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Tim T

Mobile Apps: Models, Money and Loyalty - 0 views

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Apple App Store

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  • Flurry Smartphone Industry Pulse, August 2009
  • The data in this report is computed from a sample size of over 2,00 live applications and over 200 million user sessions tracked each month across Apple (iPhone and iPod Touch), Google Android, Blackberry, JavaME platforms.
  • discovery of new applications is a challenge for consumers
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  • retaining users can be equally difficult
  • news apps get re-used more than once per day, at a rate of 11 times per week
  • Quadrant I is comprised of the most frequently used apps over the longest period of time; categories like News and Reference (e.g., Dictionaries, Thesauruses, Recipes, etc.)
  • more data on retention by category, as well as frequency of use
Tim T

IAB Industry Data & Landscape - 0 views

www.iab.net/...947883

Advertising

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  • Stay up to date with the latest data in interactive advertising with research and analysis from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bain, Booz & Company and more.
  • Building Brands Online: An Interactive Advertising Action Plan from Bain & Company *NEW November 2009*
  • 2009 IAB Interactive Advertising Outlook Presentation
Assunta Krehl

Privacy by Design: The Gold Standard - Canada Newswire - January 19, 2010 - 0 views

www.newswire.ca/...c2164.html

ICT Privacy events Privacy by Design: The Glod Standard

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  • Assunta Krehl on 21 Jan 10
     
    Privacy by Design: The Gold Standard is being held at the Toronto Board of Trade on International Data Privacy Day, January 28. Jointly sponsored with the Toronto Board of Trade, this is the Commissioner's second annual Privacy by Design (PbD) event marking the special day. Some of the exhibits will offer a look at the leading-edge, privacy-related work being done by a number of start-up companies working with Toronto-based innovation centre MaRS.
Tim T

iPhone Dev Center: iPhone Human Interface Guidelines: Human Interface Principles: Creating a Great User Interface - 0 views

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iphone ICT

shared by Tim T on 28 Mar 10 - Cached
  • 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.
Cathy Bogaart

Skymeter: the future of road tolls in Toronto? - 0 views

www.eyeweekly.com/...109393--service-with-a-snarl

skymeter clients clients & tenants ict cleantech transportation

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 12 Jan 11
     
    Have you read or heard about Andrew Coyne's paper, "Stuck in Traffic?" It talks about how Torontonians are spending more time commuting to work. Eye Weekly points out that we've got the technology to solve that problem right here at MaRS. It's our tenant and client, Skymeter. Skymeter, a company founded by local businessman Bern Grush, has designed a device that sits inside vehicles and tracks the location and distance of travel using GPS technology, adjusting for price changes in real time. To address privacy concerns, the Skymeter sends only the price information to authorities-data about where and when you've travelled stays inside your car, and you can erase it as often as you like. The technology has already been tested for road pricing in Asia and proved effective. So why aren't we using it in Toronto, Eye Weekly asks?
Cathy Bogaart

Toronto's 1DegreeBio brings open source innovation to biological research industry - Yonge Street, March 11, 2011 - 0 views

www.yongestreetmedia.ca/...1DegreeBio0309.aspx

1degreebio clients life sciences ict

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 11 Mar 11
     
    Minister Glen Murray (Ministry of Research and Innovation) launched MaRS as a member of the Ontario Network of Excellence last month. In his speech, he highlighted our client, 1DegreeBio. 1DegreeBio helps those in the biological sciences share their data, including being th first online independent resource listing all academic and commercially available antibodies. Score 1 for open science!
Cathy Bogaart

Hey Foursquare: With Locationary Is Your 'Rosetta Stone' Necessary? - Business Insider, Mar 16, 2011 - 0 views

www.businessinsider.com/rosetta-stone-necessary-2011-3

ict locationary web social media clients

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 17 Mar 11
     
    MaRS client Locationary is profiled as a company who's already doing what FourSquare is thinking to do. Locationary is part of our information technology, communications and entertainment practice. They offer community-sourced location-based data for free.
Cathy Bogaart

Your phone's Achilles heel: bad data - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

www.theglobeandmail.com/...article1950475

ict web clients locationary mobile

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 22 Mar 11
     
    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.
Assunta Krehl

Sangoma Ranked Among Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Canada in Deloitte Technology Fast 50(TM) - Marketwire - 0 views

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Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards & competitions ICT Hardware Software

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  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Oct 09
     
    Sangoma® Technologies Corporation a leading supplier of hardware and software enabling server-based voice and data communication applications, announced today that the company has ranked 40th among the Deloitte Technology Fast 50TM. MaRS is a program sponsor for the Deloitte Technology Fast 50TM. Oct 5, 2009
Sarah Hickman

