Waterloo Tech News

Erictric.com - Remember when the Apple iPad was still a rumor, but everyone was anxious to know more about it? Well, it’s like deja-vu all over again with rumors of a possible BlackBerry Tablet by Research In Motion.

Accelerator Centre News - Karos Health celebrated its graduation from the Accelerator Centre last Wednesday. The company, which creates software for use in the field of electronic health systems, is the sixth start-up to graduate from the [Accelerator] centre.

Business Wire - Tungle Corp., the company that makes scheduling meetings easy, today announced that CEO Marc Gingras has been named top Montreal entrepreneur by his fellow startup peers for his success with Tungle.me.

MarketWatch - DALSA Corporation, a global leader in digital imaging technology, will present two machine vision technology topics at The Vision Show in Boston, May 24-27, 2010. The Vision Show is the largest display of machine vision and imaging components and systems.

CNW Group - Attendees at next week's Canada 3.0 2010 digital media forum will be living proof of the benefits of going digital when they tap into the power of Open Text Corporation's latest mobile and social workplace solutions using their BlackBerry and iPhone devices.

Exchange Magazine - The learning stream of the Canada 3.0 2010 forum will develop a transformative plan to enable the education system to equip young talent for the competitive digital media industry in the country and ensure that Canada is a world research leader in digital media research.

The Globe and Mail - Add Research In Motion to the list of tech shops rethinking its tablet strategy.

570 News - Canada's Technology Triangle, in partnership with the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, Conestoga College and other local businesses, will be undertaking its first Business Mission to China.

The Montreal Gazette - Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has sketched for us a future of diminished expectations. While Canada's economy is rebounding this year, looking farther ahead, we could be facing depressingly slow growth, he says.

PR.com - LoyaltyMatch OnDemand™, the Software as a Service (SaaS) platform developed by loyalty program computing company LoyaltyMatch Inc. will be showcased at Canada's premier digital media event Canada 3.0.

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 2010 first-quarter financial results after 7:00 a.m. (Eastern) on Wednesday May 12, 2010.

infoCommiQ - Christie Digital Systems Canada, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been named one of Canada’s Best Employers for New Canadians for 2010 by the editors of Mediacorp Canada Inc., a Toronto based publishing firm.

Winnipeg Free Press - Until now, mobile users have been faced with a choice — either type on a tiny keyboard or use a touchscreen keypad.

CNW Group - Open Text Corporation, the preeminent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, today announced Rights Management Services (RMS) for the Open Text ECM Suite which allows enterprises to safeguard confidential and sensitive information from unauthorized uses for content even after it leaves the secure vault of the content repository.

CNW Group - GeoSmart Energy, the most experienced and respected name in geothermal, is further diversifying its renewable energy product line to include solar energy options thanks to a formal partnership with green energy solutions provider Innovative Air Solutions Inc. .

Exchange Magazine - Laurier MBA graduate Olga Pawluczyk has an eye for business. Her company, P&P Optica Inc., which she runs with her father Romuald, specializes in the design and manufacture of high-precision optical instruments called spectrometers.

The Record - Federal Industry Minister Tony Clement and Canadian futurist and marketing guru Tony Chapman will be the keynote speakers at the second annual Canada 3.0 Digital Media Forum in Stratford next week.

intomobile - A patent by BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM)-maker Research In Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) has been dug up featuring a tablet-style device, potentially confirming the rumoured Cobalt device.

The Gazette - Marc Gingras’s company is off to a flying start. Nearly a year since he launched the social meeting scheduling site Tungle.me, Gingras, the site’s CEO and co-founder, has been named top Montreal entrepreneur of the year by a jury of his peers.

Campus Technology - MapleSoft has released Maple 14, an application designed for mathematical education and research, and MapleSim 4, a modeling tool for engineering projects.

The Record - Cine Flow, a company formed from the ashes of Dalsa Corp.’s digital cinema camera project, has landed a major deal with a U.S. customer and moved into new offices in Kitchener.

NorthcentralPA - Mansfield University faculty and students will start using a new learning management system for online instruction beginning with the upcoming summer sessions.Mansfield University faculty and students will start using a new learning management system for online instruction beginning with the upcoming summer sessions.

Fox Business - Descartes Systems Group, a federated global logistics network, is scheduled to report its first quarter fiscal year 2011 financial results before market open on Wednesday, June 2, 2010.

Field Technologies - Cargo Network Service (CNS) Partnership Conference — Descartes Systems Group, a federated global logistics network, unveiled the latest version of its Global Freight Exchange (GF-X) air freight electronic booking portal.

Digital Journal - Canada's leading defence and military journal, Canadian Defence Review, has released its annual survey and ranking of defence companies in Canada. Raytheon Canada, with operations in Waterloo and Midland, Ontario as well as Calgary, Alberta, was ranked number one in the CDR survey for 2010.

MMD Newswire - Social technology expert, Ladybug Teknologies Inc., announced today that its BAQ Tracker Mobile software application will help build "informed consumption" communities throughout the Kitchener-Waterloo region.

HAARETZ -This is one exit that the venture capital funds won't want to remember. The Israeli startup CableMatrix Technologies has been sold for a bowl of lentils to the Canadian company Sandvine.

Campus Technology - An Ontario university is switching to Desire2Learn after an academic year filled with problems in trying to keep its newly updated Blackboard learning management system operational.

RFP Connect - Coreworx Inc., a subsidiary of Acorn Energy, Inc., has completed the acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Decision Dynamics Technology Ltd. ("Decision Dynamics" or "DDY") in consideration for the issuance of 1,000,000 shares of Acorn common stock to the Decision Dynamics shareholders.

R&D Mag - Maplesoft announced the simultaneous release of MapleSim 4, the high-performance, physical modeling and simulation tool, and Maple 14, the technical computing software for engineers, mathematicians, and scientists.

StreetInsider.com - Descartes Systems Group, a federated global logistics network, unveiled the latest version of its Global Freight Exchange (GF-X) air freight electronic booking portal.

CNW Group - With Biorem now entering new markets with innovative and advanced technological breakthroughs, the Company has decided to provide details of its new strategy for its future growth and its outlook for fiscal years 2010/11.

info4security - Navtech received the prestigious award for “the continuous development of radar based sensors used for security surveillance, industrial automation, and traffic sensing”.

The Record - That mysterious black building adjacent Waterloo Park has a lot more going on inside than a bunch of brilliant scientists researching theoretical physics.