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Personal identity and the hyperniche 30 May 2013 | 06:14 pm
By Leo Valiquette Internet video is fulfilling, and fueling, consumer demand for more and more highly personalized content that is available anywhere at any time. Internet video is turning the old bro...
Now for the real story … 28 May 2013 | 12:06 am
By Leo Valiquette When asked to talk about the success that is Club Penguin, a virtual world for kids, co-founder Lane Merrifield will dutifully entertain his audience with an account of how the ventu...
The importance of thinking bigger 23 May 2013 | 10:36 pm
By Leo Valiquette “We knew that just being a good little Canadian company meant certain death.” For Michael Serbinis, founder and CEO of Kobo, there was only one way for an upstart Canadian ereader to...
Building the ‘Engagement Economy,’ one controller at a time 22 May 2013 | 07:34 pm
By Leo Valiquette There are now one billion gamers worldwide, and we need every single one of them … plus more. So says Jane McGonigal, author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How Th...
A photocopier of things in your pocket 21 May 2013 | 07:14 pm
By Leo Valiquette When he was young, Chris Anderson learned of the arduous process that his grandfather had to endure to patent and licence the first automatic sprinkler system. At that time, there wa...
The competition for your relaxation time 17 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
By Leo Valiquette Reed Hastings is not a man concerned about competition. In fact, he invites it because it can have only positive results for his industry and for consumers. That industry is of cours...
What will it take for Canadian technology to conquer the global marketplace? 16 May 2013 | 09:54 pm
By Leo Valiquette Canada’s ICT companies need more help at home to create more innovative and globally competitive products, but at the same time, they must take the initiative and actively pursue opp...
Shooting for the moon in digital media 15 May 2013 | 07:35 am
Creating jobs and economic wealth through innovation – how can that not be worthy of recognition? On the first day of its Canada 3.0 conference, the CDMN recognized four outstanding Canadian companies...
Canada 3.0 – Building a Digital Nation for the Benefit of Humanity 13 May 2013 | 10:38 pm
Three years ago, a software executive, a university president, a federal minister, a provincial minister, and a mayor came together to launch a symbolic moonshot designed to inspire Canadian leadershi...
Funding Opportunity for Canadian Companies and Researchers: Call for Canada-Israel Energy R&D Projects 13 May 2013 | 09:01 pm
Learn more about this opportunity here CIIRDF Announces the First Call for Proposals for the Canada-Israel Energy S&T Fund (CIEST Fund) Complete R&D Proposal Deadline: Friday, July 19, 2013 by Midn...
