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Sarah Hickman

SDTC Application Advice - 0 views

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    Clean Tech Funding\n\nIf you have a new, innovative technology that helps address climate change or promotes clean water, land or air, then Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) wants to hear from you.(\n\nSDTC supports late-stage development and pre-commercial demonstration of clean technologies by Canadian companies.( (The Statement of Interest (SOI) is an initial application used for preliminary screening and is subject to a competitive review process by SDTC and a panel of independent experts. ( (Applications are evaluated on the basis of their fit with SDTC's mandate, selection criteria, and the quality of technology, marketing and business capabilities. ( (IMPORTANT - Prior to submitting an application and to ensure a good fit:\n\n 1. First review the "Application Advice" section and subsections on SDTC's web site, starting at http://www.sdtc.ca/en/funding/advice/index.htm.\n 2. Register for one of their free online webinars or workshop to learn more - see http://sdtc.ca/en/news/events/200803-61120.htm for details. \n 3. Then discuss your proposed project with one of their Applications Managers.\n
Tim T

Distimo Blog - 0 views

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  • Monthly app store report
  • T-Mobile announced it will enable customers on post-paid accounts with devices running Android 1.6 to pay using their T-mobile account
  • Beginning December 9th, customers will receive an update to Android Market that enables them to choose between paying using their Credit card or T-mobile account
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  • customers will only be able to pay for applications using operator billing when the application developer has set the price in USD
  • Motorola will launch its own app store for its Android based phones
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  • This is not the first store that will offer Android applications outside Google’s Android Market
  • Already several independent stores for Android are available, but Motorola is the first big handset vendor to launch one.
  • MotoAppstore
  • Since Android is an open platform, it is possible to install stores besides Google’s Android Market
  • The problem however is that most of the new independent Android stores are not pre-installed on the device
  • The Orange Application Shop was launched this week during the Le Web conference in Paris
  • Samsung Bada applications are coming in the first half of 2010 and will very likely be distributed via the Samsung Application Store
  • The Nokia Ovi Store is reaching close to 1 million downloads per day
  • Apple promoted a set of applications in the App Store during Black Friday. This promotion greatly influenced rankings and downloads of the featured applications
  • Samsung is holding a launch event in London next week December 8, to kick-off Samsung Bada
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Tim T

iPhone Dev Center: iPhone Human Interface Guidelines: Human Interface Principles: Creat... - 0 views

  • A great user interface follows human interface design principles that are based on the way people—users—think and work, not on the capabilities of the device
  • a beautiful, intuitive, compelling user interface enhances an application’s functionality and inspires a positive emotional attachment in users.
  • model your application’s objects and actions on objects and actions in the real world.
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  • This technique especially helps novice users quickly grasp how your application works. Folders are a classic software metaphor. People file things in folders in the real world, so they immediately understand the idea of putting data into folders on a computer.
  • iPhone OS users enjoy a heightened sense of direct manipulation because of the Multi-Touch interface. Using gestures, people feel a greater affinity for, and sense of control over, the objects they see on screen, because they do not use any intermediate device (such as a mouse) to manipulate them.
  • An iPhone application is better than a person at remembering lists of options, commands, data, and so on. Take advantage of this by presenting choices or options in list form, so users can easily scan them and make a choice. Keeping text input to a minimum frees users from having to spend a lot of time typing and frees your application from having to perform a lot of error checking. Presenting choices to the user, instead of asking for more open-ended input, also allows them to concentrate on accomplishing tasks with your application, instead of remembering how to operate it.
  • Your application should respond to every user action with some visible change.
  • Keep actions simple and straightforward so users can easily understand and remember them
  • Whenever possible, use standard controls and behaviors that users are already familiar with.
  • appearance has a strong impact on functionality: An application that appears cluttered or illogical is hard to understand and use.
  • Aesthetic integrity is not a measure of how beautiful your application is. It’s a measure of how well the appearance of your application integrates with its function. For example, a productivity application should keep decorative elements subtle and in the background, while giving prominence to the task by providing standard controls and behaviors.
  • An immersive application is at the other end of the spectrum, and users expect a beautiful appearance that promises fun and encourages discovery.
  • appearance still needs to integrate with the task.
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Texas Memory Systems Teams With NEVEX Virtual Technologies to Supercharge Virtual Appli... - 0 views