Canadian Industry Statistics - Home - 0 views

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metrics strategy business analysis

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  • Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09
     
    Industry Canada presents Canadian Industry Statistics to help Canadian small and medium businesses understand their industries and make better business decisions.\nIndustry data, gross domestic product and labor productivity are analyzed within various sectors as defined by NAICS, 2002.Employment, wage, production, costs, performance, and capital investment information is also given per each industry.
Sarah Hickman

MaRS Discovery District - Recommended Resources - Global Market Reports - Compendium of Patent Statistics - 0 views

www.marsdd.com/...dium-of-patent-statistics.html

innovation globalization

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  • Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09
     
    This document provides the latest available internationally comparable data on patents. The patent indicators presented are designed to reflect recent trends in innovative activities across a wide range of OECD member and non-member countries.
Sarah Hickman

www.trra.ca - Homepage - Welcome to the Toronto Region: Accelerate your business in a global center of research and innovation - 0 views

www.trra.ca/index.asp

marketing market research

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  • Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09
     
    The Regional FactBase contains a wealth of information about the Toronto Region; its resourceful institutions, booming industries, and all-round prominence on the international stage. Data files, fact sheets, reports, links and other resources are available for you to view and download. TRRA welcomes questions or comments about any of the materials in the Regional FactBase.
Miri Katz

How The Private Sector Can Drive Social Innovation - CIO Central - CIO Network - Forbes - 0 views

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social innovation social collaboration CSR corporate citizenship

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  • How The Private Sector Can Drive Social Innovation
  • Out of the 100 largest economies in the world, about half are multinational corporations. Given their impact on global communities, it is becoming increasingly essential that these large corporations execute responsibility to society, rather than rely on governments and non-profits to address difficult social issues alone.
  • oday, the world’s largest companies are in a unique position to play a much greater role in driving social change than ever before.
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  • Aside from pure monetary donations, however, is a new model that is transforming corporate philanthropy.
  • Increasingly, corporations are turning to a shared value model, in which companies work in alignment with society rather than against it, producing mutual benefits to both the community and the corporation
  • It evolves the traditional model of financial and material goods donations, to one in which corporations leverage a range of corporate assets including employee skills, business acumen and partner networks, to drive social change.
  • Here’s the shift: Instead of viewing it as our responsibility to drive business and social value, view it also a valuable opportunity to rethink existing practices.
  • The business case for social innovation
  • there are a variety of benefits for an organization, from brand building, to staff retention, and even improved client stickiness. Shareholders and the investment community are also increasingly considering corporate responsibility when making investment decisions.
  • collaborations can drive innovation through necessity. Non-profits work in extreme environments, faced with limited infrastructure, connectivity and staff. Operating in these situations exposes corporate staff to new sets of customer challenges, which can often deliver innovations in product design or services into the business.
  • by working with a non-profit organization, a corporation can demonstrate its expertise to a new audience, expanding its business network.
  • Increasingly, investors weigh environmental, social and governance  data when making investment decisions. While such data has been a benchmark for European-based companies for some time, we are now seeing a more global adoption and interest in this, which should be another forcing function for more corporations to act as good corporate citizens.
  • Applying social innovation in practic
  • A good starting point is to assess the company’s available skills, expertise, partnerships against the touch-points the company currently has within a given community. From there, establish specific goals to achieve and a strategic plan to meet those goals.
  • Companies that have an expertise in technology, for example, can collaborate with non-profits or social entrepreneurs to provide the infrastructure backbone that turn their ideas into reality. With the social enterprise mPedigree Network, HP leveraged its technology expertise in cloud-based services to design and build an anti-drug counterfeiting service in Africa. Counterfeit medicine is a significant problem in developing countries, causing more than 700,000 deaths each year. The new service helps save lives by enabling patients to validate the integrity of their medicine by sending a free text message.
  • Gabi Zedlmayer is Vice President of Hewlett-Packard’s Office of Global Social Innovation.
  • Miri Katz on 29 Jun 11
     
    Out of the 100 largest economies in the world, about half are multinational corporations. Given their impact on global communities, it is increasingly essential that these large corporations execute responsibility to society, rather than rely on governments and non-profits to address difficult social issues alone
Melissa Hughes

Wearable sensor-monitoring technology could change preventative medicine forever - Techvibes - March 19, 2013 - 1 views

www.techvibes.com/...nitoring-technology-2013-03-19

Clients InteraXon wearable technology Muse Ariel Garten

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 19 Mar 13
     
    Garten's headband is called Muse, a fashion-forward brainwave sensing wearable device which monitors and collects data from your brain and sends to your smartphone or tablet. Think this sounds like a concept we will see only in the future? Think again. This device is expected to hit the market later this year.
Assunta Krehl

