Waterloo Tech News

Guelph Mercury - The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) was at the University of Guelph today, announcing that it's investing more than $26 million in revolutionary research at 29 Canadian universities.

Industry Canada - Thank you for your warm welcome. I am delighted to be here at the University of Waterloo — the heart of Canada's technology triangle.

EarthTimes - The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), today announced a strategic investment in the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo.

CNW Group - Open Text(TM) (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), aglobal leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today announced LockheedMartin Aeronautics Joint-Service Technical Data (JTD) Integrated Product Team(IPT), based in Fort Worth, Texas, extended its use of Open Text's DigitalAsset Management (DAM) solution to manage graphics and rich media content forF-35 Lightning II Technical Data.

Macleans - I just filed a news story for our next print edition about First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science, Howard Burton’s fantastic new book about the founding of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, which will be published Any Day Now by Key Porter.

Wired - A BlackBerry without a keyboard is here to stay as Research In Motion reportedly prepares to launch a follow up to its BlackBerry Storm phone.

marketwatch.com - Metranome, a leading provider of mobile video applications, today announced the availability of Poptiq Powered, a turnkey solution that enables content owners to launch mobile applications built exclusively around their brand.

Toronto Star - It's often said that business and industry should take advantage of economic downturns by investing in technologies and equipment that improve their operational efficiency.

marketwire.com - Sandvine, (TSX:SVC)(AIM:SAND) a leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for cable, DSL, FTTx, fixed wireless and mobile operators, is being recognized as one of this year's Best Workplaces in Canada, for the 3rd year in a row.

The Globe and Mail - If Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., is Canada's high-tech hothouse, Tim Jackson is one of the head gardeners. He helped build one of the region's success stories, PixStream, which was sold to U.S. giant Cisco Systems for $550-million in 2000.

Globe And Mail - Toronto-based radio DJ Alan Cross flew to Boston last month with a plan to find a way into a secret U2 concert at an old vaudeville-era theatre.

StockHouse - Shares of solar technology firm ARISE Technologies Corporation (TSX: T.APV, Stock Forum) climbed 9.6% to 45.5 cents Friday, as the company reported a visit by Ontario deputy premier and minister of energy and infrastructure, George Smitherman

MediaCaster - Rogers Sportsnet and Waterloo, ON-based LiveHive Systems will introduce an interactive entertainment platform during Sportsnet's Blue Jay broadcasts this season.

CNW Group - ARISE Technologies Corporation (TSX: APVand Frankfurt: A3T), which is dedicated to becoming a leader inhigh-performance, cost-effective solar technology, will welcome the HonourableGeorge Smitherman, Ontario's Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy andInfrastructure, at its Waterloo headquarters at 4:00 p.m. where he will tourthe company's facility and meet with company officials.

Market Watch - Research In Motion Ltd. said Thursday afternoon that earnings jumped nearly 26% in the fourth fiscal quarter

Exchange Magazine - Local business leaders selected FreshLife, an organic fast-food restaurant developed by Laurier business students, as the winner of the BDO New Venture Competition held March 28 at Wilfrid Laurier University.

The Record - In a world where the internet is becoming a giant computer and tools like Facebook and Twitter "are like the air" to young people, organizations must embrace change and abandon the old institutional ways thinking, a culture and technology guru told a local audience yesterday.

ParkVu.com - ParkVu today launched i2b, the first application to let BlackBerry Bold, Curve, and Storm users remotely retrieve music from their iTunes library,

The Record - A Kitchener-based maker of educational software has come up with what it believes is a creative solution to resolve a three-year-old legal dispute with its major U.S. rival.

Toronto Star - A 10-year track record of hiring skilled immigrants is not the only reason that a small company in Kitchener is rubbing shoulders with multinational corporations as a top employer for new Canadians.

CNW Group - Open Text(TM) (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), aglobal leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), was ranked the largestCanadian software company in the Branham300, the well-known annual ranking oftop information and communication technology (ICT) companies operating inCanada.

Globe and Mail - Research In Motion Ltd. is stealing a page from rival Apple Inc.'s playbook as it prepares to write the latest chapter in the ongoing struggle between the two companies for control of the global smart phone market.

BlackBerryCool.com - Even though we’re hearing incessantly about the economic crisis, many of us are still happily going to work at a job we love. More than 2,100 companies in Canada applied to be among Canada’s Top 100 Employers in both public and private sectors.

CNW Group - COM DEV USA, LLC, a subsidiary of COMDEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV), today announced that it has been awarded acontract by The Boeing Company to supply passive microwave components for thenext generation of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS).

IT News Online - Today at the International SecurityConference West trade show, Nuvation introduces a new IP Camerareference design featuring TI's TMS320DM365 digital media processorbased on DaVinci(TM) technology.