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Rural broadband services provider Xplornet Communications Inc. is pleased to announce that its first 4G broadband satellite has passed all tests and is now operational, serving customers across Canada.  Launched in October 2011, ViaSat-1 is the highest capacity broadband satellite ever placed in orbit over North America, and Xplornet has acquired 100% of its Canadian Ka-band capacity to use exclusively to provide 4G broadband to rural and remote Canadians. Read the rest of this entry »

A new company has hit the ground running in Cook Street Village in Victoria. Upanup Studios is a digital agency that offers high-end web strategy, programming, development and design who will take advantage of Victoria’s tech talent and the region’s appeal for talented creative professionals to live and work. The company is set to provide a range of high-end web solutions to companies and organizations in the Pacific Northwest United States and Western Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada’s most credible and trusted consumer packaged goods (CPG) awards program, the Best New Product Awards (BNPAs), welcomes Shaw Media as the exclusive broadcast media partner. The partnership will include various campaigns showcasing the BNPA logo as well as BNPA winners being featured on Shaw’s extensive broadcast, online and video on demand networks including: Global Television, Food Network, HGTV, History Channel and Slice. Read the rest of this entry »

ViXS Systems Inc. has announced that the XCode5106 is the media processor single chip System on Chip (SoC) powering NEC Personal Computer’s TV tuner module in the VALUESTAR W and N series All-in-One Desktop PCs.  The VALUESTAR PC integrates all the functions of today’s desktop PC into the LCD screen making this is a very compact and space- saving design.   The integration capability of the XC5106 allows all the TV functions to be integrated on a small PCIe card, helping to save space and cost. Read the rest of this entry »

BelAir Networks large-scale Wi-Fi and multi-access small cell wireless systems for mobile and fixed service providers, and the only company focused solely on service provider customers, today announced the latest enhancements to its recently announced GigXone™ small cell wireless system. System improvements speed up and simplify the deployment and management of tens of 1000s of network access points (APs) while optimizing video-based applications and services. Read the rest of this entry »

Health technology company Infonaut, a MaRS client, announced it has signed a contract with the University Health Network to test its real-time disease surveillance system, Hospital Watch Live, at Toronto General Hospital. Designed to assist hospitals in controlling and stopping the spread of infectious organisms, Hospital Watch Live has been installed on the multi-organ transplant unit, an area of the hospital where all of the patients are on therapies to prevent organ rejection, which also suppresses their immune systems. Read the rest of this entry »

Educators from across the country are developing new learning opportunities that fuel the intrinsic motivation of students to take ownership of their learning and challenge traditional ideas of “teacher” and “learner”. Read the rest of this entry »

Angoss Software Corporation has officially announced its suite of KnowledgeCLOUD solutions, a product line which delivers predictive analytics in the Cloud to help organizations in the financial services, high tech, healthcare and retail industries gain competitive advantage in the areas of sales, marketing and risk management. Read the rest of this entry »

According to a survey commissioned by Minigroup, a Calgary-based developer of web-based collaboration software, small- and mid-sized company employees agree that tools such as a centralized web portal for storing and accessing documents, consolidated group task lists and the ability to edit documents jointly will increase workplace productivity. The study also found differences in employee preferences and styles in how they interact and do their work, based on gender, age and business size. Read the rest of this entry »

EXFO Inc. has announced the integration of its proprietary iOLM technology to the FTB-720 LAN/WAN Access test module. Thanks to the added features, the new FTB-720 iOLM speeds up and simplifies optical fiber assessment within access and LAN/WAN networks, as well as data centres. Read the rest of this entry »