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Qualcomm President and Chief Operating Officer Steve Mollenkopf will be the plenary session speaker on Monday, June 18 at the IEEE MTT-S 2012 International Microwave Symposium (IMS). As a pioneer of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology, Mollenkopf will address the design complexity and deployment challenges of 3G and 4G chipsets drives in his talk “3G/4G Chipsets and the Mobile Data Explosion.” Read the rest of this entry »

The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI) has just announced an evening with cult animator and Academy Award nominee, Don Hertzfeldt, including a screening of his latest film, It’s Such a Beautiful Day on March 5th at The Royal Cinema. Read the rest of this entry »

A Thinking Ape and Silicon Sisters are hosting a White Day Hackathon on Saturday, March 10th in Vancouver. While this event is designed to create a coding environment that’s friendly to female developers, everyone is welcome to come and participate (50 spots available). Tickets are $10.00 and available for purchase. There are also sponsorship opportunities for those who are interested. Read the rest of this entry »

Lean Startup Vancouver is a Meetup Group for startups and agile businesses who want to transform how their products are built and launched by learning from the experience of others who are influenced by the Lean Startup, Lean, and Agile methodology. Through every other monthly events you will have a chance to compare notes on operational, development, and business issues with peers and learn from guest speakers. Read the rest of this entry »

Via CDMN: On April 24^th to 25^th, 2012, more than 2,000 delegates – representing industry, government and academia will travel from across Canada and from as far away as Brazil and the Netherlands to gather in Stratford, Ontario to attend CDMN’s fourth annual Canada 3.0 Digital Media Forum. Read the rest of this entry »

Cirque du Soleil has announced that it is investing in a significant minority equity stake in Sid Lee that will mesh the combined talents of both Quebec organizations in order to nurture innovative projects for the benefit of their respective clients and partners. Read the rest of this entry »

A recent Analyst Insight report from Aberdeen Group Vice President and Research Fellow Derek Brink outlines the benefits to organizations of classifying data in order to effectively protect it. The report, titled Does Your Enterprise Classify Its Data? analyzes over five years of data loss prevention (DLP) research by Aberdeen, and concludes that data classification is a capability that is consistently linked with the best performing organizations in the area of data loss prevention. Read the rest of this entry »

SES Toronto, being held this June 11th through 13th at the Toronto Hyatt Regency will be packed with sessions covering topics such as PPC management, keyword research, SEO, social media, local, mobile, link building, duplicate content, multiple site issues, video optimization, site optimization, and usability, while offering high-level strategy, keynotes, an exhibit floor with companies that can help you grow your business, networking events, parties and more. Read the rest of this entry »

We are on the cusp of a new information revolution – a quantum leap in technology – and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo is leading the way. With the world’s largest concentration of researchers working to harness the forces of quantum mechanics, the institute stands to transform computing, communications and other technologies. Read the rest of this entry »