Waterloo Tech News

marketwire - The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), was at Waterloo's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics today to release Mobilizing Science and Technology to Canada's Advantage: Progress Report 2009. The report is the Government of Canada's update on the implementation of Canada's Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy, which was launched by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in May 2007.

Exchange Magazine - Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis are joining a select group of Canadians who have given more than $100 million in support to post-secondary education and research.

Twice.com - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) confirmed it recently acquired Dash Navigation, although RIM did not provide details on the purchase.

Broadband Census - The problems with so-called “deep packet inspection” are too big to ignore, a panel of broadband experts said on the third and final day of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference at George Washington University here.

ibm.net.au - Bill Forquer, Executive Vice President of Marketing at Open Text Corporation, was recently in Australia for a series of customer seminars. IDM asked Bill Forquer about the challenges of integrating the company's latest acquisitions and Open Text’s emerging ECM solutions groups.

CNW Group - Open Text(TM) Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX,TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), todayannounced that the company will be engaging with leading government, businessand academic leaders at the inaugural Canada 3.0 Forum taking place June 8-9at the University of Waterloo's Stratford Institute.

metronews.ca - When it comes to alternative fuel technologies, solar power usually comes up short of hydrogen fuel cells or battery-powered exotics.

Earth Times - MKS Inc., (MKS) (TSX: MKX) the global application lifecycle management (ALM) technology leader, today announced that TRW Automotive (NYSE: TRW), one of the world's largest automotive suppliers, has selected MKS Integrity(TM) as their enterprise wide software development platform.

send2press.com - RoweBots Inc., the leading supplier of tiny embedded Linux RTOS products, today announced the launch and release of Unison™, Version 4 for ARM Cortex-M3 processors.

CNW Group - BIOREM Inc. (TSXV:BRM) announced today thereceipt of a biotrickling filter order in Florida valued at $700,000. Biorem will supply three Mytilus(R) biotrickling filtration systems totreat 24,000 cfm of polluted air streams with high hydrogen sulfide levels ata municipal wastewater treatment plant. The project is expected to revenue inthe latter part of this year.

Aerospace Online - MKS Inc. (TSX:MKX) today announced that All Nippon Airways (ANA) has selected MKS IntegrityTM for secure software configuration and change management on Boeing 787 aircraft. ANA will be the first airline to operate the Boeing 787.

IT-Director.com - Sybase has just announced a time series extension to its Real-time Analytics Platform (RAP). Briefly, this allows you to look for time-based correlations within historic data. However, it is not time series, nice as it is, that is my focus in this article but RAP in general.

Blackberry Cool - Tungle is an accelerated calendar experience that is great for anyone who books appointments on a regular basis. Today, they unveiled some new features, including the Tungle.me service.

laboratory product news - Ontario's provincial government celebrated top scientific achievements yesterday at the 2009 Premier's Innovation Awards.

CNW Group - Dr. Neil Turok, Director of PerimeterInstitute, and John Matlock, Director of External Relations and Outreach, willannounce details on June 12th, 2009, of an innovative, public science festivalcoming in October, 2009.

Exchange Magazine - Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener–Waterloo, and Leeanna Pendergast, MPP for Kitchener–Conestoga, Friday announced a joint investment of $50 million in two projects at the University of Waterloo.

Exchange Magazine - Descartes Systems Group, announced that industry-leading carriers, including Con-way Freight, are preparing for the soon-to-be-mandatory Advanced Commercial Information (ACI) Truck e-Manifest with Descartes' Global Logistics Network (GLN) Customs Filing & Compliance suite.

Marketwire - Tungle from any webpage, blog, Facebook profile or email; Enables anyone to easily schedule meetings without downloads or registration.

CNW Group - Sustainable Waterloo is pleased toannounce six Founding Partners. As a not-for-profit, Sustainable Waterloo'smandate is to guide businesses in Waterloo Region toward a moreenvironmentally sustainable future.