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Belz Enterprises and Peabody Hotel Group Name SolutionInc Exclusive Partner |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Saturday, April 29, 2006
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HALIFAX and MEMPHIS, April 27 /CNW/ - SolutionInc Limited (TSX-VEN:STL) announced today that Belz Enterprises and the Peabody Hotel Group, its affiliate hotel division, has selected award-winning SolutionIP(TM) software
as the exclusive Internet (IP) management, provisioning and billing system. SolutionInc's SolutionIP(TM) management system powers Peabody Hotel.
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Time to get unwired |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, April 28, 2006
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Tod Maffin is a technology futurist with a yearning for the past.
"Success is a relative thing," he said during a fast-paced presentation at a conference in Halifax on Thursday hosted by Nova Scotia Business Inc., the province’s economic development agency. "What I want to encourage you to do is not always run your brain in high-tech, because you will eventually go crazy."
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Research Dollars Focus on the Future |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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Innovative research on health, energy, technology, and the environment is helping provide new jobs in Nova Scotia and increasing opportunities for economic growth.
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CrossOff Incorporated Announces Appointment of Colleen Moorehead as President and CEO |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
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CrossOff Incorporated, a leader in the provision of corporate training in Canada, announced today the appointment of
Colleen Moorehead as President and Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Most recently Ms. Moorehead was former President E(*)TRADE Canada and Past Vice President and General Manager E(*)Trade Financial Global Corporate Services.
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Web Site Helps Homeowners Track Their Stuff & Insurance Companies Close Claims Quicker |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
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New simple to use Web site is dedicated to helping homeowners track their stuff & insurance companies close claims quicker. All too often people do not remember all the assets / stuff they have accumulated over the years. After a major loss due to a fire, theft or natural disaster they have to make multiple claims to their insurance company, if they remember everything. Using allmyassets.com, members can instantly email a report of their missing or damaged assets to their insurance company from any Internet enabled computer. Allmyassets.com helps its members get their claimed amount quicker without out the need to file multiple claims and helps insurance company’s close claims quicker.
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I-3 Round Two Participants Announced |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, April 20, 2006
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Cape Bretoners demonstrate their strong entrepreneurial spirit and business ideas with their response to InNOVAcorp’s I-3 technology start-up competition. Round Two participants are announced.
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N.S. BUSINESS INC. -- Research In Motion Officially Opens for Business in Nova Scotia |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, April 20, 2006
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The Waterloo-based company has begun operating out of an initial location at thirty-six Solutions Drive in Halifax. In November of 2005, RIM announced it would open a new centre in Halifax. RIM's new Halifax operation is expected to create up to twelve-hundred jobs over a five-year period. Nova Scotia Business Inc. Is contributing a fourteen-million-dollar payroll rebate. The Office of Economic Development is also contributing with a five-million-dollar training and recruitment package.
Premier Rodney MacDonald says that RIM's innovation, drive and energy are reflective of Nova Scotia's skilled I-T professionals.
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Forbes makes mystery move |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
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JAY FORBES must have forgotten to include himself when he announced earlier this year there would not be any jobs lost when Aliant Inc. helps to convert itself into an income trust later this summer.
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ADP Canada is Growing in Nova Scotia |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
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ADP Canada (ADP) is expanding its Halifax operations and will hire up to 175 employees over the next three years.
The company is Canada's leading provider of outsourced employer services, such as payroll and human resources. Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI) is helping ADP with the expansion through a three-year payroll rebate of a
maximum $898,625.
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How to get satisfaction from tech support |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
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Almost every technology user has a story (or two) about unpleasant experiences dealing with technical support departments. As a guy who likes to tinker with technology I’ve made more than my fair share of inquiries to technical support departments of software, hardware and telecommunications companies. Here are a few things I’ve learned that might help you get faster and more satisfying outcomes when your favourite technology fails you.
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Working from home 'so fulfilling' |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
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Working 18 to 20 hours a day is not what Michelle Kempton had in mind.
The main reason the former software programmer and mother of 19-month-old twin boys wanted to work at home was to create a balance between her work and her home life.
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CrossOff Incorporated Announces Sale of DNA Technologies Division |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Monday, April 17, 2006
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CrossOff Incorporated announced today that it has agreed to sell its subsidiary, CrossOff.com Ltd. to Mammoth Communications Inc., a Nova Scotia based company associated with CrossOff director and former President and CEO, Donnie Snow. CrossOff.com operates an anti-counterfeiting and brand protection business under the name DNA Technologies. The revenues of CrossOff.com accounted for less than 1% of the consolidated revenues of CrossOff for the year ended December 31, 2006.
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Test-driving software for income tax returns |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Saturday, April 15, 2006
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IT’S BEEN SEVERAL weeks now since I dutifully rounded up my tax documents and put them in a neat little pile on the corner of my desk, ready for the annual tussle with the tax form. (Proctor's Piece - The ChronicleHerald.ca)
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SportsDirect Accelerates its Growth |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, April 14, 2006
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More jobs are coming to Nova Scotia. An online sports media company, SportsDirect Inc. (SDI), is expanding its operation and workforce with the help of a payroll rebate from Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI).
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Aliant launches innovative wireless service, devices |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
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Atlantic Canada - Aliant, Atlantic Canada's leading information and communications technology provider, today launched an innovative World Phone service - available using the Motorola A840 cell phone - as well as the ultra-thin Motorola RAZR V3c cell phone.
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