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by Karim Kanji
on Thu, March 18, 2010 7:57 AM
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Whether Canada owned the podium or not, one thing is clear: The Olympic Consortium, headed up by CTV, owned the Olympics. Over the course of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, over 28 million videos were viewed and more than 215 million pages were viewed on CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca.According to their...
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by Karim Kanji
on Fri, March 12, 2010 2:40 PM
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What is Chevrolet doing at South by Southwest (#sxsw)? They're not showing off their new 2020 concept cars. The music, film and interactive conference in Austin, Texas will be introduced to three emerging technologies that Chevrolet is looking to promote and test: location-based social networking, quick response codes, and augmented...
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by Rob Lewis
on Fri, March 12, 2010 2:02 PM
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Thanks to the Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's recent Budget announcement on Section 116, this year's CVCA Annual Conference in Ottawa on May 26-28th should have a celebratory feel to it. And no doubt Conference headliner Rick Mercer will have plenty of new material ready for the audience after questioning Flaherty's...
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by Rob Lewis
on Fri, March 12, 2010 12:16 PM
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Northern Voice Blogging Conference in Vancouver on May 7th and 8th is offering six travel bursaries of $500 each and the organizing committee will be awarding these bursaries based on a number of criteria, including:
The contributions you can make to the conference
Your level of need
The quality of...
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by Rob Lewis
on Thu, March 11, 2010 12:52 PM
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Robots and Pencils' iPhoneDevCamp 2 (yyc) is taking place on Saturday, March 13th at Calgary Technologies Inc. in the Alastair Ross Technology Centre.
The one-day barcamp style un-conference runns from 9:00am to 5:00pm and is open to people wanting to learn more about iPhone Apps development, marketing, business models and funding.
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by Robert Janelle
on Fri, March 5, 2010 11:30 AM
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When Google sent their camera-equipped Street View car to cruise Canadian cities in early 2009, the drive down city streets became awfully controversial.
As the car-mounted camera snapped pictures of the streets, capturing not only the landscape but the people who were around at the time, there was much debate about...
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by Robert Janelle
on Fri, March 5, 2010 10:01 AM
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Old 20th century industrial models are holding back the expansion of high speed Internet access across North America, according to a Harvard law professor.
Delivering the keynote address at the University of Ottawa launch conference for Centre for Law, Technology and Society, Yochai Benkler detailed the challenges related to expanding next...
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by Rob Lewis
on Wed, March 3, 2010 3:01 PM
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Fresh off the highest-rated season yet, CBC Television’s Dragons' Den is embarking on an epic audition tour across Canada.
Due to overwhelming demand, producers are expanding the search to over 40 stops. From the Great White North to the edges of every coast, Dragons' Den is seeking Canadians with creative ideas...
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by Karim Kanji
on Sun, February 28, 2010 9:10 PM
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According to a press release offered by CTV, 99% of Canadians have experienced the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics through Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium. This figure combines the Consortium's print, internet, television and radio platforms. This figure also represents 33+ million Canadians. In fact, since day...
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by Doug van Spronsen
on Thu, February 25, 2010 1:42 PM
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Startup Edmonton, an entrepreneur led nonprofit working to cultivate the emerging local tech startup community, unveiled the ten startups that will be featured at the inaugural edition of Launch Party Edmonton next week on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at the Matrix Hotel.
Taking cues from Vancouver's highly popular events, the innagural...
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