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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 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
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on Fri, March 12, 2010 9:59 AM
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Last week the Financial Post's Garry Marr pointed out How To Lose Money On Real Estate Moves and pegged hefty transaction costs as the reason Canadians don't move more often.
Canadian homeowners will be happy to know that the Competition Bureau lodged a complaint last month challenging the rules imposed by...
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by Rob Lewis
on Wed, March 10, 2010 10:41 AM
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Fredericton-based Radian6 announced today that they will be launching a social media monitoring desktop app called the Radian6 Engagement Console in April. According to a blog post on their site today, the Engagement Console is in private beta and currently only available to Radian6 customers.
One of the biggest hurdles to jump...
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by Karim Kanji
on Tue, March 9, 2010 8:52 AM
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If you haven't used or even heard of the mobile location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla then you are in the minority. Such services, in case you don't know yet, are used to tell the world where you’re visiting, And now a company has created a service that can...
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by Karim Kanji
on Wed, March 3, 2010 8:40 PM
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Even though Valentine's Day has long passed, there is always time to talk about love. And with the weather in my hometown of Toronto feeling springlike, I thought, "What better time to talk about love than now!" Especially, if it involves the internet and $5000. And ...
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by Prashanth Gopalan
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It isn't often that you get to meet the author of a newly released business book in the few months just after it's been released. And you don't nearly often get to pepper them with questions of your choice. I was able to do both with Hugh MacPhie, author of...
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