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Lighting up the first few broadband customers |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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All the hard work residents of Tidnish and Port Howe have put in to having high speed Internet connected through their communities has finally paid off. The first pole of the province’s broadband initiative is erected, and it won’t be long before residents of the pilot project are surfing wirelessly at high speeds.
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Pilot project aims to boost workers’ computer skills |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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MILLBROOK — Nicole Fiddes was thoroughly excited at the possibility of getting a good job. The 30-year-old mother of three was convinced she had aced an interview with a local call centre. She knew she was intelligent, capable and highly motivated.
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Online courses have been offered since 1992 |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Sunday, February 25, 2007
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Distance education isn’t a new thing in Nova Scotia, but it appears the province plans to expand it to more public schools and make it easier for more students to access.
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Another call centre for Halifax |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, February 22, 2007
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Another call centre is coming to Halifax - this one setting up shop in Bayers Road Shopping Centre, with an anticipated start date of June. Admiral Group plc, a car-insurance company based in Cardiff, Wales, plans to hire 200 people by year's end. It will recruit its first 50 employees in April.
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N.S. IT firm connects U.S. voters |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, February 22, 2007
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A small Nova Scotia company is credited with helping millions of ex-patriot Americans vote in the U.S. mid-term elections last November.
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Centre seeking tenant to replace EDS |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Monday, February 12, 2007
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Efforts are underway to find a new tenant to occupy a call centre building in Port Hawkesbury when EDS Canada pulls out this spring.
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Techlink Entertainment Forecasting Significant Growth |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Saturday, February 10, 2007
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Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada – 8 February 2007 – Techlink Entertainment (Techlink), a Nova Scotia based developer and manufacturer of proprietary responsible gaming technologies, today announced plans for rapid commercialization of its unique card based informed player choice system.
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E-marketing company launches new website |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, February 7, 2007 – Halifax-based Mailworkz, an innovative e-marketing solutions company, announced today the launch of its new, dynamic website, www.mailworkz.com. The company created the site to reflect and support its fully integrated suite of products and services to help customers identify and fulfill their e-marketing needs.
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SolutionInc and Fast Data Technology Partner |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, February 02, 2007
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Halifax, Nova Scotia and Boulder, Colorado, February 2, 2007: SolutionInc Technologies Limited (TSX-VEN: STL), a leader in Internet management, provisioning and billing, and Fast Data Technology have joined forces to add web content control as a new offering to SolutionInc's portfolio of services.
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EastLink Selects Sigma Systems to Deploy Service Management Solutions |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, February 02, 2007
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Halifax, Nova Scotia - Sigma Systems, www.sigma-systems.com, a premier provider and leader in the design, development and deployment of OSS service management solutions, has been selected by EastLink, Canada's fifth largest cable provider, to license Sigma's Service Management Platform (SMP) for the delivery of residential and commercial telephone and Internet services. Sigma's service management solution will be integrated / and certified with EastLink's billing platform.
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ATLANTIC JOB GROWTH CONTINUES AT CGI WITH ADDITION OF SAP TEAM |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, February 01, 2007
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 31, 2007 - CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE:GIB), one of the largest independent information technology and business process services firms in the world, continues to increase the size and skills diversity of its Atlantic-based workforce with the addition of a Halifax-based SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) consulting practice. This team serves local clients in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and global companies through its Atlantic Global Delivery Center (AGDC).
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RIM action not expected to hurt company |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Saturday, January 27, 2007
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TORONTO — Research in Motion Ltd. stock is unlikely to feel much impact from a pension fund’s efforts to have the company sue its own directors, observers say.
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Local musicians use Internet to build business |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, January 26, 2007
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The Internet has become an integral part of our lives. Never before have we been so close and so connected. While you’re busy checking e-mails and googling tips on improving your poker skills, a revolution of sorts is going on: a thriving online community is changing the music industry.
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Xwave's defense and aerospace operation expanding |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
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One of Canada's largest information and communications technology (ICT) services companies is growing its defence, security and aerospace operations in this province. Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI) authorized a payroll rebate to xwave's defense and aerospace operation for a maximum of $4,515,000 over a five-year period to create up to 250 incremental full-time jobs.
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Acadia student runs mega web business from bedroom |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
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It’s a typical student apartment: bare walls, second-hand furniture and a couple of 20-somethings on the couch half studying and half watching TV. You’d never know that upstairs another student is running one of the fastest- growing web-hosting companies on the Internet.
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Attention, shoppers |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, January 19, 2007
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Hackers break into huge retail chain’s credit card, debit data
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ACOA hands out $16.4 to Nova Scotia-based projects |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, January 18, 2007
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Peter MacKay, minister of Foreign Affairs and minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), announced on Wednesday that the federal government will invest up to $67.1 million in research and development projects in Atlantic Canada through ACOA’s Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF).
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CGI ANNOUNCES DETAILS FOR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND FISCAL 2007 Q1 RESULTS |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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Montreal, Quebec, January 16, 2007 - CGI Group Inc. (CGI) (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB), a leading provider of end-to-end information technology and business process services, will host its Annual General Meeting of shareholders for fiscal 2006 and release its fiscal 2007 first quarter results on Tuesday, January 30, 2007. The Annual General Meeting will be held at the Omni Mont-Royal Hotel in Montreal at 11 a.m. (EST). For those who are unable to attend in person, the Company will webcast the meeting on its website at www.cgi.com.
