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Job seekers who want potential employers to “show them the money” may be in luck, a new Robert Half survey suggests. More than one-third (38 per cent) of executives interviewed said they are more willing to negotiate salary with top candidates than they were one year ago. Just 5 per cent of respondents said they are less willing to negotiate. Read the rest of this entry »

Project X Labs and high density storage solution company Spacefile have announced a strategic partnership that will see the two companies develop a custom business intelligence (BI) visualization solution using Spacefile’s Asset RFID tracking system (SAT) and Project X Labs business intelligence (BI) visualization tools. Read the rest of this entry »

Kobo has announced today that Netherlands retailer Libris Blz. have begun selling the Kobo Touch eReader online at www.libris.nl  and www.blz.nl with free shipping and delivery, and it will be in select stores starting January 30th, for €129.00. Kobo offers one of the world’s largest bookstores of more than 2.5 million ebooks, which now includes thousands of popular bestselling Dutch titles. Read the rest of this entry »

Online payment processing service provider Optimal Payments and Desjardins have announced the launch of a fully customized version of Optimal’s NETBANX^® gateway services to Desjardins merchants. Read the rest of this entry »

Intelligent broadband network solutions  provider Sandvine has announced it has successfully deployed its Network Policy Control solutions in three North American wireless networks, BendBroadband, FRC/The Blue Zone and Main Street Broadband.  All three operators became Sandvine customers in fiscal 2011 and provide fixed-wireless service using a variety of access technologies including WiMAX, satellite, 3G and 4G. Read the rest of this entry »

Virtutone Networks Inc., a provider of Internet-based telephony services, introduced today its Simple Network Access Portal (SNAP!) which allows Virtutone customers and resellers to quickly provision and manage Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) lines from any internet connection in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology held a roundtable discussion with Victoria’s business leaders, toured the Vancouver Island Technology Park and celebrated the recently completed Knowledge Infrastructure Program upgrades to the University of Victoria campus. Read the rest of this entry »

Rogers Communications and Vancouver’s Wavefront, a wireless centre of excellence for commercialization and research, have announced the launch of the Rogers Wireless Innovation Centre, a new Centre that helps technology innovators develop products and bring them to market faster. Read the rest of this entry »

Tech sector momentum continues to grow in Waterloo Region, as Communitech reports that 450 startup jobs and 300 new companies emerged in the Region during 2011, along with continued hiring in established companies. Companies working with the Communitech startups team raised over $70 million in funding from venture capitalists, angel investors and government incentive programs to spur on innovation during 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Shaw Media rang in the New Year on a high, celebrating a successful fall 2011 across its specialty services and outpacing the competition with impressive 4% growth amongst key A25-54 and W25-54 demographics (BBM Canada PPM data – Total Canada 8/30/10-1/2/11; 8/30/11 – 1/2/12, Competitor rate of growth over F’10: Bell Media, -3%; Rogers,+3%; Corus, -7%). Read the rest of this entry »