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Dr. Hossein Rahnama, Research & Innovation Lead at Ryerson's Digital Media Zone, is a world authority on location-based context-aware mobile services.  MaRS Innovation  is in the process of working with Dr. Rahnama to spin out a company called Flybits.  Dr. Rahnama is interviewed on Metro Morning.

MobileMonday Toronto, Canada's leading mobile industry networking association, will be having it's  seventh annual venture capital panel pitch event at the MaRS Centre on March 5th, 2012.

InGamer Sports, a leading technology provider of real-time, interactive sports and entertainment games for the web and mobile devices is launching the InGamer platform for Game One of the Hockey Finals in partnership with The Hockey News and National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA).

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.

Which mobile social photo app should you use? Maybe MaRS client, Burstn. ReadWriteWeb compares the apps: their strengths and features and Burstn is looking good against the competitors.

Lisa Torjman's blog on Net Change Week happening June 8-12, 2009 which is designed to explore how social technology can bolster social change.

An interesting Toronto-based social-purpose business. PUBLIC is a for-profit, social-purpose business focused exclusively on advancing the public good. We are an innovation company, generating positive social impact through the creation of scalable programs, products and campaigns that: * raise money for charitable purposes * increase civic and community engagement * advance social causes and issues * create new social norms We bring an integrated, impact- driven approach to mobilizing and advancing the public good by aligning brand awareness, policy influence and fundraising. For us, "advancing the public good" is about motivating people (and organizations) to behave in ways that benefit society while recognizing and appealing to their self-interest.

On April 5, 2010 MobileMonday Toronto invite you to listen to the insights of Alex Nicolaou and Punit Soni of Google who will be discussing the increasing utility and usage of mobile devices at the MaRS Centre.

On April 5, 2010 MobileMonday Toronto invite you to listen to the insights of Alex Nicolaou and Punit Soni of Google who will be discussing the increasing utility and usage of mobile devices at the MaRS Centre.

EndLoop Studios, Five Mobile Inc. and NuLayer Inc. are three Toronto tech companies at hub of iPad app revolution. According to Krista Jones, MaRS Discovery District ICT Practice Lead, says "Toronto is an app hub because we have deep roots in both the creative and design industries, and the technical industries."

Did you InGame during the SuperBowl this weekend? InGamer fuses the three dominant screens in our lives: television, computer and mobile.

Can crowdsourcing save the directionally challenged? The Globe features MaRS ICT client, Locationary. Locationary's technology crowd-sources location information and serves it up to other online services, including mobile phone applications based on geo-location.

The Next 36 is Canada's Entrepreneurial Initiative. According to Mark Zimmerman, MaRS' Senior ICE Advisor, "the Next 36 is a student spin off of the provincially and corporately backed MaRS Centre for Innovation, if you will, which backs over 1200 startups, 140 of which are mobile."

The Next36 had a competition, Venture Day, that challenged teams to create new mobile apps and pitch their ideas to investors. The event took place at the MaRS Centre.

Omar El Akkad, Globe and Mail Technology Report states "the aftershocks of the global recession have greatly reduced the amount of money big funds are willing to give venture capital firms, and how much money those firms are willing, in turn, to give startups. But with the rise of mobile platforms and Web 2.0, the cost of starting up a tech company today are often much lower than just a few years ago, and venture capital firms are increasingly handing out cash with the expectation that it doesn't take as much money as it used to, to launch the next technology powerhouse." Oct 26, 2009

The December 7 MobileMonday Toronto networking event for mobile professionals in the Toronto region will feature guest speaker Anthony Lacavera, Chairman and CEO of Globalive Holdings, a provider of telecommunications solutions in Canada and internationally to the consumer, business and hospitality markets. The event will be held at the MaRS Centre. Nov 25, 2009

GigaOm features the launch of Guardly's mobile app. A MaRS client, Guardly's product provides a single-tap, multi-target alert system for iPhones or the iPod touch.

RIM has bought Ontario-based startup tinyHippos Inc., creator of Ripple, a cross-platform mobile application development and testing tool. tinyHippos is a MaRS client.

The Globe and Mail features the launch of Canadian-made smartphone application, MyVoice, a MaRS client. MyVoice provides a voice for those who have difficulty speaking for themselves due to autism, aphasia or other medical conditions. As such, it is both a mobile and social innovation technology.