd, 2013 Jeff Jedras
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Revenue replaces talent as most ulcer-inducing issue for Canadian startup CEOs

Concerns about how to grow revenue have replaced talent woes as the biggest worry keeping Canada’s startup CEOs awake at night, according to a new report. Revenue growth was named the top challenge

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 19th, 2013 Christine Wong
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Ontario billing and payment startup processes $2 million financing round

Kanata, Ont.-based Fusebill, a developer of automated payment and billing solutions, has closed a $2 million Series A financing round led by Omers Ventures and Covington Capital. "Fusebill provides our customers a simple

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 17th, 2013 Jeff Jedras
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New line of SMB-focused colour printers offer borderless printing

Printer vendor Memjet has brought its C6010 office color printer line, which offers edge-to-edge, full-coverage color printouts, to Canada. The C6010 prints at a default of 60 pages per minute, which Memjet claims

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 17th, 2013 Jeff Jedras
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Four reasons the Windows Start Button must return

When Microsoft Corp. launched Windows 8, its redesigned operating system for a mobile-first, touch-enabled world, one change immediately caught desktop and laptop users by surprise, and raised the ire of some: the absence

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 17th, 2013 Jeff Jedras
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Tablets being purchased as additional device, not PC replacement: NPD

More ammunition for the “PC survives” side of the “PC, dead or not?” debate, as a report from market research firm The NPD Group indicates tablets are supplementing, not replacing, traditional laptop and

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 17th, 2013 Jeff Jedras
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Kobo launches limited-edition Kobo Aura HD E Ink eReader

Kobo is launching its limited-edition, 6.8” Kobo Aura HD E Ink eReader. With what Kobo is calling a “book-inspired design,” it’s available in Ivory, Espresso and Onyx for $169.99 "From the beginning, Kobo

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 16th, 2013 Jeff Jedras
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4 e-commerce lessons to learn from Buytopia

We all know that running a retail business is a little bit different today than it was last millennium. While your grandmother may have pushed a cart around the aisles of Woolworth's and picked

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 15th, 2013 Brian Jackson
The secret of why INcubes’ Demo Day was a success

The secret of why INcubes’ Demo Day was a success

Of all the DemoDay's and similar events for Internet tech startups, investors, and influencers, I've been to in Canada, I think it's safe to say that Incubes' latest can be said to be

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 12th, 2013 A. Traviss Corry
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Document Genius a cloud solution for managing paper files

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Canada Ltd. launched a service, Document Genius, targeted at small to mid-sized businesses that need to manage paper-based documents, it announced April 10. The Web-based service doesn't require any

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 12th, 2013 Brian Jackson
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Toronto firm makes music interactive with Web site, iPad app

Soundstreams, a Toronto-based new music presenter with 30 years of commissions recorded by the CBC, is showcasing its musical history with a new web site and companion iPad app. According to the company,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 11th, 2013 Jeff Jedras
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Lessons we can all learn from RBC

Reports have emerged recently that 45 RBC employees are losing their jobs next month after RBC contracted a number of technological services to iGate, a California-based firm which specializes in sending jobs overseas.

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 11th, 2013 Monica Goyal
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Recovering economy doesn’t buoy PC sales

While the economy is turning around, it doesn’t appear that PC shipments are turning around with it. In fact, according to a recent report on worldwide PC shipments from analyst firm Gartner, things

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 11th, 2013 Jeff Jedras