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RIM bosses ordered to halt trading |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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TORONTO — The Ontario Securities Commission has ordered officers and insiders of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., including co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, to stop trading in the company’s stock after it missed financial reporting deadlines.
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More jobs coming on stream in Cape Breton |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, October 27, 2006
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A major employer in Glace Bay is getting bigger. Stream recently celebrated its fifth anniversary in Glace Bay with an open house and announcements, including the hiring of 500 to 600 more people.
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SolutionInc Limited and TeleBarbados Announce Multi-Year Strategic Partnership |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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Halifax, NS and Barbados, WI; October 24, 2006 – SolutionInc Limited announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with Internet service provider TeleBarbados Inc. to provide gateway Internet software for provisioning high speed Internet service in hotels and commercial properties throughout Barbados and St. Lucia.
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Information technology gets up to speed in Nova Scotia |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, October 19, 2006
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Nova Scotia’s thriving, but underexposed, IT sector got a huge moral boost last month when the Information Technology Association of Canada held its annual board meeting in Halifax. It was the first time the group of high profile national leaders in the sector had ventured outside of Ontario for one of its meetings.
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Florida company buys Halifax web business |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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Website Pros, Inc. of Florida, which provides Internet marketing and other web-related services to small- and medium-sized businesses, has acquired most of the assets of Halifax’s Renovation Experts.com, an online marketplace for contractors and homeowners.
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Golden Gate Capital to buy Sierra Systems |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Sierra Systems Group Inc. (TSX:SSG) has signed a deal to be bought by a U.S. private-equity firm for $93.2 million in cash, the information-technology company said Monday.
Editor's Note: Sierra Systems retains a Halifax office.
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RIM delays Q2 results |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Sunday, October 15, 2006
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Research In Motion Ltd. warned Friday that it will miss the Oct. 17 filing of its second-quarter financial results with regulators because of an accounting investigation over stock options.
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The benefits of work |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Saturday, October 14, 2006
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Use of a ski chalet. Gym memberships. These are some of the extras offered by the Maritime’s top employers
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IWK launches bilingual website |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, October 13, 2006
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Extensive information in both official languages about the Maritimes’ only children’s hospital is now just a mouse click away.
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RIM gets Bedford go-ahead |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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Regional council paved the way Tuesday night for an Ontario company to build a $230-million technical support centre that will employ 1,200 people.
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Community meetings held on Internet |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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TRURO — Meetings of the Coastal Communities Network have gone digital, with a video-conferencing session at community colleges around Nova Scotia.
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Free Internet service crucial for many |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Monday, October 09, 2006
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Aa part of the federal Conservative government’s $1 billion in cuts to many important social programs, Nova Scotians will no longer have access to free Internet service at Community Access Program sites across the province after March 31.
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NSGC Announces Pilot Test of Internet Gambling Blocking Software |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Monday, October 09, 2006
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It is estimated there are more than 2,300 casino-style Internet gambling sites in operation, many of which are
unregulated and illegal. Today, the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation (NSGC) announced the pilot test of BetStopper, groundbreaking software that will help block gambling sites such as these from children under the age of 19.
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Penguins sold to RIM exec |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, October 06, 2006
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The Pittsburgh Penguins have been purchased by Jim Balsillie, the co-chief executive officer of Canada's Research in Motion Ltd., the company that makes the wireless messaging device BlackBerry.
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Gaga over Google |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, October 05, 2006
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Researcher from world’s most popular search engine in town
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Halifax firm links InNOVAcorp sites on fibre-optic network |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
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InNOVAcorp's three business incubation facilities in Halifax-Dartmouth are now linked through a high-capacity fibre-optic telecommunications network spanning the Halifax Harbour. InNOVAcorp clients, made up of early stage
companies, will soon benefit from advanced data and voice services typically only accessible by larger companies.
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Call centre shuffles workers |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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EDS Canada is moving some of its call centre functions — and 160 jobs — from Port Hawkesbury to Sydney.
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RIM to review stock-option grants |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, September 29, 2006
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TORONTO (CP) — Research In Motion Ltd. surprised the market late Thursday by announcing it has initiated a review of stock-option grants as far back as 1997 but the news failed to dampen investors’ enthusiasm for RIM stock.
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Helical to acquire interest in CableTec Business Network Solutions Ltd. |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, September 28, 2006
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HALIFAX, NS, Sept. 28 /CNW/ - The Helical Corporation Inc. ("Helical"), (TSX Venture-HSI) announced today that it has entered into a Letter of Intent with CableTec Business Network Solutions Ltd. ("CableTec Business Network
Solutions") of Dartmouth, NS. to subscribe for 4,000,000 shares in CableTec Business Network Solutions representing 80% of the outstanding common shares of CableTec Business Network Solutions.
