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The Canadian Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry got back on track in 2011, with the economic downturn firmly entrenched in its rear-view mirror. While there were still bumps in the road, this year’s Branham300 data...
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Thank you to everyone who made our first-annual innovation contest a huge success. Our appreciation goes out to the Alpha Group, our other sponsors, our social-media partners and—most of all—the Canadian entrepreneurs who entered the...
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For nearly a century, flying cars have driven car owners, sci-fi movie aficionados and Popular Mechanics readers’ imaginations to new heights. At the same time, their continued absence from the market has become an iconic expression of a space...
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Ipsos Reid’s first list of influential brands in Canada finds American Internet and mobile companies Microsoft and Google far outpacing Canada’s own Research In Motion in terms of brand recognition. The Influence Index also lists Apple,...
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Cloud computing will create almost 14 million new jobs worldwide by the end of 2015, with more than 70,000 of those being created in Canada. In Toronto alone, the growth of new cloud-related jobs will average 20 per cent annually, resulting in more...
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LinkedIn has 150 million members, five million of whom are Canadian. That is 3.3 per cent of the total membership, which sounds like a lot until LinkedIn hits you with this stat: the LinkedIn population of New York City is five million. Toronto has...
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If you want to live in a city with really fast Internet, get ready for a long flight because you’re heading to South Korea. Akamai’s The State of the Internet study concluded that the cities of Taegu and Taejon had world-leading average...
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It’s about the size of a credit card and, because it has no case, it looks more like a computer part than a computer, but people around the world put appearances aside and snapped up Raspberry Pi PCs as soon as they became available in...
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One third of consumers plan to buy a high-definition TV this year, but 55 per cent of those have no interest in 3D TVs, and a further 23 per cent said they would be interested only if the price difference were slight. Retrevo, author of the study,...
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Half of Canadian companies either have a mobile app or are busily working on one, according to a study from Robert Half Technology. Thirty-one per cent of CIOs said their companies now have a mobile application, and another 12 per cent plan to offer...
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83% of beauty product consumers searched online after seeing a magazine print ad
30% of all restaurant searches are done on a mobile phone
53% of searchers make a purchase as a result of a smartphone search
70% of smartphone owners use their devices...
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire launched in November 2011 and immediately became the number two selling tablet worldwide, despite being available only in the U.S. It was Amazon’s best-selling electronics product over the Christmas season and it won ...
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You’ve friended your clients on Facebook and followed your customers on Twitter, and maybe you’ve even linked to them all on LinkedIn, but does that mean you can call yourself a social business? Not according to Nigel Fenwick, vice...
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Squeeze a photo, move a display and type in the air. It’s not here yet, but a $150 gadget is pointing the way towards a gesture-based future. It’s 2020 and architect Joe Future’s steel and glass atrium design has hit a creative wall...
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Seeking out global markets and new customers through the Web is often held up as the Holy Grail for small- and mid-sized businesses, but unless you or your staff are multi-lingual, this is likely to be a formidable challenge. The British Council, a U...
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By the time Cameron Herold is 15 minutes into the phone interview for this article, he has already unpacked his suitcase, arranged everything in his four-star hotel bathroom and neatly rearranged the chairs on the deck overlooking the ocean. Herold,...
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