Canada's Allstream, a business communications provider, announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit theater award for Collaboration Partner of the Year in Canada.
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Nearly nine in 10 Canadians fail to complete all planned tasks in a given workday, a new LinkedIn study has found. LinkedIn, which has more than five million members in Canada, discovered that unplanned tasks such as unscheduled phone calls, emails, and meetings are the primary cause for throwing off the completion of a day's to-do list.
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Toronto-based game developer XMG Studio has released their next mobile game.
Designed by fashion lovers for fashion lovers, Fashion Star Boutique is an "innovative fashion experience" that is inspired by runways around the world and teaches aspiring designers how to manage their own line of apparel and their own clothing store.
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Want to stream an automated playlist of the best music videos for free? Victoria-born Chartbrain has your back.
A solo project built by Canadian developer James Gagan—who was involved in the somewhat similar Songspin startup—Chartbrain's premise is beautifully simple. First, select a music chart. There's Billboard, Last.fm, Hype Machine, and more. Next, choose a countdown (from the bottom of the list up to the top song), a top 10 countdown, or a shuffle. You can also start with a specific song.
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede, and as such, Canada Post has decided to mark the occasion with a couple of high-tech commemorative stamps.
The stamps, designed by Calgarian artist Xerxes Irani, are yet another example of using augmented reality (AR) to give customers a more interactive experience.
When used in conjunction with the Canada Post Stamps Alive app for smart phones and tablets, one stamp depicts a virtual horse you are able to interact with, pet, and change its colour, while the other stamp reveals a barrel-racing game, where you are able to try and beat your own time, or submit your score to facebook and twitter.
All in all, Canada Post seems to be innovatively looking for alternative revenue streams.
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Last month Techvibes reported that Toronto's JOLT had become a member of the Global Accelerator Network (formerly TechStars network).
The Global Accelerator Network (GAN) is an alliance championed by TechStars and originally created as part of the White House’s Startup America Initiative. JOLT was not the first Canadian accelerator to become part of the GAN - Montreal's FounderFuel has also leveraged the TechStars brand north of the border.
Today Communitech's new tech accelerator, HYPERDRIVE, announced it will become the third Canadian member of the GAN.
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While it might seem counter intuitive, your social media strategy should take into account that about two-thirds of social media users aren’t sharing much, but taking in quite a bit.
At mesh conference yesterday, Andrew Reid and Alexandra Samuel shared insights from the world’s largest study of social media usage for the first time ever. The study which had 55,000 respondents from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, who use one or more social media tools, revealed that a majority of users aren’t sharing, but lurking on Facebook and Twitter. To give perspective on the unprecedented number of respondents, the average Pew Research Centre study has about 2,500 respondents.
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Parta Dialogue, which is headquartered in Montreal, has launched its eValue Social Media ROI Suite.
Meaningfully measuring social media's return on investment is a challenging but highly demanded goal that Parta is not alone in trying to achieve—Vancouver startup HootSuite is one of many companies attempting to calculate the ROI of social media. Google is another.
Parta's eValue Social Media ROI Suite is a set of software-as-a service tools designed to "calculate the performance of corporate social media campaigns by comparing natural engagement behavior of online communities against the paid promotion and management efforts deployed by companies to build these followings."
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Global manufacturer of IT equipment Chatsworth Products has expanded its North American reach this month with the grand opening of its first Canadian sales office and showroom.
CPI, an employee-owned company that manufactures voice, data and security products, as well as service solutions that optimize, store and secure technology equipment, hosted this company landmark under the theme, “CPI Enters the ‘Great White North.’”
The centre is located in the Toronto suburb of Vaughan and spans 3,800 square feet.
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Palo Alto headquarterd Hewlett-Packard announced today plans to lay off 27,000 employees as part of its long-term restructuring plan.
The company will shed about 8% of its workforce through a combination of layoffs and retirement offers that started last October and will continue through the end of its 2014 fiscal year.
Employee reduction plans vary by country. While HP operates 28 offices across Canada, it is not clear what impact the layoffs would have in Canada yet.
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