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"Atlantic Canada is not close to reaching its full potential" |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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Although this article doesn't focus specifically on IT, it seems to express some of the concerns raised by many in the local IT sector on how our government "supports" business development in the region. Perhaps it is time that this issue be raised to a higher level and actually reviewed.
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Helical Announces Changes in Officers and Directors |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, September 21, 2006
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HALIFAX, NS, Sept. 20 /CNW/ - The Helical Corporation Inc. ("Helical"), a corporation whose trades of common shares are quoted on the TSX Venture Exchange, (TSX Venture-HSI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr.
William (Bill) Fleming as President and Chief Executive Officer of Helical.
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Cyberplex Announces Elimination of its $13.5 Million Lease Obligation |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
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TORONTO, Sept. 20 /CNW/ - Cyberplex Inc. (TSX:CX) ("Cyberplex" or the "Company") today announced that it has successfully negotiated a termination agreement for its current leased facilities in Toronto resulting in a reduction to its long-term commitments by approximately $13.5 million.
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nCipher profits halve despite sales boost |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
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LONDON (SHARECAST) - Encryption specialist nCipher gave an upbeat assessment of its prospects despite profit halving in the first half of the year.
Editor's Note: nCipher owns local Halifax based Abridean
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Workers’ Internet use can be a problem |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Sunday, September 17, 2006
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MOST SMALL businesses have relatively few employees, but almost all have computers and Internet access. So the question remains, do you need to have an Internet access policy, or IAP?
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Wait for high-speed Internet hurting businesses |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, September 14, 2006
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Businesses and people who live in the Eastern Shore area can’t wait another four years for high-speed Internet, says Marike Finlay-de Monchy, a freelance writer and publisher.
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Router woes disrupt service |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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A dead router has disrupted service at Supercity Internet Services Ltd. of Halifax, says company president John McNeil.
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Province pumps $430,000 into rural Internet project |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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AMHERST — A pilot project that could determine the best way to bring high-speed Internet service to rural and remote areas of the province is about to start in the Tidnish-Port Howe area of Cumberland County.
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The Pearl is a real gem of a BlackBerry |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, September 08, 2006
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TORONTO — Research In Motion Ltd. has revealed the latest addition to its line of BlackBerry products, the Pearl, which adds consumer-oriented features such as a camera and a "pearl-like" trackball to move the cursor.
Editor's Note: RIM maintains a Halifax office.
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ACIS® Receives Top Marks in Fuld Intelligence Software Report® |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, September 07, 2006
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 6, 2006 - Coemergence's ACIS® has received a highly positive review in Fuld & Company's annual Intelligence Software Report®, positioning Coemergence as a leading player at the top end of the intelligence software market. Fuld is the preeminent research and consulting firm in the field of business and competitive intelligence (CI).
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Aliant Customers first to access Streaming TV Clip service... |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
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Atlantic Canada - Aliant customers now have access to the first mobile streaming video clip service in Atlantic Canada via their cellular phone. Streaming TV Clip service, powered by QuickPlay Media, provides customers with unlimited access almost instantly to the latest news headlines, sports updates, weather forecasts, music videos and entertainment TV highlights right on their Aliant multimedia cellular phone.
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Medusa Medical draws an angel |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Monday, August 28, 2006
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Firms attracting venture capital in bid to computerize health care.
Aug 29 - Additional story link added
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Minacs to cut up to 200 jobs |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, August 24, 2006
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Just months after hiring 300 people for its Halifax call centre, Minacs Worldwide is laying off workers.
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Queens forgives Lightbridge rent |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, August 17, 2006
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LIVERPOOL — The Region of Queens has signed off on a deal to wipe out eight months of rent owed by the Lightbridge Inc. call centre in return for all the furniture and equipment in the municipally owned building out of which it operated.
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Cheticamp rings one up |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
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Cape Breton community gets $2-million call centre, up to 115 new jobs
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Students create website to fund education |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
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A quartet of Dalhousie University students — three in commerce and one in science — has begun their own website, www.paymydegree.com, to try to convince businesses and ordinary folks to pay for their education.
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Sierra Systems Group Q3 profit $1.3M, down from $2.7M a year ago |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
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Sierra Systems Group Inc. (TSX:SSG) said Thursday that its third-quarter profit was cut in half compared to a year ago, hurt by the cancellation of a contract in the U.S., severance costs and contract implementation delays.
Editor's Note: Sierra maintains a Halifax office
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N.S. to offer new geomatics diploma |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Saturday, July 29, 2006
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MIDDLETON — Ten students from across Canada are expected to enrol in a new advanced diploma program in geomatics programming at the Nova Scotia Community College.
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