Tuesday August 2, 2011

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Ted Talks

Adam Ostrow: After your final status update

Many of us have a social media presence -- a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personality after you've died? Could it ... live on?

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Research Grants

Grants up to $250,000 available for researchers in Fall 2011 Program

Waterloo, and New York, NY — The Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Institute for New Economic Thinking are accepting research proposals for their Fall 2011 Grant Program, with grants ranging in value from $25,000 to $250,000.

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Travel

Travel Receipts Management Solution for Use with SAP Applications

Eliminates Paper from Expense Reports to Help Companies Lower Costs, Process Travel Reimbursements Faster, More Accurately

WATERLOO - OpenText introduced a solution that works in concert with the SAP Travel Management application to eliminate the need to move paper receipts around in order to process expense reports. This can help companies significantly lower the cost and time involved with processing reimbursements, while also reducing the burden on traveling employees. The new solution will be resold by SAP as the SAP Travel Receipts Management application by OpenText.

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Grants

$115,800 provided to support Canadian co-operatives

GUELPH - The Co-operators announced $115,800 in grants to 11 emerging Canadian co-operatives. The funding is provided through The Co-operators Foundation Co-operative Development Program that supports the development of new and expanding co-operatives across the country.

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Business Growth

Canadian Company Expands into India

Toronto - Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world's largest solar companies, announced that it has signed a photovoltaic ("PV") solar module sales agreement with Cirus Solar Systems Private Limited, a solar engineering, procurement and construction company based in Hyderabad, India.

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PSA

Toronto's most extreme attraction celebrates its public opening

TORONTO - EdgeWalk at the CN Tower, Toronto's most extreme attraction, is now open to the public. At 9:30 a.m. on August 1st, adventure lovers prepared to walk on the edge of one of the world's greatest man-made wonders, 356m/1168ft (116 storeys) above the ground. Demand for reservations for Toronto's newest attraction has been high since tickets went on sale June 1.

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Manufacturing Survey

Survey finds overall conditions strengthen modestly in July with gains in new order growth

RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index

TORONTO - The pace of new order growth in the Canadian manufacturing sector quickened during July, according to the RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index, a newly launched monthly survey, conducted in association with Markit, a leading global financial information services company, and the Purchasing Management Association of Canada, which offers a comprehensive and early indicator of trends in the Canadian manufacturing sector.

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Communication

Live Streaming of Regular Season Blue Jays Games Go's Mobile

Rogers On Demand Online and Rogers On Demand Mobile let fans get in the game wherever they want

TORONTO - Rogers Communications Inc. is giving fans more ways to root for the Toronto Blue Jays. Now any Rogers customer can catch live streamed Rogers Sportsnet coverage of every pitch, hit and home run of the remainder of the 2011 Toronto Blue Jays regular season games anywhere they want.

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Anti-Spam

Consultations Have Begun on Draft Regulations for Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation and Fight Spam Website Launches

QUEBEC CITY, - The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, called attention to the regulations pursuant to Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation that were pre-published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, on July 9, 2011, for a 60-day consultation period and celebrated the launch of the Fight Spam website. On June 30, 2011, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission called for comments on its proposed regulations under the Act. The Act will likely come into force early in 2012.

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Business Browth

New investments into the development of new mining projects in Nunavik

ROUYN-NORANDA, QC - Xstrata plc (Xstrata) has approved investments totalling US$530 million for developing new mining projects at the Raglan Mine in Nunavik. With this major investment, Raglan Mine can go forward with constructing the Qakimajurq Mine and extending the depth of Mine 2, undertake major construction to the accommodations complex and make other improvements to related infrastructure.

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Guest Column

Stay Sharp, Stay Focused and don't compromise on Quality and Service
By Martha George

It's been a hummer of a summer. Hot weather, hot tempers and even hotter pricing. We can't do anything about the weather, but we sure as heck can do something about the pricing, which will automatically cool off the tempers because they are intimately connected. Phones have been ringing off the hook since the end of stimulus funding. It seems there are a lot of unhappy construction people who have seen a tsunami of out-of-region bidders on local projects.