2009/07/03, Ottawa, Ontario - On June 23, 2009, Mr. Jay Josefo of Toronto was appointed as a member of the NRC Council, a group of science, technology and business leaders who provide strategic direction for the organization. READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareDavid Crow is making the trip from Toronto next week to do a Social Media Breakfast. Here is the info via Simon Chen…Who’s speaking?We’ve got David Crow joining us for Breakfast 10! David is Microsoft Canada’s User Experience Evangelist. And, many of the startup community will know David well as being the instigator of Demo READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareJamie Oaslter has come up with an amazing idea: A WordPress Developers Pub Night! Jamie is proposing that Tuesday July 7th, 2009 be the first Ottawa WordPress Developers Pub Night.Location and time are subject to interest from the community. Current theory is a start time of 8pm at Shoeless Joe’s at 3049 Carling Ave which [...] READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareGiven Nortel’s slow march into the abyss, a lot of people might have forgotten about Frank Dunn, the ex-CEO who was abruptly fired five years ago amid allegations of an accounting scandal.Since then, Dunn has been involved in litigation after being sued, along with several other Nortel executives by the Securities and Exchange Commission for READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareCATA proposes test beds in government READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareNokia Siemens Networks’ efforts to win public support for its $650-million bid for Nortel’s CDMA wireless business and LTE R&D unit went on the offensive yesterday when NSN CFO Luca Maestri told a press conference in Toronto that the company not only plans to keep all 800 wireless jobs in Canada but add more as [...] READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • Share2009/10/10, Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique - This year's seminar will address the efficient use of energy in buildings through five presentations on recent research and one on issues related to energy codes. READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareBridgewater could benefit from the one area where carriers are still spending... READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareBritish satellite communications firm Inmarsat has completed its acquisition of a 19-per-cent stake in Ottawa-based SkyWave Mobile Communications Inc., which in turn has wrapped up its purchase of...... READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareOTTAWA, ON, July 2, 2008 – Ottawa-area students have been selected to participate in this year’s Summer Company Program. Now in its eighth year, the province-wide program will help over 500 young entrepreneurs launch and manage successful summer businesses across Ontario. Participation in Ottawa has increased by more than 75 per cent this [...] READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareAndrew Ross just passed on the fact that the Free and Open Source Software Learning Centre will be putting on an open source business breakfast on the 8th of July. The event runs from 8:30 a.m to 10:00 a.m and will cost $10 for anyone wanting to meet members of the business, government and academic [...] READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareNortel may be trying to sell its LTE R&D unit to Nokia Siemens but there’s a lot of chatter about what’s not part of the deal: some LTE patents.The talk was triggered by a recent estimate from JP Morgan Chase analyst Ehud Gelblum could be worth as much as $2.9-billion in terms of royalty payments.According [...] READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • Share
Bert Hill looks at the remaining assets of Nortel Networks, and what they might bring
By Bert Hill, The Ottawa Citizen
Going into bankruptcy, Nortel Networks had hopes of emerging as a viable, slimmed-down player in the communications technology industry.
But the announced sale of its mainstay CDMA and LTE wireless
READ MORE
Is there hope for Nortel to continue as a standalone company without going through a firesale of all its best assets?The Ottawa Citizen reports that MatlinPatterson Global Advisors, a $9-billion private equity investor, may be interested in bidding for Nortel.MatlinPatterson’s biggest obstacle could be a lack of time it has to put together a READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareIt looks John McHugh, VP, enterprise data solutions with Nortel’s enterprise business, looks to be getting his ducks lined for a new employer amid rumors the business could soon be sold to Avaya for $500-million.In an interesting interview with Network World’s Tim Greene, McHugh suggests that Nortel should bring back the Bay Networks b READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • Share
MatlinPatterson works on competing bid for wireless asset auction, believes company can survive without breakup
By Bert Hill, The Ottawa Citizen
A giant U.S. vulture fund is in the hunt for Nortel Networks.
