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Want to know the way to an employee’s heart? Thirty-eight per cent of professionals interviewed by OfficeTeam, a Robert Half Company,  identified work/life balance as the top contributor to their job satisfaction. Opportunities to learn and grow came in second, with 20 per cent of the response. Read the rest of this entry »

The Quebecor Fund Board of Directors is pleased to announce the names of the production companies and distributors whose projects will receive third-round funding under the Event and Film Production Assistance Program (EFPAP), following January 9, 2012 submissions. A total of $785,000 in funding will be shared between the selected producers and distributors. Read the rest of this entry »

Avanade, a business technology solutions and managed services provider, has released its report, Dispelling Six Myths of Consumerization of IT, based on a survey of more than 600 senior business and IT leaders conducted in 17 countries. The report challenges commonly held beliefs about the consumerization of IT — including executive perspectives on Millennials as the driving force, employee brand preferences, and hesitance of business leaders to embrace the trend.

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Kudos Inc. has announced the establishment of its Advisory Board, which is comprised of four recognized leaders in technology and organizational management. Launched in October 2011, the innovative employee engagement system allows team members and management to acknowledge one another for any act, effort or attitude that supports their culture, values or objectives, and has recently caught the attention of organizations around the world looking to improve their employee engagement. Read the rest of this entry »

Talent Technology Corporation, providers of Talemetry™, a leading talent generation solution for corporate HR and recruitment agencies announced today the results to their latest survey of recruitment professionals, releasing their annual State of Recruiting Survey Results and Infographic. Finding good candidates remains the #1 recruiting challenge for organizations; the more specific and higher skilled the job requirements, the harder to find qualified candidates.  Read the rest of this entry »

Advertising platform for media publishers AdPerfect has announced its partnership with Oregon company Pre1 Software, a full-service front-end classified system. The Pre1 and AdPerfect partnership offers their mutual customers free and sophisticated integration of Pre1’s SmartPublisher with AdPerfect’s Classified Advertising Solution. Read the rest of this entry »

Zylog Systems (Ottawa) Ltd has been selected as a Vendor of Record (VOR) for the Government of Ontario in both task-based and solutions-based information and information technology services. The Ontario Government allows qualified organizations to apply to become a VOR every three years. Gaining this status allows broader public sector organizations, including municipalities and services organizations, to approach the vendors directly in a three bid system. Read the rest of this entry »

Seccuris and SaskTel have announced a partnership to develop an Information Assurance Portal (IAP) which will provide a comprehensive set of information security services to small and mid-enterprise business customers in Saskatchewan, and across Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

MTS Allstream has said today that its focus on expanding its IP fibre network into targeted markets across Canada has continued to generate strong new sales wins with 46 new IP contracts signed in the fourth quarter of 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

The average e-commerce website takes 10 seconds to load, web pages are getting bigger, and Internet Explorer 9 outperforms other browsers. These were the findings of the 2012 Annual State of the Union: E-Commerce Page Speed and Website Performance study, the second annual report published by site acceleration solution provider Strangeloop Networks. Read the rest of this entry »