21st December 2011

Canadian Farmers Are Adopting Mobile Technology

farm credit canadaCanadian producers are keeping up with the times when it comes to the use of mobile technology. Farmers have been as quick to purchase a smartphone (29%) as other Canadians (30%), according to a recent Farm Credit Canada (FCC) Vision panel study (PDF).  Read the rest of this entry »

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21st December 2011

Klipfolio Dashboard Update Adds Requested Features

klipfolioKlipfolio Inc has released a year-end update for its mobile Business Intelligence dashboard, adding customer-requested features. Among the new features, Klipfolio has added a Facebook connector to let users access their Facebook Insights and their Facebook feed. Using Facebook’s Graph API explorer and FQL (Facebook Query Language) customers can now extract metrics from Facebook and monitor them on their dashboard. Read the rest of this entry »

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21st December 2011

iLOOKABOUT Announces 2 Million Credit Facility Commitment Letter With BDC

ilookaboutVisual and data intelligence company iLOOKABOUT Corp. has announced the signing of a commitment letter with BDC Capital Inc, a wholly- owned subsidiary of Business Development Bank of Canada  for a $2 million four-year secured term credit facility. The facility provides for the distribution of the financing in stages, subject to the Company meeting specified performance milestones. Read the rest of this entry »

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21st December 2011

Aastra Now A VMware OEM Partner

aastraOntario-based enterprise communications provider Aastra has announced that the company has signed an OEM partnership with VMware, whose Canadian headquarters are located in Burlington. Through this new partnership, Aastra is currently enabling businesses to easily reap the benefits of virtualization for voice and unified communications. Read the rest of this entry »

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21st December 2011

Tucows Announces Commencement of Dutch Auction Tender Offer

tucowsToronto-based Tucows Inc., a provider of domain names, email and other Internet services, announced yesterday that it is commencing its modified “Dutch auction” tender offer to repurchase up to 6,500,000 shares of its common stock, representing approximately 12.2% of Tucows’ outstanding shares, as previously announced on December 15, 2011. The closing price of Tucows common stock on the NYSE Amex on December 19, 2011 was $0.75. Read the rest of this entry »

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21st December 2011

Flowfinity Opens Toronto Data Centre

flowfinityFlowfinity Wireless Inc., a provider of enterprise mobile apps for business process automation, today announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art data centre in Toronto, Canada. The data center will support secure, scalable, on-demand hosting services for rapid enterprise mobile apps deployment. Read the rest of this entry »

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20th December 2011

Fibre Optic Network Coming To More Manitoba Towns In 2012

mts-allstreamManitoba residents in Neepawa, Minnedosa, Killarney and Carberry will soon enjoy the next generation of high definition television and faster broadband connections when MTS deploys its fibre-to-the-home network (FiON) to these four communities in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

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20th December 2011

Citytv And SCN Sign Affiliate Agreement

CitytvIn an aggressive pursuit to increase its presence in key markets across Canada, Citytv has signed an affiliate agreement with Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN), the two scnnetworks announced today. Beginning January 2, Citytv programming will air from 3 p.m. to 5:59 a.m. CST every day, at which time the network will officially be called ‘Citytv on SCN’.  Throughout the remainder of the day, the station will be referred to as ‘SCN’, and will continue to air educational and children’s programming, commercial free. Read the rest of this entry »

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20th December 2011

RuggedCom Launches RuggedAPE

ruggedcomRuggedCom Inc., a designer and manufacturer of industrial strength networks for mission-critical applications in harsh environments, announces the launch of a utility grade computing line module for the RuggedBackbone™ RX1500, known as RuggedAPE™ (Rugged Application Processing Engine). Read the rest of this entry »

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20th December 2011

Canadians Have High Expectations For Technology In 2012

rogersCanadians predict faster network speeds, smaller laptops and purchases over their wireless device in 2012 and beyond, according to a new survey1commissioned by Rogers Communications. The survey finds that most Canadian smartphone or tablet users feel technology will improve their lives in the future. Read the rest of this entry »

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