MatlinPatterson Global Advisors, a $9-billion private equity investor in distressed companies, says it believes Nortel can survive as a
READ MORE
2009/07/01, Victoria, Colombie-Britannique - When Galileo first pointed his crude telescope at the sky, he saw details of the moon and planets that no one had seen before. His observations that the moon had craters and mountains, that the Milky Way resolved into countless stars, and that Venus had phases changed forever how we see our place in the READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareThis CATA exclusive Teleforum recording and presentation provides detailed information on a new QUALCOMM sponsored global competition designed to provide over $500,000 in early stage capital for enterprising technology companies. READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • Share2009/07/01, Victoria, Colombie-Britannique - Dr. Ken Tapping of the NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Penticton explains what radio telescopes tell us about the universe. READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • Share2009/07/01, Victoria, Colombie-Britannique - Dr. Marois has good reason to be excited these days. He and his team of Canadian, U.S. and British astronomers were recently in the limelight for capturing the first-ever direct images of another solar system within our own galaxy, the Milky Way. READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareHigh-performance digital camera maker Lumenera Corp. said it's partnered with Litco Technologies, which will resell the Ottawa-based firm's Internet protocol-based surveillance cameras in the Canadian...... READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • Share2009/07/01, Victoria, Colombie-Britannique - The Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research (CANFAR) aims to adapt existing Canadian scientific computing facilities to make virtual collaborations more productive for Canadian university astronomers. READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • Share2009/07/01, Ottawa, Ontario - Astrophysics research at NRC is carried out by the NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, with facilities located in Victoria and Penticton, B.C. This institute is a world leader in the development of advanced instrumentation. READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • Share
As Nortel crumbles, analysts consider the fate of high-tech sector in capital
Canada's capital once had a nickname likening it to the sunny California home of companies like Apple and Google.
It was the large concentration of high-tech companies around San Jose, Calif., that led the area to be dubbed Silicon Valley. An abundance of those comp
READ MORE
N-able Technologies is hoping to reach out more to the U.S. retail technology industry with the announcement that it's joined the Retail Solutions Providers Association.... READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareFor years, Nokia has been focused on getting a stronger foothold in North America so the proposed purchase of Nortel’s CDMA business is an important element in that strategy.MarketWatch has a story looking at Nokia’s North American efforts. It includes this quote from Frost & Sullivan analyst Ronald Gruia that illustrates how sweet READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • Share
'Test beds' would allow departments to try cutting-edge products without seeking bids
By Kathryn May, The Ottawa Citizen
Canada's high-tech leaders are quietly pressing the Harper government to use federal departments as trial sites for cutting-edge products so fledgling firms can break into global markets and rebuild the country's sagging techn
READ MORE
By Bert Hill, The Ottawa Citizen
An Ontario judge has opened the door to help for some victims of the Nortel Networks bankruptcy proceedings.
Justice Geoffrey Morawetz of the Ontario Superior Court said in a decision he believes there are sufficient Nortel assets to help hardship cases among people denied severance or parts of pension income.
READ MORE
Grid management technology company GridPoint Inc. has acquired a local competitor's energy business for an undisclosed sum, in order to establish its Canadian presence.... READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareCATAAlliance has issued a call for Governments at the federal, provincial and municipal levels to create Technology Test Beds, as a vehicle and incubator to conceive, develop and sustain new solutions for government productivity and to help create reference accounts for Canadian technology companies pursing international markets. READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareNews alert: Nortel chief strategy officer, George Riedl, is alive and well. It’s been three years since Riedl was lured away from Juniper Networks where he had a reputation for acquisitions.Over the past three years, however, Nortel has only made one acquisition (Tasman Networks for $99-million) so it’s not like Riedl has been leading READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareTalent management software firm Halogen Software is teaming up with e-learning company SkillSoft (NASDAQ:SKIL) to offer...... READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareZarlink Semiconductor Inc. (TSX:ZL) processor technology is being used in Swiss firm Albis Technologies' network access...... READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareSuccessful program set to expand to Toronto... READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareOntario sales tax harmonization alert recording now available READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareThe Financial Post ran an extensive cover story about Nortel’s decline yesterday, which recapped how Canada’s flagship high-tech company has fallen so dramatically over the past few years. There’s little that’s eye-opening but some quotes from Nortel director John Manley are, frankly stunning.“It is a huge loss for Ca READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • Share
By Bert Hill, The Ottawa Citizen
Major Nortel Networks creditors are opposing key parts of the $650-million U.S. sales agreement for wireless assets to Nokia Siemens Networks.
They want significant admendments to the court-sanctioned auction process because they believe the current rules are rigged in favour of NSN to discourage higher bid
READ MORE
It’s fairly unanimous that Nokia Siemens got a great deal when it picked up Nortel’s CDMA business and LTE R&D unit for $650-million - especially given the CDMA business had a profit of $700-million last year (although that is expected to decline as the CDMA continues to go south).Nortel entered into a “stalking horse” READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • Share
