‘Secret agent’ wrist watch says the time is now for crowdfunding

Division Furtive is an independent Montréal-based watchmaker that has designed a wrist watch where the traditional rotating hour and minute hands are replaced by horizontal linear cursors. Their Kickstarter campaign is currently still in

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 22nd, 2012 Brian Jackson

Yahoo launches advertising dashboard for small business

Yahoo launched a free marketing dashboard on Wednesday to boost its advertising appeal for small and midsized businesses by simplifying digital marketing for them.  The move comes as part of new CEO Scott

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 2nd, 2012 Cameron Scott

Startup Canada tour underway in Nova Scotia

Startup Canada, a national movement designed to sow the seeds of entrepreneurship, has kicked off its tour across the country in Nova Scotia.The tour opened with its first town hall in Halifax yesterday,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 20th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

Tetra Pak cartons become video game controllers in AR promotion

When most kids play games with their Tetra Pak juice boxes, it likely involves shooting jets of liquid out of the straw at one another – but that may soon change thanks to

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 12th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Startup Canada campaign offers opportunity to build ‘startup culture’

by Christine Wong Startup Canada officially got off the ground today when a beta version of its Web site went live. The new charitable foundation is hoping to build a national strategy to

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 1st, 2012 Christine Wong

Undressing the social media success of a guy in his underwear

Would you go online to watch an average Canadian guy order pizza, meet a blind date and belly dance -- all while wearing nothing but his underwear -- at his house for 25

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 27th, 2012 Christine Wong

Video Rewind: Anti-spam advice from MessageLabs

Canada's anti-spam law - it's been debated by politicians for years and security companies have long warned that businesses need to prepare for it, and now it's finally happening. Canada'a parliament passed Bill

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 19th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

SOPA would lead to ‘Mad Max’-style Darknet [ExpressIT]

In a remarkable example of a grassroots campaign gone viral, several websites including Google, Reddit, Wikipedia , BoingBoing, Imgur and Tucows, are planning an unprecedented Internet "strike" Wednesday to protest controversial anti-piracy legislation

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 18th, 2012 Jaikumar Vijayan

Canadian voter apathy extends to social media realm

If a politician sends a tweet, but nobody is following them, does it even have an impact? That’s an existential question that political campaign organizers from each of the major federal parties may

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 27th, 2011 Brian Jackson

Mobile campaign distribution for the layman

Today's mobile phone marketplace is a myriad of devices and platforms - a dizzying maze of developer hurdles for marketers that want to execute a good campaign that gets onto the small screen.Between

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 9th, 2010 Brian Jackson

What another Conservative minority government means for IT

About halfway through the 37-day election campaign the Information Technology Association of Canada sent an open letter to each of the three top party leaders – but they didn't get a single response.

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 15th, 2008 Brian Jackson

Obama’s creaming McCain

If you think text messaging is driving your your cell phone costs too high, just thank your stars you didn't get Barack Obama's bill for $290,000 in text messages.That's what the Democratic candidate

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 2nd, 2008 Brian Jackson

Email marketing still delivers results for B2B campaigns

Social media marketing fueled by the popularity of such sites as Facebook and MySpace might be making waves in the media but for many businesses traditional email marketing still delivers desirable results.

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 21st, 2008 Nestor Arellano

Blogger uses “Google bomb” to show McCain in poor light

A political blogger is using a technique known as "Google bombing" to enlist the aid of fellow partisan bloggers to boost the search engine rankings of nine news stories that reflect poorly on

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 23rd, 2008 Heather Havenstein