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The AuroraMAX Online Observatory and the International Space Station (ISS) are on a quest to capture the Northern Lights from Earth and space as part of a new pilot project to compare and share images and videos of Canada’s aurora. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for FedNor, today announced the addition of more than 6,000 data sets to the Open Data Portal.The Open Data Portal now has more than 271,000 data sets from 17 participating organizations. Read the rest of this entry »

Well-known Canadian entrepreneur, author and star of CBC’s the Dragons’ Den and ABC’s Shark Tank Robert Herjavec will deliver the keynote presentation at the 2012 Canadian Internet Forum (CIF) in Ottawa on February 27, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Waterloo Region’s tech sector growth trajectory continues this week with a celebration at The Communitech Hub of expansions and job growth – an open house event to be attended this morning by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. The celebration marks growth milestones including: Read the rest of this entry »

Research In Motion has announced that BlackBerry® smartphones running on the powerful new BlackBerry® 7 and BlackBerry® 7.1 Operating Systems (OS) have been awarded FIPS 140-2 certification by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC). FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 is recognized by the U.S. and Canadian governments and is required under the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA). Read the rest of this entry »

The Saskatchewan Motion Picture Industry Association (SMPIA) is excited to announce that we will be shining a spotlight on Saskatchewan interactive and traditional media partnerships at the Banff World Media Festival June 10-13th, 2012. Thanks to a Culture on Go: Market Access Grant from the Saskatchewan Arts Board, SMPIA will lead an industry delegation of Saskatchewan cross-media professionals to showcase their works as well as meet with creators and investors as part of the official Banff Festival program. Read the rest of this entry »

The Social Media paradigm is now extending to the funding of start-up companies, according to Canada’s largest high-tech organization CATAAlliance, and Canada is in danger of falling behind the U.S. in enabling small business to access capital. Read the rest of this entry »

The city of Halifax recently launched a pilot program to aide patients suffering from Alzheimer’s’ disease and other forms of dementia. According to Laipac Technology, the company issuing the service, the program is the first of its kind to launch in Canada and is a joint effort between Halifax Regional Police and the Alzheimer’s Society of Nova Scotia. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has confirmed that the new wholesale rates for independent Internet service providers (ISPs) will be implemented on February 1, 2012. The large telephone and cable companies will proceed as scheduled with their proposed implementation plans, with the exception of the Bell companies. Their implementation plan has been modified on an interim basis while the CRTC resolves issues raised by the Canadian Network Operators Consortium. Read the rest of this entry »

Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, is holding a public Symposium, Beware of Surveillance by Design: Standing Up for Freedom and Privacy, to raise awareness of the serious privacy implications of online surveillance and proposed federal “lawful access” legislation. Read the rest of this entry »