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Social media is gaining a foothold in Canada’s workplaces, with personal and professional use overlapping at work, according to the latest survey results from global workforce solutions provider Kelly Services®. Approximately 15 percent of employees approve of the personal use of social media during work hours, while many more view it as disruptive to workplace harmony. Read the rest of this entry »

Protecode, an Ottawa-based provider of open source license management solutions, today launched the hosted version of its popular System 4™ open source scanning and license management solution. ProtecodeCloud™ is a Software as a Service (SaaS) code scanning tool that allows organizations to manage open source licenses and obligations in the cloud, without having to invest in infrastructure and costly upgrades. Read the rest of this entry »

On June 14th and 15th Saskatoon will host the sold-out Mobile And Social Media Conference, which will offer two days of engaging presentations from the world’s most prolific social media and mobile companies including FreshBooks, Clarity.fm, Deloitte, BlueFuego, WestJet, WeSprout, Lovesocial, Vanilla Forums, Localmind and CBC. Read the rest of this entry »

The War of 1812 was a dramatic event in Canadian history. But what was at stake, and who won? A major exhibition opening at the Canadian War Museum today reveals that the answer to this question depends on perspective. 1812, supported by National Presenting Sponsor TD Bank Group and National Supporting Sponsor Ancestry.ca, explores the war through the eyes of the four main participants: Canadians (including Canadian First Peoples), Americans, the British, and Native Americans. Read the rest of this entry »

Email filtering experts Roaring Penguin Software Inc., makers of the acclaimed CanIt-PRO, CanIt-Domain-PRO, CanIt Archiver and Hosted CanIt spam filtering service, has announced the release of CanIt 8.2. This release includes many improvements to existing features and adds many new features including: Read the rest of this entry »

PEER 1 Hosting, a Vancouver-based IT hosting provider, has announced the launch of HPC Self Serve Cloud, powered by the company’s Zunicore public cloud platform. PEER 1 Hosting’s HPC Self Serve Cloud delivers a flexible and cost-effective high performance computing environment by fusing virtual and physical servers with a private net. The result is a seamless, self-serve solution that is fast, secure and available on-demand. Read the rest of this entry »

CounterPath Corporation, an award-winning provider of desktop and mobile VoIP software products and solutions based in Vancouver, has announced that it intends to complete a non-brokered private placement of up to 1,400,000 units of the Company at CDN$2.50 per Unit for total gross proceeds of up to CDN$3,500,000.  The Company may increase the size of the private placement if warranted.  The Company plans to use the proceeds from the Offering towards general working capital. Read the rest of this entry »