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

Screach taps journalists for inbound marketing push

This is the eighth article in a continuing monthly series chronicling the growth path of Screach, a startup based in Newcastle upon Tyne in England’s North East. Screach is an interactive digital media platform that

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 10th, 2012 Francis Moran

Entrepreneurs need (and deserve) to take vacation too

In this blog post, the Digital Media Zone presents a piece by one of its entrepreneurs, Kanika Gupta, the founder of SoJo: Back from a wonderful vacation, I started this week beaming with energy

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 30th, 2012 Lauren Clegg

Developer’s detention spikes interest in Montreal’s Cryptocat

Interest in the free encrypted Web chat service offered by Montreal-based Cryptocat has increased following the detention and interrogation of its developer by United States border officials. The Cryptocat Project is developing a

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 8th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

Do Not Call List should be put on ice

By Brian Jackson The federal government continued limping along in its support of the Do Not Call List with the budget. The stop-gap funding was tagged on as an afterthought to support what

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 9th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Top 3 unified communications vendors ranked by SMBs

Ease of installation, effortless integration, trouble-free management, and straight forward and competitive pricing. These are what small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) shopping for a unified communications (UC) system say they are looking

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 4th, 2011 Nestor Arellano

A new brand experience

By Andrew Berthoff I've worked in or, rather, with the Canadian technology industry for more than 20 years, first from the perspective of a journalist following and reporting on the scene, and then

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 20th, 2011 Andrew Berthoff

Most BlackBerry owners not concerned about government negotiations

After a series of governments threatened BlackBerry bans, Research in Motion (RIM) negotiated to avoid service cut-offs. Canadians are split on whether the devices are actually now less secure or not. In a poll

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 10th, 2010 Brian Jackson

Canadian SMBs save big with hosted VoIP services

Toronto lawyer Zak Muscovitch can take calls wherever he is, on a desk phone, mobile phone or computer. Incoming faxes show up in his e-mail. "I get voice mail without having to log

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 9th, 2010 Grant Buckler

Bell Canada ranks first in cell phone complaints tally

The Commission for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS), an organization funded by the telecom industry to resolve complaints against companies in the space, released a report last week indicating that billing errors and

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 5th, 2010 Nestor Arellano

Three in four tweets ignored

If a Tweet is posted on the Web and nobody sees it, is it worth the bother?That's essentially the question social media analytics company Sysomos posed in a survey of 1.2 billion posts

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 14th, 2010 Bob Brown

15 amazing apps for planes, trains and automobiles

You're going on a big road trip, and you've loaded your smartphone with a GPS app, Google Maps, a weather app, and perhaps a currency converter tool. Now what? Smartphones have opened a

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 8th, 2010 Christopher Null

Android phones still behind BlackBerry and iPhone

The Android army is celebrating the latest figures from Nielsen that show the Android mobile operating system is top dog. But Android fans might want to hold off on the balloon drop. Google's

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 7th, 2010 Ian Paul

Developers itching to build apps for RIM PlayBook

Although the full application development story is still being ironed out for Research in Motion's newly announced PlayBook tablet, developers are anxious to get their hands on one and start building anyway.They also

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 6th, 2010 Paul Krill