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    Texas Memory Systems (TMS) has announced their partnership with NEVEX Virtual Technologies, a Toronto-based developer of application optimized caching solutions, to develop joint solutions that will supercharge the performance of VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual applications implemented on TMS' Flash-based SSD storage devices.
Karen Schulman Dupuis

GISuser.com GIS Location Technology - Toronto's first mobile handset library helps mobi... - 0 views

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    Wavefront, a National Centre of Excellence supporting the growth and commercialization of wireless companies in Canada, is providing MaRS Commons with a mobile handset library consisting of the most popular handsets available. This means that wireless application developers no longer need to buy the multitude of handsets required to test their applications, saving time and money - a fact known to wireless innovators who have already taken advantage of Wavefront's handset library in Vancouver. 
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Mindr Mobile | Mindr Mobile, National Council of Women of Canada partner on Smartphone ... - 0 views

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    Mindr Mobile, National Council of Women of Canada partner on Smartphone application aimed to increase personal safety
Assunta Krehl

FacebookCamp Toronto 5 - Refresh Partners - 0 views

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    Facebook applications for the Facebook Camp at the MaRS Centre Feb 24, 2009.
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    Facebook applications for the Facebook Camp at the MaRS Centre Feb 24.
June A

Nielsen's New App Playbook Debunks Mobile App Store Myth | Nielsen Wire - 0 views

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    Mobile carrier app stores are a long way from dead. Despite the fanfare around application stores tied to specific mobile devices such as iPhones and BlackBerries, a new Nielsen survey finds ongoing loyalty to carrier stores. As of the end of 2009, half of all applications users were accessing carrier app stores according to Nielsen's new App Playbook.
George Botos

FDA action may rain on iPhone's medical imaging parade - 0 views

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    Interest is booming in the use of mobile devices such as Apple's iPhone for image viewing applications. But that excitement may be dampened somewhat with a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision to classify an iPhone image viewing application as a class III device requiring premarket approval.
Karen Schulman Dupuis

COMPANIES TO WATCH: Nevex targets storage and application performance - 0 views

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    Nevex is led by a group of serial entrepreneurs now on their fourth start-up, having focused on areas such as network attached translation and technology and usability in the past. The past start-ups have all been 100 per cent channel-focused, said Nevex product manager Andrew Flint. With Nevex, Flint said they've set out to tackle application performance and I/O caching.
Assunta Krehl

MaRS Discovery District - News - News Releases - 2009 - MaRS Innovation selects diabeti... - 0 views

  • MaRS Innovation and The University of Toronto (U of T) are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement to collaboratively commercialize a novel sustained release formulation of nitric oxide (NO) for applications in wound healing, including diabetic ulcers. 
  • This wound healing technology is extremely exciting, making it an early commercialization opportunity that MaRS Innovation has identified as being a potential win for some 45 million diabetics globally,” said Dr. Rafi Hofstein, President and CEO of MaRS Innovation. 
  • disruptive technology that facilitates continued therapeutic release of NO over a two week period has been developed by Dr. Ping Lee, Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and GlaxoSmithKline Chair in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery at U of T.
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  • This is one of many new commercilization ventures that will be initiated by MaRS Innovation, our partner in commercialization of research with 13 other academic institutions across the Greater Toronto Area,” said Paul Young, U of T’s Vice-President, Research. “We at U of T are delighted that this innovation from Dr. Lee will be taken to the marketplace to the benefit of society and the economy of Ontario and Canada.” 
  • With the launch of this second commercial opportunity, MaRS Innovation will continue to aggregate the exceptional science of its institutional members by being a one-stop commercialization centre for industry, entrepreneurs and investors. MaRS Innovation is expediting the transformation of the Toronto-based research into a powerful commercialization engine. 
  • “MaRS Innovation is deeply committed to facilitating strategic research collaborations with industry partners, strengthening the innovation capacity of Canadian industry through adoption of new technologies, and launching a new generation of robust, high-growth Canadian companies that will become global market leaders,” added Dr. Hofstein. “We look forward to working closely with all of our institutional members and to continue to jointly announce exciting commercial opportunities.”
  • MaRS Innovation is dedicated to bringing brilliant discoveries to market by converting the outstanding science of its member institutions into outstanding economic results for Canada and the world.
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    MaRS Innovation and The University of Toronto (U of T) announce that they have entered into an agreement to collaboratively commercialize a novel sustained release formulation of nitric oxide (NO) for applications in wound healing, including diabetic ulcers.
Assunta Krehl

