Waterloo Tech News

Prudent Press Agency - RoweBots Research, Inc., the leading supplier of tiny embedded Linux RTOS products, today announced the launch and release of DSPnano, Version 2, and UnisonTM, Version 4.

CNW Group - ARISE Technologies Corporation (TSX: APV andFrankfurt: A3T), which is dedicated to becoming a leader in high-performance,cost-effective solar technology, will hold its Annual General Meeting ofShareholders at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern) on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at the WaterlooInn, 475 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario.

Exchange Magazine - A new print-on-demand machine at the University of Waterloo Bookstore will in mere minutes print a high-quality paperback book with colour cover at a low cost.

PowerBuilder Journal - This week, Frost & Sullivan awarded Sybase with its 2009 North American Mobility Award for Mobile Enterprise Platforms, with respect to the Sybase UnWired Platform.

CNW Group - Open Text(TM) Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (TSX:OTC), a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software,today announced unaudited financial results for its third quarter, endingMarch 31, 2009.

marketwire - Covarity Inc., the leading commercial loan portfolio management software provider, today announced that it has received an additional $3 million in venture capital funding from BDC (Business Development Bank of Canada - www.bdc.ca), GrowthWorks (www.growthworks.ca), Tech Capital Partners (www.techcapital.com), and VentureLink Group of Funds (www.venturelinkfunds.com).

CNW Group - Open Text(TM) Corporation(NASDAQ:OTEX) (TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management(ECM) software, and Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ:VIGN), the company that theworld's leading brands rely on for innovative and dynamic web experiences,today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant towhich Vignette will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text.

PRNewswire - Coreworx Inc., a subsidiary of Acorn Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACFN), announced today that Coreworx has signed an agreement with ProExecute LLC for the rights to their Contract Management solution.

Wide-Format Imaging - Agfa Graphics has announced that it will launch printing quality and speed enhancements for digital screen printing with the new :M-Press Tiger at the FESPA Digital 2009 exhibition (Hall 5/G90) in RAI, Amsterdam May 12-14, 2009.

CNW Group - Wireless Enterprise Symposium 2009, May 5 /CNW/ - BayalinkSolutions Corp., a leading innovator in smartphone application virtualizationand a member of the BlackBerry(R) Alliance Program, announces today thegeneral availability of Bayalink Liberty(TM) v1.7.

CNET.com - In a bid to make its online Google Apps more appealing to corporate customers, Google plans to release software in July to make its e-mail and calendar services work well on BlackBerry mobile phones.

GlobeNewswire - Descartes Systems Group (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX), a global on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions provider, is scheduled to report its first quarter fiscal year 2010 financial results before market open on Thursday, May 28, 2009.

The Record - He's not even three feet tall and has a limited vocabulary, but this robot drew crowds at the 20th annual Ontario Skills Competition.

CNW Group - Notification of Annual General Meeting Webcastevent:

space.com - The Canadian government has sharply reduced the amount of time it takes to collect evidence of illegal fishing and other infractions in its territorial waters by deploying high-cost aircraft only after Canada's Radarsat 2 satellite has given an initial alert, according to Col. Francois Malo of Canada's Department of National Defence.

marketwire.com - DALSA (TSX: DSA), a global leader in machine vision technology, today announced the addition of the Falcon 4M60 and 4M30 Color CMOS cameras to its family of Falcon global shutter cameras. Capable of running at 60fps with 4 megapixel resolution, the Falcon 4M60 color is today's choice for leading edge color applications in electronics inspection, semiconductor inspection, and imaging markets.

CNW Group - Industry, government, education leaders andinfluencers will gather June 8 and 9 in Stratford, Ontario at the Canada 3.0forum to map Canada's digital future and create opportunities for new businessand jobs. Hosted by the University of Waterloo Stratford Institute and theCanadian Digital Media Network (CDMN), the forum is the must-attend event foranyone interested in Canada's place in the world's digital economy.

BusinessWire.com - HP (NYSE:HPQ) and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq:RIMM) (TSX:RIM) today announced they are establishing a strategic alliance to deliver a portfolio of solutions for business mobility on the BlackBerry® platform.

Calgary Herald - Tom Jenkins is a high-tech visionary, but he believes in a world that is flat. Companies like his function best when hierarchies are squashed.

The Record - This series of 11 essays on the global economic crisis by experts from the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) began with Daniel Schwanen's thoughtful reflections on the impact of the crisis upon Waterloo Region.

Financial Post - Ilya Grigorik, a skinny 25-year-old computer engineer, represents the future for Ontario. With a passion for blogging and $3-million in seed capital, he launched AideRSS, a Waterloo-based software company that helps people surf online content in an efficient manner.

Economist.com - SHOULD people who have bought DVDs legally be allowed to make digital copies of them for their own use? Any reasonable person would say yes. In copyright terms, that ought to be considered “fair use”. The law, however, presently says otherwise.

Blackberrycool.com - Now that RIM has an official blog, we can start to see some great content coming to the BlackBerry blogosphere. The company that is the subject of so much discussion will be able to communicate directly with their market.

Exchange Magazine - A University of Waterloo nutritional scientist who pioneered a new technique to test omega-3 levels in the body will receive a major award from a leading international research society.

The Record - Dalsa Corp. blamed the recession yesterday for a 65.8 per cent decline in first-quarter earnings and 30 per cent per cent drop in revenue.

The Record - Arise Technologies Corp. remains optimistic about the year despite a first quarter that saw sales evaporate 61.9 per cent from the previous quarter.

The Record - It's bigger than Bell, more ubiquitous than Loblaws, closer to people's hearts than Tim Hortons. Just 10 years old, the BlackBerry brand has become more valuable than most of the iconic trademarks in Canada.

CNW Group - RDM Corporation (TSX: RC), a leading providerof solutions for the electronic commerce and payment processing markets, todayreported its financial results for the three month period ended March 31,2009.

marketwire.com - Desire2Learn Incorporated (Desire2Learn) a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise eLearning solutions, has announced today that Ian Jukes will be a featured keynote at the Sixth Annual Users' Conference, FUSION 2009 - The Art of Learning, July 13-17, 2009 in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota. He will join Michael Wesch, who is providing the opening keynote address.

CNW Group - RDM Corporation (TSX: RC), a leadingdeveloper of specialized software and hardware products for electronic paymentprocessing and Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) solutions, announced today that ithas completed and received TSYS(R) Class B certification for its RDM SYNERGYII All-In-One Payment Terminal.