CRTC Searches for Sustainable Solution to Telecommunications Needs of Disabled Canadians

The Canadan Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission continues its search for a "sustainable solution" to the telecommunications needs of Canadians with hearing and speech disabilities.

"Text relay services available nationwide meet the needs of the vast majority of people with such disabilities," the CRTC says. "However, people with disabilities who use a sign language as their first or primary language have submitted that video relay, a sign-language service, would better meet their needs." So the CRTC has decided that further study is required to better understand the different projections regarding use and cost of the service.

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QuickMobile Launches Analytics Dashboard with Real-Time Data for Event Marketers

Event marketers and organizers will now have access to real-time analytics data to improve event logistics and measure success with the release of QuickMobile’s new Analytics Dashboard. Accessible through the Vancouver startup's content management system, the new dashboard is available to all customers and delivers hourly updates of data captured from event attendees’ use of QuickMobile’s mobile meeting apps.

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Toronto's SecureKey Raises $30 Million from Intel, Visa, MasterCard, Rogers, and Telus

Toronto's SecureKey Technologies announced this morning that it has raised $30 million in growth capital to fund the commercial rollout of its innovative online and mobile authentication solutions.  

The financing round was led by Intel Capital and included new investors Visa Inc., MasterCard, Discover Financial Services, Rogers Venture Partners LLC, and TELUS Corporation.

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Success of Bait Cars Inspires Laptop and Bicycle Spinoffs (That May Even Get a Reality TV Show)

Bait cars have been so successful in capturing thieves in BC that the system has inspired spinoffs for bait computers and bait bicycles. In fact, a team of youth in Vancouver is developing a reality television show based on a bicycle with a GPS-broadcasting device hidden inside the frame.

Meanwhile, RCMP in the Vancouver suburb of Maple Ridge this week announced the recovery of four laptops stolen from local schools, thanks to tracking devices installed by the school district. It was the technology's first real-world test and passed with flying colours.

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Canadian Startup is Auctioning its Own Platform Through its Own Platform

Montreal's Pibster is a reverse auction platform that wants users to sell anything and everything through social media, starting with Twitter.

The premise is simple: a user sets a high price, and every time someone tweets that auction item, the price decreases by a fixed amount until someone clicks buy (assuming someone is interested before it hits the reserved minimum price).

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