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Liverpool call centre hiring 40 |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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Roger’s customers may call in with complaints, but the call center itself is getting good feedback.
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Bubbles and gang may soon wind up in video game |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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LUNENBURG — Just think, you, too, could be Ricky, honing his horticultural skills, or Bubbles, lovingly caressing a kitty, or Julian with drink in hand and mighty words of advice sputtering from his lips.
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Xwave plans Irish exit |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, January 11, 2007
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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. (CP) — Xwave, a division of Bell Aliant, will shut down its offices in Dublin, Ireland, at the end of the month.
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Aliant's ship comes in on Xwave |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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Kent takes tech division from an afterthought to economic powerhouse for telecommunications company
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Broadband boost key to meeting N.S. tech goals |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Monday, January 08, 2007
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LAST WEEK at Northport Elementary School in Cumberland County, the Grade 3 students sat front and centre while parents, community members and business owners were right behind them. They were all there as my government announced high-speed broadband Internet expansion has begun, starting with their communities from Tidnish to Port Howe.
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An eye on IT trends |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Sunday, January 07, 2007
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He’s still into real estate but John Lindsay Jr. has expanded into Net access for buildings
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High-Speed Broadband Expansion Begins |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, January 04, 2007
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Internet access is about to get a bit faster in many rural areas of Nova Scotia.
The expansion of high-speed Internet access to all of Nova Scotia will begin this month in a cluster of rural communities from Tidnish to Port Howe. The province's goal is to make Nova Scotia the most connected area in all of North America.
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CGI ATLANTIC GLOBAL DELIVERY CENTER ACHIEVES CMMI LEVEL 3 |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, January 04, 2007
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 4, 2007 - CGI Group Inc. (CGI) (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB) has attained CMMI Level 3 as defined by the Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) at its Atlantic Global Delivery Center (AGDC) in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. This was achieved 9 months after the center’s ISO 9001:2000 certification and within two and a half years of the establishment of the AGDC. This is the latest quality initiative underway at the AGDC which provides application development and maintenance services to clients across North America.
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Fibre optic network nears fruition |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
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The executive director of the Kings Community Economic Development Agency (Kings CED) says despite a couple of minor setbacks that affected the project timeline, the Valley Community Fibre Network (VCFN) is on the cusp of fruition.
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Capital Health Sites Linked on Fibre-Optic Network |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
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Halifax, December 28, 2006 – Two data centres operated by Capital District
Health Authority (CDHA) and Health Information Technology Services - Nova Scotia (HITS-NS) are now linked by redundant fibre-optic telecommunications service provided by Halifax firm Internetworking Atlantic Incorporated
(IAI).
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TechPortJobs.ca now live |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, December 28, 2006
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The new ITANS/NSBI job listing website now appears to have gone live.
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Blackberry sales up 49 per cent for RIM |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, December 22, 2006
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. posted preliminary third-quarter results Thursday and said that net profits hit US$176 million as sales climbed 49 per cent.
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New England investors jump into Knowledge House fray |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, December 21, 2006
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A group of more than 20 Knowledge House Inc. shareholders from New England are blaming National Bank Financial Ltd. for causing the former e-learning company’s shares to plummet in value in 2001 so they became virtually worthless.
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The best and brightest |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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Nominations have been released for the seventh annual "Metro Halifax Business Awards", as presented by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, and four members of the IT industry have been recognized with a nomination.
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RIM gets reprieve from securities regulator, may continue trading |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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Research In Motion Ltd. won a delay from Ontario securities regulators Monday, allowing it to continue trading on the Toronto stock market while insiders are held to a cease-trade order as the Blackberry maker continues to work on its second-quarter financial report and stock-option records.
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NSBI focused on IT sector in 2006 |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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Since Nova Scotia Business Inc. was created as the arm’s-length development arm of the provincial government in 2001, it has authorized 44 payroll rebates, assisted in creating up to 13,000 jobs and participated in more than 50 trade missions, which it says have contributed more than $100 million in sales.
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Fibre network rep speaks at Shiretown council session |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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Kentville town council hasn’t committed to becoming a partner in the Valley Community Fibre Network (VCFN) but it received a sales pitch of sorts at the December session. Representatives of the VCFN made a presentation to council about the proposed fibre optic cable network on Wednesday, December 13.
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Wi-Fi for the road from SolutionInc |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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Chances are, you'll never see the best work SolutionInc Ltd. of Halifax does. That's because the company does its utmost to keep it invisible. People there work behind the scenes to make hotel guests' Web experience a seamless one.
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nCipher hit by Abridean slowdown |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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LONDON (SHARECAST) - Encryption software specialist nCipher has run into problems with its recent acquisition Abridean, which is performing well below its expectations.