Federal Commission's support for pay-as-you-drive to renew aging infrastructure poses... - Reuters - 0 views

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Skymeter ICT wireless communications

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  • U.S. commission report released today underscores the need for a nationwide pay-as-you-drive system - a system akin to one refined and tested worldwide by upstart tech firm Skymeter Corp.
  • Skymeter as its technical solution partner of choice for 'Smart Transportation Pricing' technology in the city of Seoul under the Connected Urban Development program.
  • "The Commission has hit the bull's eye with its recommendations", says Skymeter CEO Kamal Hassan. "Recognizing and recommending sensible policy using reliable and cost-effective technology addresses the three evils plaguing surface transportation: under-funding, CO(2) emissions, and traffic jams." Hassan says that by opting for a sensibly-designed GPS-driven user fee system America's total CO(2) emissions will be reduced by 5% or 350 million metric tonnes, the same reduction as if one out of every four cars on the road were replaced by electric cars. It will also make the average commute around 10% faster. "Those are pretty good side effects for a system that returns the nation's road financing system to health" says Hassan.
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  • Skymeter solution solves severe GPS signal problems among numerous intersecting and parallel side-roads and offers a high degree of billing accuracy, critical to system acceptance. Skymeter is currently being tested in San Francisco against what are considered to be the best GPS receivers in North America. The results of these tests to date mirror successful European and Asian trials of Skymeter's system.
  • Skymeter Corporation is a Toronto, Canada-based data services operator that enables location-based payments using financial-grade GPS telematics. Its billing-delivery services include Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) metering for road use, parking and PAYD insurance. These services incorporate methodologies for both privacy and anonymity to ensure motorists enjoy complete privacy while traveling and absolute confidentiality of their trips. Skymeter is equivalent to an anonymous, in-car cell-phone that automatically pays for all transport services based on actual usage. Skymeter enables every form of road-use charging from small city areas such as London and Stockholm's cordon charges up to metering every vehicle in a state, province or country in order to replace fuel taxes.
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    U.S. commission report released states that there is a need\nfor a nationwide pay-as-you-drive system - a system that is similar to Skymeter Corp which is an upstart tech firm and a MaRS Tenant. Skymeter technicial solution solves the severe GPS signal problems as is currently being tested in North America. Feb 26, 2009
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    U.S. commission report released states that there is a need for a nationwide pay-as-you-drive system - a system that is similar to Skymeter Corp which is an upstart tech firm and a MaRS Tenant. Skymeter technicial solution solves the severe GPS signal problems as is currently being tested in North America.
Tim T

The Korea Herald : The Nation's No.1 English Newspaper - 0 views

www.koreaherald.co.kr/...201001130031.asp

business venture innovation ICT

shared by Tim T on 12 Jan 10 - Cached
  • LG Group said yesterday that it would invest 15 trillion won ($13.35 billion) in facilities and research and development, the largest ever annual investment in the conglomerate's history.
  • The announcement on LG's aggressive investment target came after LG Group chairman Koo Bon-moo recently said that LG should become an innovative technology company that creates a higher level of customer value.
  • Out of the 11.3 trillion won facility investment fund, the group will allocate more than 3.5 trillion won in expanding LG Display's eighth-generation production line in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, to target a larger market share in large-sized TV screens, according to LG Group.
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  • Out of LG's 3.7 trillion won R&D investment, which is up 23 percent from 2009, LG Electronics will spend 2.1 trillion won on developing smart phones, next-generation mobile phones, "smart TVs," 3-D technology and renewable energy, the company said.
  • "In the R&D sector, they are boosting smart phone R&D because it is relatively weak," he said.
Tim T

The Korea Herald : The Nation's No.1 English Newspaper - 0 views

www.koreaherald.co.kr/...201001130020.asp

business web2.0 ict digital media

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  • Despite the global recession, exports of Korean online games are expected to exceed $1.5 billion in 2009, nearly double the $1 billion recorded from the previous year. "The industry was little affected by the global economic downturn," an official at the Korean Association of Game Industry said.
  • "The sharp rise in overseas sales drove the growth of earnings and shares of Korean game companies such as NCSoft and NeoWiz last year. This trend will continue this year," said Kim Chang-kwean, an analyst at Daewoo Securities.
  • The local online game market is also expected to post solid growth this year, with a slew of planned rollouts of new games. The Korean online game market has been growing more than 20 percent annually in recent years. In 2008, the local online game industry generated revenue of 2.6 trillion won, of which $1 billion came from overseas.
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