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Kryos Makes Splash as Gold Sponsor of Blackberry Devcon in San Francisco

Posted by Stephen King on Wed, November 11, 2009 3:52 PM · Filed under Calgary , Events · No Comments
Calgary based Kryos is making waves in the BlackBerry Development community with their Velocity mobile platform. I've had the good fortune to travel with CEO, Trevor Nimegeers, through the California Market Access Program / PACT ... they are doing an amazing job. Velocity, in a nutshell, is a middleware platform... [more]

Canadian Companies rock PACT through California Market Access Program

Posted by Stephen King on Sun, November 1, 2009 10:46 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada , Venture Capital, Events, Success Stories, Government · 1 Comment
Last week, I spent two days in Sunnyvale, California, representing my company, Mob4Hire.com, in the Silicon Valley California Market Access program, which culminated in a 3 minute pitch at the annual PACT event at Plug and Play Tech Center.This was the final stage of several months of work, starting at... [more]

Mobile Apps Take Centre Stage at Dow Jones Wireless Innovation

Posted by Stephen King on Thu, March 19, 2009 12:18 PM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida , Wireless, Venture Capital, Events, Start-up, Web App, Associations, Web Development, Mobile · No Comments
I just spent a fascinating two days at the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City, CA; the site of the 2009 Dow Jones Wireless Innovation. The 200+ Attendees were a combination of VC's, reporters and executives from established mobile industry companies and startups who are setting the stage for the next... [more]

bnetTV Reports from Mobile World Congress Barcelona

Posted by Stephen King on Mon, March 2, 2009 11:01 AM · Filed under Calgary , Wireless, Video, Digital Media, Mobile · No Comments
Now that Mobile World Congress (MWC) has wrapped up (February 16th through 19th), and all the "Cafe con Leche" caffeine fueled conversations are complete, all that is left is to try to make sense of it all ... with 50,000 (ish) attendees and 8 trade show halls at Fira Barcelona,... [more]

Mob4Hire takes 2nd place at Mobile Monday Peer Awards in MWC Barcelona

Posted by Stephen King on Thu, February 26, 2009 2:40 PM · Filed under Calgary, Vancouver , Awards, Wireless, Events, Success Stories, Associations, Crowdsourcing, Mobile · 1 Comment
Last week was an amazing time at Mobile World Congress Barcelona. While attendance was down to about 50,000, the mood was upbeat in a trillion dollar industry that continues to post good growth despite recessionary times. The congress still had all the key players making decisions (except Apple who made... [more]

WiTec Networking Breakfast and WiTec Connections 2009

Posted by Stephen King on Wed, February 25, 2009 1:10 PM · Filed under Calgary , Wireless, Venture Capital, Associations · No Comments
As you probably know, "WiTec Alberta is an industry association focused on supporting the Wireless & Telecom industry in the Province of Alberta." They host a number of events, but just wanted to alert you to two upcoming ones: a) March 6. WiTec Networking Breakfast at Ranchman's Club in Calgary from... [more]

Pacific Northwest Wireless Summit, Day 1

Posted by Stephen King on Sun, January 18, 2009 10:15 PM · Filed under Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver , Wireless, Venture Capital, Events, Web App, Associations, Telecom, Government, Mobile · No Comments
Techvibes is a sponsor of the Pacfiic Northwest Wireless Summit, www.pnwsummit.com, so I thought it'd be cool if I posted after both days events. Today was the "Leadership Summit," with about 50 attendees from many different countries and cities (including Calgary ... ummm ... that was me), to talk about leadership,... [more]

RenoWorks.com Helps Home Contractors Deal with Recession

Posted by Stephen King on Thu, January 8, 2009 2:10 PM · Filed under Calgary , Success Stories, Web App, Digital Media · 1 Comment
You'd have to have your head under a rock for the past six months not to know that the housing industry in North America is in a terrible state. The ripple effect touches those that build houses, renovate houses and supply products such as windows, carpets, siding, cabinets, counter tops,... [more]

MoMoVan Party Welcomes Visitors and the New Mobile Monday Calgary Chapter

Posted by Stephen King on Tue, December 16, 2008 10:52 AM · Filed under Calgary, Vancouver , Wireless, Events, Associations, Web Development, Government, Mobile · No Comments
Last Wednesday night, I went to the Mobile Monday Vancouver (MoMoVan) Christmas Party at The Mill Marine Bistro on the Seawall in Coal Harbour. Mobile Monday is an informal grassroots event that happens around the world on the first Monday of every month for Mobile Application Developers, Carriers and connected... [more]

Mob4Hire appoints Stephen King as CEO

Posted by Stephen King on Wed, December 10, 2008 4:03 PM · Filed under Calgary , Wireless, Web 2.0, Start-up, Crowdsourcing, Mobile · 2 Comments
I first posted about Mob4Hire last January, after meeting President and Founder, Paul Poutanen, at an Industry Event in Calgary. I became an advisor for the firm ... we stayed in touch; I watched Mob4Hire.com launch, get proof of concept, get paying customers and finally, like all Killer Startups, reach... [more]