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Jacques Whitford and Bell Aliant: The details |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Monday, December 18, 2006
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In an effort to centralize the ICT aspects of their sprawling operations, Halifax-based environmental and geotechnical engineering firm Jacques Whitford has inked a $40-million outsourcing deal with ICT provider Bell Aliant.
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Jacques Whitford positions for growth and selects Bell Aliant |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, December 15, 2006
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HALIFAX, NS — One of Canada’s most innovative environmental and geotechnical engineering firms has partnered with Atlantic Canada’s largest information and communications technology (ICT) provider for outsourced support of its entire ICT environment. Today, Bell Aliant (TSX: BA.UN) and Jacques Whitford jointly announced they have signed an agreement to outsource the operation of Jacques Whitford’s IT infrastructure and implement a fully managed Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony environment. The contract, which will be carried out in part through Aliant and xwave, the IT Division of Bell Aliant, has a seven-year term and is valued at more than $40 million.
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Web systems redirect emergency calls |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, December 14, 2006
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Buying a discount Internet telephone package could turn out to be bad for your health.
The province’s Emergency Management Office warned Tuesday that links to the emergency 911 system are delayed with Internet telephones, which are increasingly popular in Nova Scotia.
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SolutionInc and Quadriga Celebrate Joint Success |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada – Dec 11th, 2006 – SolutionInc Limited (TSX - VEN:STL) and Quadriga Worldwide announced today that they have completed more than 100 installs together in hotels across Europe and the Middle East. This milestone is a result of the European hotel market’s growing requirement for high speed Internet access, combined with their demand for an integrated entertainment and Internet services solution.
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Come home, job ad urges |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, December 08, 2006
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Earlier this week, the J.D. Irving-owned recruiting website CareerBeacon.com put a 37-page colour publication into Alberta newspapers, encouraging expatriate Atlantic Canadians to take advantage of the labour shortage back home [Editor’s note: Please see Daily Business Buzz’ NewsMakers section from Tuesday, December 5 – S.H.]. Entitled Come Home to a Career in Atlantic Canada, the insert pushes large construction projects across the region and the hot IT sector in Halifax.
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Rural areas awaiting high speed Internet |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
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Chances are pretty good that John Robert will have difficulty reading this story on the Vanguard's website. The Robert's Island resident has tried in vain for several years to get improved Internet service in his area but, like many residents of rural Nova Scotia, does not have access to high speed broadband Internet. What he does have is access to a dial-up connection, of which Robert doesn't have a very high opinion. "Not only are we relegated to dial-up, but the quality of the dial-up is appalling," he said.
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Province to test broadband infrastructure |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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The province is about to test a plan to use publicly-owned communication towers to provide broadband Internet service to all rural communities by 2009. And, during a visit to Cape Breton on Friday, Premier Rodney MacDonald said a company in industrial Cape Breton will be awarded the lucrative contract. On the Government Procurement website, five vendors listed proposals to provide broadband services to rural Nova Scotia but only Seaside Communications is located on the island. The other companies are Aliant, Barrett Xplore Inc., TDC Broadband and TNC Wireless.
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Internet key to Nova Scotia’s new tourism strategy |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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The vast resources of the Internet will be a key to the province’s new tourism plan which will be unveiled Monday in Halifax. “E-commerce, we will see a lot more of that,” said Cape Breton’s Eleanor Anderson, director of the Nova Scotia Vision Team, an industry group that has been working with the province in developing tourism initiatives. “There is a heavy co-operative component, lots of opportunity for industry to join, whether it’s sales efforts in marketplaces in Ontario, the United States, Calgary or elsewhere.”
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Cyberplex Announces Acquisition of Incentaclick Media Group |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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TORONTO, Dec. 1 /CNW/ - Cyberplex Inc. (TSX: CX), a North American
technology and web solutions firm, is pleased to announce the acquisition of
Incentaclick Media Group Inc. ("Incentaclick"), a firm specializing in on-line
advertising and customer acquisition.
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SolutionInc Limited Announces Highest Quarterly Revenue |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, December 01, 2006
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Halifax, NS, November 29, 2006: SolutionInc Technologies Limited (TSX-VEN: STL), a leader in Internet management, provisioning, and billing, released today its unaudited consolidated interim results for the second quarter ended September 30, 2006. The Company recorded its highest quarterly revenue to date of $848,884, up 63% over $520,693 for the second quarter ended September 30, 2005, and its first quarter of positive EBITDA* of $5,420, up 101% over an EBITDA* loss for the three months ended September 30, 2005.
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Stop-trading order issued for Helical |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Friday, December 01, 2006
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Executives in a Halifax company that specializes in the development of software to sort through large amounts of data have been ordered not to buy or sell shares in their company for the next 15 days.
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Youth Will Stay and Grow in New Nova Scotia |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, November 30, 2006
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Nova Scotians can look forward to broadband Internet service throughout the province by 2010, as well as other steps to make Nova Scotia a leader in information technology, Premier Rodney MacDonald said in his first State of the Province address.
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Tories mum on cost of Internet vow |
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By ITNovaScotia Admin on
Thursday, November 30, 2006
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All parts of Nova Scotia will have access to high-speed Internet access by 2010, Premier Rodney MacDonald said Wednesday.
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