Friday, November 04, 2011
Intelligent data streamlines city traffic Intelligent Mechatronic Systems wants to change the way cities analyze traffic by giving them up to the minute data using cell phone towers
Monday, June 06, 2011
Google buys social analytics vendor PostRank Staff at the Waterloo, Ont. startup will join Google's staff in Mountain View, Calif.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Waterloo ekes out medal in programming contest For the 17th year in a row, the University of Waterloo made its way to the finals in IBM’s Battle of the Brains. A Chinese university took top spot, continuing the decade-long trend of eastern dominance at the coding contest
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Google Waterloo grows into new office space The Lang Tannery district will be Google’s new home in Canada along with other high-tech tenants. The software giant plans to hire for IT positions for the expanding business
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Tech start-ups flock to Waterloo, report finds A new study from Communitech indicates that more than 700 tech companies now operate in the Waterloo region, up 21 per cent from 2008. Find out more about the report
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Fusenet's 'Dragon's Den' The company's work model fosters entrepreneurs while keeping them in the business. Experts say the Pet Project Program puts a unique spin on the 80/20 innovation model
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Year in review: The public sector and Web 2.0 Social networking technologies were on governments' radar in 2008. Plus privacy, security, and the strange case of the jailed network admininstrator
Thursday, February 21, 2008
RIM CTO to speak with Waterloo teachers The BlackBerry maker’s CTO David Yach will share his experience about his career in technology and how teachers can instill the excitement of computer sciences to their students
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
User Experience: Hugh Kelly The Canadian Information Productivity Awards' CIO of the Year discusses his career with the LCBO and managing airport IT in Saudi Arabia
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Building the ethical enterprise Finding the answers to an executive’s toughest questions starts with perfecting the art of good communication, says one Waterloo professor.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Two Canadian communities among seven most intelligent in the world Two Canadian communities - Waterloo and Ottawa-Gatineau - have been named among the Top Seven Intelligent Communities in the world by the New York-based Intelligent Community Forum (ICF).
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Two Canadian communities among seven most 'intelligent' in the world Two Canadian communities – Waterloo and Ottawa-Gatineau – have been named among the Top Seven Intelligent Communities in the world by the New York-based Intelligent Community Forum (ICF).
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Students to tackle real world problems at Canadian contest Technology students get to pit their wits and training against real world workplace problems in a competition hosted by the Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Black is Black, I want my brand name back The suit filed by Research in Motion (RIM) Ltd. against Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. seems aimed at sending a signal to other manufacturers not to fool around with the well-established BlackBerry brand, says a Canadian analyst. 
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
RBC Capital Markets Research Comment - RIM A recent research report on Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion by RBC Capital Markets.
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Fibre merger more viable for local business Business customers in the Waterloo region should benefit from the recent merger of two southern Ontario utility telcom firms (utelcos), according to at least one industry observer.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Wanted: IT professionals IT hiring and tech research appears to be on the upswing. In June, the Waterloo (Ontario) Region’s tech industry launched an initiative to recruit more than 800 IT professionals to the area. Also in June, SAP AG announced plans to expand its Montreal-based research and development (R&D) facility. And to complete the trifecta, Sun Microsystems Inc. recently opened a health care IT research centre in Ottawa.
Thursday, March 10, 2005
College learns to let go when dumped by tech vendor What do you do when a technology provider leaves you high and dry? Try going Zen: forgive and forget, like Bill Farkas did. Farkas is co-ordinator of the Telecommunications Technology Program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ont. His office is located in Sheridan’s School of Computer Animation and Emerging Technologies (SCAET) building, the very scene of said abandonment. Back in the late-1990s the SCAET project was just getting started, and Sheridan sought technology partners to provide networking gear for the futuristic edifice. Recall, this was during a somewhat silly time in the IT field. 
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Waterloo Region deploys content management platform The Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ont. (Waterloo Region) recently automated its paper-based content management processes as a way to improve public accountability, a city official said Wednesday. Waterloo Region recently implemented a corporate-wide electronic document and records management (EDRM) system from content management vendor Hummingbird Ltd. Kris Fletcher, director, council and administrative services/regional clerk for the municipality said Waterloo Region is using the Hummingbird Enterprise platform as part of an effort to improve public accountability by lowering the risk of lost or unmanaged electronic and paper documents. 
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Gov’t R&D cash helps brain gain CW Canada’s “brain-drain” to the U.S. — the bane of the IT boom days — may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to significant government and industry investment in science and technology (S&T). 
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Government R&D investments reversing brain drain, says Carty Canada’s “brain-drain” to the U.S. – the bane of the IT boom days – may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to significant government and industry investment in science and technology (S&T), according to Arthur Carty, National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister. 
Wednesday, June 04, 2003
Wi-Fi app development to get US$25M boost from Sybase The Research and Technology Park at the University of Waterloo in Ontario is getting a boost, as Dublin, Calif.-based Sybase Inc. announced a plan on Wednesday to launch a Wi-Fi competency centre at the university.
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
Students concerned over Microsoft-U of Waterloo deal The $2.3-million funding partnership announced Wednesday between Microsoft Canada and the University of Waterloo (UW) has the school's student federation feeling “disconcerted” over some of the requirements of the deal.
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
HP’s Gelato sweet on Linux The Gelato Federation, Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd.’s new open source community initiative, is designed to advance computing solutions via Intel Itanium technology, the company announced Monday.
Sunday, December 16, 2001
Open Text sets sights on Accelio Waterloo, Ont.-based Open Text Corp. is laying $68.5 million on the table today in a bid to takeover Ottawa-based software maker Accelio Corp.