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Curated news aims to fill the Google Reader void

With the looming death of Google Reader, many news-hungry netizens are looking for new sources to feed their hunger for news and opinions, and...

Now you can pay your taxes with your credit card

An online payment processor based in Boston and with offices in Toronto has received approval from the Canada Revenue Agency to let Canadians pay...

Small businesses get hosting package from WordPress

Open source blogging tool developer WordPress has launched a Web site building suite aimed at small businesses. WordPress Business offers ad-free site hosting, free domain...

Markham vendor takes agenda management solution online

Markham, Ont.-based eScribe has launched an online, subscription-based version of its electronic meeting and agenda management solution. According to the vendor, eScribe Online is designed...

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...

Open data project for Toronto City Hall seeks crowdfunding

A Montreal-based non-profit organization launched a crowdfunding campaign today to help make municipal politics as appealing and accessible as a Grey Cup bet between...

Industry Canada encourages private R&D investment in small firms

The federal government has updated the Industrial and Regional Benefits (IRB) policy to encourage firms receiving major government defence and security contracts to in...

Open data project for Toronto City Hall seeks crowdfunding

A Montreal-based non-profit organization launched a crowdfunding campaign today to help make municipal politics as appealing and accessible as a Grey Cup bet between...

Consumer rights group wants a Wireless Code

Consumer rights group the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is pushing for the creation of a comprehensive “Wireless Code” that it claims could solve...

Google+ turns one — but is there much to celebrate?

Aside from announcing a few new Google+ features, Google made no fanfare over the first anniversary of its social network at its annual developer's conference this week.

Brampton’s Webpage not just another digital facelift

When the City of Brampton decided to revamp its Intranet and Internet portals, the growing Ontario municipality was dead set on making sure improvements...

Ottawa striving hard to hang on to tech talent

Learning many lessons from the 2000 dotcom bust, Ottawa organizations are taking decisive steps to prevent an exodus of the city's exceptional IT talent. One of these, is attracting international wireless companies to Silicon Valley North.

Edmonton police BI rollout inches towards crime prediction

Companies have long used business intelligence tools to identify sales trends, the Edmonton Police Services hopes an analytics tool from IBM would soon not just report on crime patterns but also perform forecasting and prediction

Governments “contracting out” cyber-attacks to criminal networks

A computer containing information about a next-generation U.S. fighter jet is attacked, the Dalai Lama's office is infected with a Trojan, opposition newspapers in a former Soviet republic are hit with a DOS attack - it's the reality of today's cyber-security environment. A former director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's national cyber-security division warns that businesses are too complacent, and need a different mindset.

Tax break makes new PC purchases “attractive” for small Canadian firms

A generous tax break offered by the federal government may boost PC sales by small Canadian firms before the year is out.

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