Venngage: Infographic firm needed to find wider application - Financial Post - Septembe... - 0 views

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    "MaRS Discovery District is dedicated to building high-growth web and mobile startups that promise to transform the way consumers and businesses interact with technology. This week, Venngage learns how to scale a successful consumer app for a business audience."
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Three winners of 2013 Scotiabank EcoLiving Awards share $75,000 for home eco solutions ... - 0 views

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    "The Scotiabank EcoLiving Innovators Award valued at $15,000 was awarded to Quinzee from Toronto , Ontario, a company that built a web and mobile application to enable Ontarians with smart meters to be smarter homeowners. Using consumer social benchmarking as a motivator for influencing efficient energy choices and behaviours, consumers can easily track and compare their energy use for free."
Assunta Krehl

Jolt accelerator startups to get $30K in initial funding - IT Business.ca - April 30, 2012 - 0 views

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    JOLT was created by MaRS and is a new technology accelerator dedicated to building high-growth web and mobile companies that promise to transform the way consumers and enterprises connect, work and play. Applications for the JOLT program are being accepted until May 30. JOLT also announced that the program has joined the U.S.-based Global Accelerator Network, a group of accelerators from around the world which was founded in 2010.
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Storage system software | 2011 Products of the Year - 0 views

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    The cache optimization technology of Nevex Virtual Technologies CacheWorks 1.0 lets data storage administrators accelerate specific data by application, file type and location. The product installs on physical and virtual servers, and offloads I/O from primary storage to local high-performance media so storage is used for capacity, not overprovisioned for performance.
Cathy Bogaart

We Are Media - Materials - 0 views

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    Social media strategy templates: download the "tactical approaches and tools" and "strategy simulation game" . Made for non-profits, but applicable to for-profit businesses as well. From We Are Media's two-day intensive workshop.
Cathy Bogaart

PushLife is music to RIM's ears - 0 views

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    The Financial Post reports that PushLife is helping RIM level the playing field between it and the iPhone. They're now collaborating with a former RIM employee -- now an entrepreneur and MaRS client, Raymond Reddy of PushLife. The application allows customers to sync their existing music libraries on their PCs or Macs with new tunes purchased from mobile music venues without having to install a software program that replaces their existing media players such as iTunes.
Cathy Bogaart

Wave Accounting launches free service for small businesses - Techvibes - November 20, 2010 - 0 views

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    MaRS client, Wave Accounting, launches their online accounting application that is the first integrated online application to track users' business and personal finances. TechVibes' Karim Kanji reports on the benefits to SMEs.
Sarah Hickman

Amazon.com: Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise (9780071259231): Richard C. Do... - 0 views

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    "Technology Ventures" is the first textbook to thoroughly examine a global phenomenon known as "technology entrepreneurship". Now in its second edition, this book integrates the most valuable entrepreneurship and technology management theories from some of the world's leading scholars and educators with current examples of new technologies and an extensive suite of media resources. Dorf and Byers's comprehensive collection of action-oriented concepts and applications provides both students and professionals with the tools necessary for success in starting and growing a technology enterprise. "Technology Ventures" details the critical differences between scientific ideas and true business opportunities.
Cathy Bogaart

100 Online Tools for Non-Profits - 0 views

  • 100 different applications to help you out with a variety of tasks from project tracking and collaboration to donor and membership management, and from building your non-profit website to tracking its effectiveness.
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      Don't forget: * Writely (Google Docs) * Adobe Buzzword * Octopz (now sold, however, but a MaRS Client with amazing collaboration software for videos/graphics) * SpringNote - my fave
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      Missing: * Blogger * TypePad * Moveable Type * Blojsom/Blosxom, etc. * See www.cmsmatrix.org for a more fullsome CMS listing
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      Missing: * Vertical Response * Emma
  • Meetup (www.meetup.com) Meetup.com network makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one already meeting up face-to-face. Free for individuals to create an account, join a group, or attend events. Organizers choose from three pricing plans, starting at $12/month for 12 months (a single $72 charge).
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      Pricing: 6 months for only $12/month Save 37% Billed in one payment of $72.00 3 months for only $15/month Save 21% Billed in one payment of $45.00 1 month for only $19/month
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    Note that the above are all free!
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    Looking for software appropriate for your non-profit business? Here are 100 - covering ground from project tracking to collaboration to building your website.
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