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According to Juice Mobile 91% of Mobile Internet Access is to Socialize

Posted by Dan Verhaeghe on Fri, February 10, 2012 11:16 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Gaming, Research & Infographics, Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry, Apple, Android · Comments
Neil Sweeney was named Canada's Top Digital Media Executive in 2011 at the Digi Awards in December for pioneering JUICE Mobile, a mobile advertising and analytics company with dozens of Canadian clients. JUICE offers access to over 1B monthly mobile impressions from 1,500 various Canadian and USA publishers.  After winning the... [more]

This Valentine’s Day the way to a woman’s heart is with a Smartphone

Posted by Techvibes Newsdesk on Fri, February 10, 2012 10:59 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Research & Infographics · Comments
Still in need of a Valentine’s Day gift for your sweetheart? Forget the candy and flowers, consumer electronics are where it’s at. A new study confirms both men and women would likely swoon over receiving a new gadget from their valentine. The US Consumer Electronics Association says women... [more]

Canadian Retailers See Big Jump in Black Friday/Cyber Monday Weekend Sales in 2011

Posted by Dan Verhaeghe on Fri, February 10, 2012 9:14 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Research & Infographics, Mobile · Comments
Richmond Hill based OrderDynamics, a SaaS provider for on-demand e-commerce technology for retailers says that merchants who used their technology outpaced the e-commerce holiday sales average by 57%.  The company says retail sales grew 15% to $35 billion in 2011 versus 2010 for online transactions between November 1st and December 26th.... [more]

According to Plentyoffish Founder the Future of Online Dating is Mobile

Posted by Rob Lewis on Fri, February 10, 2012 6:00 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Research & Infographics, Mobile · Comments
Yesterday Plentyoffish.com Founder Markus Frind declared on his blog that the the Web is dead and the future of online dating is mobile. Considering his stats, it hard to argue with him. In the last year POF has gone from having no mobile apps to 300 Million visits and 3 ... [more]

Six in Ten Groupon users likely to revisit a retailer without a coupon

Posted by Techvibes Newsdesk on Thu, February 9, 2012 9:23 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Research & Infographics · Comments
Online group coupons are becoming a hot marketing tool for businesses– but do they actually work to build loyalty? According to a recent issue of the Ipsos Canadian Inter@ctive Reid Report, Canadians are flocking to daily deal sites to try new companies, experience new products or services,... [more]

Canada’s Internet Among the Best in the World?

Posted by Stephen Christensen on Tue, February 7, 2012 12:09 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Research & Infographics · Comments
A recent study, conducted by Montreal's Lemay Yates Associates Ltd. on behalf of Rogers Communications Ltd., reveals Canada’s Internet to be amongst the best in the world. The report carried out 52 million speed tests across G7 nations and members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). According to... [more]

55% of CIOs don't plan on developing a Mobile App anytime soon

Posted by Techvibes Newsdesk on Tue, February 7, 2012 9:27 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Research & Infographics, Mobile · Comments
"There's an app for that" may apply to more than four in ten Canadian businesses before the year is over, a new survey by Robert Half Technology shows. Thirty-one per cent of CIOs polled recently said their companies already offer a mobile application, while another 12... [more]

Smartphones Outsell PCs For the First Time Ever, Tablets Lead Growth by a Long Shot [REPORT]

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Fri, February 3, 2012 2:13 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Google, Research & Infographics, Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry, Apple, Android · Comments
For the first time in history, smartphones are outselling PCs worldwide. Canalys released its full report on smartphone and PC shipments for the fourth quarter of 2011 and the numbers are incredible. Over 158 million smartphones were shipped globally in Q4, blowing away PC shipments—which include notebooks, netbooks, and even tablets!... [more]

Your Followers Don't Give a Damn About Your Breakfast but They Don't Mind Your Shameless Self-Promotion

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Fri, February 3, 2012 1:00 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Social Media, Research & Infographics, Twitter · Comments
A quarter of tweets are useless. A third are disliked. Is Twitter a time-sucking void of meaningless garbage? Time-sucking it may be, but meaningless it is not. But the above data is indeed true, according to a new study. Conducted by a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts... [more]

Is Canada's Internet Awesome or Awful? Well, That Depends on Who You Ask [REPORT]

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Thu, February 2, 2012 2:52 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Research & Infographics · Comments
Do Canadians have good or bad internet? The question seems up for debate. This week, Montreal-based consulting firm Lemay Yates Associates released a report that researched internet in the developed world. Based on the results of 52 million speed tests of broadband users across the G7 countries and Organization for Economic... [more]