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New web portal ITNovaScotia.com focuses exclusively on Nova Scotia’s High Tech Success |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
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Halifax, NS, May 30, 2006 - Two Halifax based consulting companies have banded together to start an industry based web portal dedicated to spreading the news about Nova Scotia’s province wide successes in Information Technology. ITNovaScotia.com, officially being launched today by partner companies Schooner Solutions and Coverra, is dedicated to becoming the home for news and information about this growing sector of the local economy, without distracting gimmicks.
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CrossOff Incorporated Negotiating New Financing |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Monday, May 29, 2006
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CrossOff announced today that it is currently in the process of negotiating for a new financing for the purpose of paying out the principal amount of its 9% Class A Unsecured Convertible Subordinated Debentures which are scheduled to mature on May 31, 2006.
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A pattern of success |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Monday, May 29, 2006
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Entrepreneur awarded Outstanding Young Canadian Award for design technology
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Bring 'em back |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, May 26, 2006
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Initiative to appeal to IT workers who have left
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Help wanted finding more IT students |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, May 25, 2006
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MOST PEOPLE LIKE a good mystery. However, the mystery I am about to describe is one that I don’t enjoy and, try as I might, I just don’t understand it.
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Lightbridge Announces Closing of Liverpool Nova Scotia Contact Center |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
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Lightbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTBG), a leading e-commerce, analytics and decisioning company, today announced the planned closing of the Liverpool, Nova Scotia contact center. Affected by this decision are approximately 200 contact center employees in Nova Scotia.
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2006 Nova Scotia Export Achievement Award |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Saturday, May 20, 2006
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For 22 years the Nova Scotia Export Achievement Awards have celebrated the success and accomplishments achieved by Nova Scotia's exporters. By making great things happen in foreign markets, these companies have made even greater things happen at home in Nova Scotia. This year's award winners have made a combined contribution of more than $370 million to the province's economy.
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IMP gets $17m loan |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, May 18, 2006
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A Halifax technology company has received a $17-million term loan and another several million in payroll rebates, the province announced Wednesday.
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Lightbridge loses contract |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Saturday, May 13, 2006
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Parties pledge to keep Liverpool call centre connected
LIVERPOOL — Lightbridge Inc., the call centre that opened with much fanfare little more than two years ago, has lost a contract with one of its major clients.
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Aliant to host international broadband experts at Broadband Services Forum meeting |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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HALIFAX, May 10 /CNW/ - The Broadband Services Forum (BSF) will hold its second quarterly meeting at the Casino Nova Scotia Hotel in Halifax, Canada between May 9 and 10, 2006. The meeting, which is being sponsored by Aliant -
Atlantic Canada's leading information and communications technology provider - is open to both members and non-members and includes a keynote session from Graham Henderson, President of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, entitled "On Line Music: Redefining an Industry".
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Island businesses have a plan |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
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AND THEN THERE were three.
There are just three Cape Breton businesses left competing for the chance to receive $100,000 in cash and in-kind contributions toward implementing their business plan in a competition spearheaded by Innovacorp, the province’s Crown corporation promoting small business development in the technology and life science sectors.
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CrossOff Incorporated Calls Meeting of 9%Unsecured Convertible Debenture Holders |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Monday, May 08, 2006
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(Halifax, Nova Scotia) CrossOff Incorporated announced today that it has requested that the holders of its 9% Unsecured Convertible Subordinated Debentures approve an extension of the term of the debentures for a period of two years, with a reduction of the conversion price to $0.90 subject to regulatory approval. The debentures are currently due May 31, 2006. A meeting of debenture holders has been called for May 30, 2006 for this purpose.
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Intel of Canada spearheads inspireyouth.ca |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, May 05, 2006
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Intel partners with youth science educators Actua and Youth Science Foundation Canada to strengthen the pool of industry experts, educators and researchers as mentors to support Canadian youth science education, careers and innovations
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Canada lags competition |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, May 05, 2006
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Canada needs to cultivate a culture of innovation in the face of increasing global competition, says Phil Sorgen, president of Microsoft Canada.
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StatsCan turns to internet |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
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Statistics Canada is trying a few new techniques when it comes to gathering information during this year's census, including filing responses through the internet.
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RIM faces fresh patent fight |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Monday, May 01, 2006
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U.S. mobility company Visto is ready to give the BlackBerry maker its latest legal battle. Execs explain their grounds for the claim.
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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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