Waterloo Tech News

OTTAWA– Mike Lazaridis of Research in Motion today urged the federal government to restructure the sale of Nortel assets to avoid the loss to foreign control of technology he called "a national treasure."

Bloomberg.com - Michael Lazaridis, co-chief executive officer of Research in Motion Ltd., said his company bid on some of the assets of Nortel Networks Corp. before it filed for bankruptcy.

EarthTimes.org - The announcement of a global partnership between Kitchener based PrinterOn Corporation and Ricoh Company Ltd. simplifies secure wireless printing for mobile workers. The announcement means Ricoh will place its HotSpot Printers with embedded PrinterOn technology everywhere in the world that people want secure wireless printing.

CNW Group - ARISE Technologies Corporation (TSX: APV and Frankfurt: A3T), which is dedicated to becoming a leader in high-performance, cost-effective, high-quality solar technology, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Commerzbank AG to extend a (euro)10.0 million secured bank-credit facility to December 31, 2009. The facility is available to provide working capital to the company's manufacturing operations in Germany.

Computer World - The BlackBerry Curve 8520 hit U.S. shelves earlier this week, and though it certainly won't send hard-core CrackBerry addicts rushing to T-Mobile stores to scoop one up - it's an entry-level device, meant for new smartphone users - the handheld has more "new" BlackBerry features and hardware tweaks than any other device Research In Motion Ltd. has released in a year.

Exchange Magazine - University of Waterloo researchers have received funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to investigate how Canada can make the most of its spending to renew the country's infrastructure such as bridges and highways.

marketwire.com - Mr. Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), today announced a contribution to Sandvine Incorporated from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP).

CNW Group - ARISE Technologies Corporation (TSX: APV and Frankfurt: A3T), which is dedicated to becoming a leader in high-performance, high quality, cost-effective solar technology, will release its 2009 second-quarter financial results after 5:00 p.m. (Eastern) on Wednesday, August 12, 2009.

TMCnet.com - Bravura Solutions, a supplier of wealth management applications and professional services, and Sybase, a provider of enterprise and mobile software solutions, have joined forces to allow Bravura to offer its wealth management platform, Talisman, on a hosted basis for the first time in the UK.

NewsBlaze.com - Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce, today announced its intention to vigorously defend the two patent infringement lawsuits recently filed by Telecommunications Systems, Inc. (TCS), in the Eastern District of Virginia.

TMCnet.com - DALSA Corporation (TSX:DSA), announced today that Savvas Chamberlain will step down from his role as Chief Technology Officer of the Company on October 12, 2009, at which time he will transition to the role of Chairman, in a non-management status. Dr. Chamberlain has served as Executive Chairman and CTO since September, 2007 when Brian Doody was named Chief Executive Officer. Previously, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since 1996, and President since 1980 when he founded the Company.

MarketWire.com - On August 6, Mr. Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), will be at Sandvine Incorporated in Waterloo, Ontario, to announce an important investment and recognize the firm as a Canadian Innovation Leader.

Fox Business - Descartes Systems Group (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX), a global on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions provider, announced that Sleepy's, LLC has improved its customer experience, while reducing operational costs and growing its business, with Descartes Fleet Management Solutions.

BroadbandInfo.com - A Canadian provider of internet traffic controls, Sandvine, said roughly 90 percent of its broadband internet provider customers use application-specific traffic management policies, including most of its customers in the United States.

The Record — One of Waterloo’s oldest software companies is being sold to a Japanese company.

The Record - University of Waterloo students have won an international contest designing an environmentally friendly building for an American university.

marketwire - Equitrac Corporation, an award-winning print and cost management solutions provider, today announced that industry veteran Fred Whiteside has joined its leadership team as vice president of product development.

Telecommunications Industry News - Research In Motion has released an updated version of its mobile software marketplace, BlackBerry App World.

Australian IT - TELECOMMUNICATION Systems, maker of satellite communications systems for the military and text- messaging software, has filed two patent-infringement suits against Sybase Inc's Sybase 365 unit over messaging patents. TeleCommunication said it was seeking cash plus an order that would prevent Sybase 365 from continuing to use its patented inventions.

Financial Post - As potential bidders size up its offerings for the next auction, Nortel Networks Corp. appears like a heap of rubble being picked over by rivals at the end of a long bankruptcy liquidation process.

printweek.com - Agfa-Gevaert has turned to factoring to help reduce its net debt after it posted a 100m euro (£84.8m) drop in sales, to 677m euro, and a 9m euro net loss in its second-quarter results, compared with a 3m euro profit last year.

ars technica - In our globalized, post-industrial world, a single Canadian company can shape the Internet experience for 20 percent of the world's wireline broadband users. Sandvine makes deep packet inspection hardware that can identify and then block, shape, degrade, fold, spindle, or mutilate user traffic coming from particular applications such as Skype or BitTorrent clients.

CAD CAM News - Waterloo, Canada : Maplesoft today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cybernet Systems Co., Ltd., a Tokyo-based major Japanese importer/distributor of CAE (computer aided engineering) software. By combining the skills of two leading-edge organizations, the intent is to drive further innovation in the development and promotion of advanced math and engineering software worldwide. The acquisition is expected to be completed at the beginning of September of this year.

EFYtimes.com - The combination of Sybase IQ and MicroStrategy's business intelligence software in one solution will drive down the cost of deploying reporting and analytic solutions.

SemiConductor.net - Asyst Technologies, which filed for Chapter 11 protection last April, has agreed to three deals to sell the major pieces of its automation business to Crossing Automation Inc., Murata Machinery Ltd. and The Peer Group.