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QuickMobile, a Vancouver-based provider of mobile event app solutions, has closed a $3.2 million round of funding led by existing investors, BDC IT Venture Fund and Vancity. The infusion of capital will allow QuickMobile to add the resources required to meet the unprecedented demand for its new multi-event mobile app platform and continue its international expansion. This funding follows $2.6 million of equity investments received in 2011 from angel investors and Vancity, and a $3.3 million round led by BDC IT Venture Fund in 2012. In addition, the company has recently added several members to its senior leadership team, including industry veterans in marketing, services, and product management. Read the rest of this entry »

The 2013 Canadian Telecom Summit is pleased to announce that The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry and Minister of State (Agriculture), will address The Summit on Wednesday, June 5. Minister Paradis has spoken at our past two events; we are honoured to have him return to deliver the conference closing keynote speech this year. He joins a cadre of 70 industry leaders addressing Canada’s most important gathering of the information and communications technology industries. Read the rest of this entry »

Eyelit Inc., a manufacturing software provider for visibility, control, and coordination of manufacturing operations for the aerospace & defense, discrete electronics, semiconductor, and photovoltaic (solar) industries, announced today the forthcoming availability of its new Special Processing module. Read the rest of this entry »

For nearly three decades, the CATAAlliance Innovation and Leadership Awards program has been the most prestigious annual awards conferred on individuals and corporations by Canada’s advanced technology community. They are presented in recognition of exceptional contributions made to the creation of technology-based industrial strength in Canada. CATAAlliance in partnership with our Gala host, the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, will acknowledge one outstanding individual or company in each of the following award categories: Read the rest of this entry »

Long a staple of IT managers, marketers and SEO professionals, InSite started in 2005 as the very first combined spelling and broken link checker for websites. The latest release, InSite 4, builds on its strengths by delivering a more sophisticated and nuanced tool to inspect varied elements of today’s websites. Video has recently emerged as an essential content channel for online strategies and this will continue into the foreseeable future. In response to this trend, InSite 4 is the industry’s first link checker with the ability to detect if embedded YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion videos have become subject to a copyright claim or other removal request. Read the rest of this entry »

Kashoo, the makers of simple cloud accounting software for small business, recently surpassed two major milestones: 100,000 registered users and 50,000 downloads of its industry-leading iPad app. Kashoo recently released a new version of its iPad app that includes a number of great new features including attachments, easy printing via AirPrint, faster data entry, a variety of beautiful, client-ready invoice templates and more. The company also released a significant update to its web app in late April. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based Tapstream has announced the immediate availability of Smart Shortlinks for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows Phone and Windows 8. Designed to help mobile marketers increase app downloads, the Smart Shortlinks identify a consumer’s mobile device-type, and then use that information to redirect them to a pre determined destination, ensuring consumers reach the correct app. It then tracks the number of activations and value of users who came from each link. Read the rest of this entry »

Hosted VoIP, Voice, Video, IT and Data services provider BroadConnect Telecom has unveiled new business, private, and hybrid hosting solutions delivered via cloud. This launch comes in efforts to meet customer demands for cost-efficient virtualization for application, data and storage hosting. BroadConnect’s uniquely advanced Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) presents businesses of all sizes with access to cloud solutions that are both redundant and reliable. Read the rest of this entry »

August 2013 Update: Where to Buy – now with Canadian sources. Starting this month, the New Avengers Assemble Thor Hammer 3D Night Light from Canadian designer 3DLightFX will be available exclusively at Target Stores across the entire United States. The 3D Light is battery operated and comes with a very cool 3D Crack sticker making it appear as though the Thor Hammer has been thrown into your wall. Read the rest of this entry »

Pioneer virtualization and cloud management software developer Embotics Corporation announced earlier this week that it has joined the OpenStack community. As an active member of the OpenStack community, Embotics is continuing its commitment to integrate with OpenStack in future Embotics vCommander releases.

Embotics is executing a strategy of brokering IT services from any hypervisor, any cloud and remains committed to giving its enterprise customers the freedom of choice to avoid cloud platform lock-in. While VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V are commonly recognized today as leading on-premises platforms, OpenStack is emerging as another platform of interest for enterprises.

OpenStack was founded by Rackspace Hosting, NASA and a host of other companies. It has grown into a global software community of developers who are collaborating on an extremely scalable open source cloud operating system and standard. The group’s mission is to enable any organization to create and offer cloud computing services running on standard hardware.

Embotics’ flagship product, vCommander, was developed for mid-sized to large enterprises that are building and managing clouds. The platform provides multi-hypervisor management, automation and self-service provisioning to help enterprises gain visibility and control of their virtualized environments. Embotics vCommander deploys in 15 minutes and delivers the industry’s fastest time to value. vCommander also provides a multi-tenant cost model, analytics and cross-platform workload migration to help customers make economically justified platform decisions for their virtualized data centers, setting it apart from other cloud management platforms.

“OpenStack has gained momentum in the industry, and the OpenStack community represents an intelligent collaboration of cloud computing experts,” said Jay Litkey, CEO of Embotics. “Our participation in the community and commitment to integrate OpenStack services into upcoming vCommander releases delivers on our vow to support any hypervisor and any cloud, which is essential in a landscape where data centers are increasingly managing multiple hypervisors across disparate cloud platforms.”