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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.
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on Tue, February 7, 2012 2:21 PM
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It's always difficult to choose which wine bottle you're going home with. Natalie MacLean wants to make that much easier for you.
MacLean, who has built a series of Canadian wine apps since 2009 that allows you to see the real-time stock for every wine bottle at the particular store has...
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on Tue, February 7, 2012 8:12 AM
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Instead of signing up for mobile insurance, Cellhelmet says Canadians can now own an indestructible iPhone case through their new Kickstarter project. You can either pre-order the Cellhelmet or contribute to their project goal of $10,000 and get one of the first Cellhelmets while saving your iPhone from an unknown...
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on Fri, February 3, 2012 2:13 PM
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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!...
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on Thu, February 2, 2012 10:04 AM
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We are a dirty people.
According to a study conducted by marketing agency 11mark, three-quarters of Americans (and don't think we're any different, Canada!) use their phones in the bathroom. Titled IT in the Toilet, the study revealed that two-thirds of people are reading texts while on the toilet, and 63%...
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on Wed, February 1, 2012 9:22 AM
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This past fall and just recently, we've talked about a various number of newer advertising optimization technologies on Techvibes as part of our advertising technology series. One of them is known as eye tracking which produces a heat map in the image to your right. Mediative, a division of Yellow...
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on Mon, January 30, 2012 12:53 PM
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Vancouver-born Tasty is an iPhone app designed to help you better plan and organize your dining adventures.
The app is based around three core features: event planning, exploring, and sharing. On the events front, Tasty makes it as easy as possible to schedule a meal out. And if you can't decide...
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on Fri, January 27, 2012 2:00 PM
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Toronto-based startup GreenOwl Mobile, the developer of real‐time mobile traffic platform TrafficAlert, announced the Vancouver beta launch of its voice‐based traffic app at the DX3 Canada trade show. The free iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry app constantly monitors traffic on a driver’s route and...
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on Fri, January 27, 2012 8:28 AM
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Sports fan who's always on the move? Then Bell's lockdown on sports-related mobile content is becoming hard to ignore.
The Canadian telco announced that it has exclusive live mobile access to numerous major sports events, including the NHL All-Star Game, the Super Bowl XLVI, and the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Of course,...
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Are you ready to live the island dream?
First announced back in May 2011, Vancouver-based startup Exploding Barrel Games has at long last launched Margaritaville Online, a free Facebook and iOS game. The social, cross-platform game is an "immersive, everyday escape" inspired by the lifestyle of Jimmy Buffett.
"The Margaritaville laid-back state...
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