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The world’s first and only online marketplace solely dedicated to selling your used smartphones and tablets launched today. Founded and developed in Vancouver, Mobiopolis.com™ has been designed to be a powerful, yet simple-to-use tool. The website allows sellers to list their devices for free, suggests a sales price based on manufacturer/model sales trends, and even offers to showcase it in high-visibility areas for buyers to see. Read the rest of this entry »

Half of mobile phone users in North America today have smartphones, and that number is quickly growing. Canadian tech startup qwica interactive, a Langley-based company, is capitalizing on the rapidly emerging trend of seamless information gathering utilizing smartphones and scannable barcodes called QR codes. The qwica system simplifies the creation and management of mobile-optimized web pages for customers and provides complete solutions for long-term and outdoor applications. qwica allows users to quickly access information and interactive content—even in multiple languages—by scanning a qwica code on a bench, sign or other object with a smartphone camera. Read the rest of this entry »

The public release of KnockoutSurveys was announced earlier this week by Ottawa-based company Knockout Software Inc. This web browser-based application delivers a great user experience with unparalleled ease of use, allowing users to create their online surveys and polls, then distribute them instantly via a web link, an email, or embed the survey or poll directly in a blog or website. Results can later be analyzed directly from within the application. Read the rest of this entry »

Companies across Canada who hire young people are being asked to try a free online employee training resource, and share their feedback about its effectiveness. In 2010, The Centre for Skills Development & Training in Ontario launched “Summer in Smallywood,” the online game-based training tool developed by Untold Entertainment that helps young employees enhance their workplace skills. Read the rest of this entry »

Intuit wants to know who will create the next great personal or small business finance application and what will they invent? The company is offering developers the opportunity to use one of its key ingredients to innovate and perhaps create the next Quicken, QuickBooks or Mint.com. For the first time in its history, Intuit is opening the application programming interfaces to its financial data service in the U.S. and Canada by giving third-party developers access to one of the key ingredients that has made Quicken, QuickBooks, Mint.com and FinanceWorks some of the world’s most successful financial management programs. Read the rest of this entry »

California-based Pinger has announced a new iOS application for Canada. Pinger is a free phone app that turns iPads and iPods into mobile phones and adds a free phone line to iPhones. Pinger users can text and call for free to any phone in the U.S. and Canada, including smartphones, landlines and basic mobile phones. Read the rest of this entry »

Voices.com, the Ontario-based online marketplace that connects voice-over talents with businesses, today launched the first-ever iPad application for casting voice-overs. Now available for download from iTunes, the free app gives users the full functionality of the Voices.com website on their tablets. Voice seekers can search, audition, hire and pay voice talent. Voice-over artists can review listings of paid work, record and edit auditions, and submit them directly to potential clients. Read the rest of this entry »

ViXS Systems Inc. has announced the general availability of its MoCA 2.0 solution.  The XConnex™ 1000 MoCA 2.0 Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver and the XConnex 1030 MoCA 2.0 stand-alone Media Access Controller and Physical Layer (MAC/PHY) integrated SoC introduces a highly integrated and cost effective market solution. .  ViXS’ MoCA 2.0 provides maximum throughput combined with new low power management features incorporated in its MoCA 2.0 MAC/PHY IC and innovative RF silicon design to exceed stringent low power requirements. In addition, enhanced security features have been developed for increased levels of content protection while maintaining backwards compatibility and interoperability to existing MoCA 1.0 and 1.1 deployed network solutions. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian mobile coupon software provider retailcommon has announced an exciting partnership with Geomedia, a specialist in media analytics and Canada’s largest manager of geo-targeted advertising. With over 8 million smartphone users in Canada it is increasingly important for retailers to be able to connect with consumers on their mobile devices. retailcommon, a market leader in the mobile coupon industry, enables B2C companies to drive consumers to physical locations by providing them with a software service that delivers e-coupons to consumers’ mobile devices. Read the rest of this entry »

To better help financial organizations improve customer experience while increasing cost-savings and remaining compliant in an ever changing regulatory landscape, Silanis, a Montreal-based provider of enterprise electronic signature solutions with the largest e-signature deployments, will host a webcast on infrastructure readiness and how to integrate with e-signatures. This complimentary event will take place Thursday, September 6, 2012, from 2:00pm-3:00pm ET. IT and operations stakeholders in the financial services sector interested in attending may register online. Read the rest of this entry »