Nortel Strikes Deal with Long-Disability Employees

By: OttWatch 7 hours ago Source: All About Nortel from http://www.allaboutnortel.com

One of the more troubling offshoots of Nortel’s financial demise has been the uncertain fate of about 400 employees on long-term disability. Part of the problem was that the plan was being funded by Nortel rather than an external entity. As a result, it was unclear whether these employees would continue to receive their benefits [...] READ MORE

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CATAnet TV – Innovation Nation, Flagships, CEO Leadership, Mobility Technologies & Social Media

By: OttWatch 14 hours ago Source: Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance from http://www.cata.ca

CATA regularly speaks out on issues of concern to Canada's High Tech Sector: Watch the latest CTV Tech NOW interview of CATA CEO John Reid, by CTV host, Paul Brent as they discuss Innovation Nation, Flagships, CEO Leadership, Mobility Technologies & Social Media. READ MORE

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WiLAN and Telus settle patent litigation

By: OttWatch 14 hours ago Source: Ottawa Business Journal-Technology News from http://www.obj.ca

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Calling All Aspiring Entrepreneurs – Compete for a $25,000 Valued Prize at NBTC

By: OttWatch 15 hours ago Source: Startup Ottawa from http://www.startupottawa.com

This just in via Chung-Sang Tse, the Marketing & Publications Director for the National Business and Technology Conference (NBTC) 2010As one of NBTC’s signature events, the Entrepreneurship Competition allows teams from across the country to present their innovative business plans to a panel of experienced entrepreneurs and industry prof READ MORE

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IXL Center presents: Ronald Jonash

By: OttWatch 15 hours ago Source: Startup Ottawa from http://www.startupottawa.com

The IXL Center (www.ixl-center.com) is bringing Ronald Jonash, co-founder of the Monitor Innovation practice, to Ottawa for a workshop on developing innovative business practices in your organization. Innovation has emerged as one of the most important business topics of the new decade and our workshop aims to teach companies how to attribute inno READ MORE

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Take me out to the video game

By: OttWatch 17 hours ago Source: Ottawa Business Journal-Technology News from http://www.obj.ca

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MyMapNow is hiring

By: OttWatch 17 hours ago Source: Startup Ottawa from http://www.startupottawa.com

MyMapNow is a geographic, real-time trend discovery application (fires, accidents, really happenin’ parties downtown etc). Using smart-phones, aggregation of real-time data, and really smart algorithms, we will present relevant data to the end-user.They are looking for an experienced person to really help move this project forward.Job Descri READ MORE

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Ottawa Flash UG Presents: Nicholas Small

By: OttWatch 17 hours ago Source: Startup Ottawa from http://www.startupottawa.com

This just in from Zee Yang!Come join us for another user group meetup on March 3. This time, we have invited a special speaker, Nicholas Small, from the Cappuccino team.Cappuccino is a new, open source Rich Internet Application framework. It abstracts a lot of the gnarly details of HTML and JS, and provides a [...] READ MORE

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Shopify in the New York Times Blog

By: OttWatch 17 hours ago Source: Startup Ottawa from http://www.startupottawa.com

There is a great story about Shopify in the New York Time’s Blog about the Shopify Business Competition.  Here is an excerpt.The business competition — Build a Business — started taking entries in January, and is open to any new, Shopify-enabled Web store based (in participating states) in the United States. The Shopify subs READ MORE

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Nortel pensioners get vow of help from Ontario minister

By: bob 20 hours ago Source: Ottawa Citizen from http://www.ottawacitizen.com

Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said Sunday the province will make sure at least part of the pension benefits of Nortel Networks pensioners are protected if their pension plan disappears in the collapse of the company. READ MORE

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Ontario to Rescue Nortel Pensioners

By: OttWatch 1 day 10 hours ago Source: All About Nortel from http://www.allaboutnortel.com

Not sure whether this move was motivated by the fact it’s the right thing or that it’s an election year but the Ontario government said today that it will pay into the Pension Benefits Guarantee Fund so that pensioners will receive up to $1,000 per month.According to Canadian Press, Nortel’s pension plan is about 30% [...] READ MORE

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Rogers Ventures Teleforum Reminder: Please Confirm your Participation: part of our series on new sources of funding for mobility technologies

By: OttWatch 1 day 17 hours ago Source: Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance from http://www.cata.ca

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Startup BootCamp – Awesome Opportunity – Deadline Approaching!

By: OttWatch 2 days ago Source: Startup Ottawa from http://www.startupottawa.com

Courtesy of Impact, I just found out about an awesome opportunity for any budding startup with a student team member:“The VeloCity Entrepreneur BootCamp is looking to provide teams of students interested in building technology-based companies with $3000 of funding per founder, free office space, free living space, as well as a network of sup READ MORE

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Starting Your Startup Series – Part II is on Tuesday!

By: OttWatch 2 days ago Source: Startup Ottawa from http://www.startupottawa.com

Luke Clare from Gowlings just pointed out that their second “Starting Your Startup” event is fast approaching and it seems that they have an awesome panel lined up:Preparing A Business Plan To Raise CapitalTuesday February 9th, 2010 – 5:30pm – 7:30pm160 Elgin St., 26th Floor“In Part 1 of the seminar series on business READ MORE

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Enablence raises $28.75M

By: OttWatch 3 days ago Source: Ottawa Business Journal-Technology News from http://www.obj.ca

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Zarlink and Freescale team up to launch plug-and-play network timing tool

By: OttWatch 3 days ago Source: Ottawa Business Journal-Technology News from http://www.obj.ca

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Preserving ancient Greece in 3D

By: OttWatch 3 days ago Source: National Research Council Canada - News Releases from http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

2010/02/05, Ottawa, Ontario - A laser scanning technology developed for industry use is helping to preserve a Greek cultural treasure. READ MORE

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Toronto Entrepreneurial Bootcamp: Register today, limited space

By: OttWatch 3 days ago Source: Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance from http://www.cata.ca

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Falling sales lead to six-month loss at Mitel Networks

By: bob 3 days ago Source: Ottawa Citizen from http://www.ottawacitizen.com

Mitel Networks said Thursday that it lost money in the first six months of the fiscal year as sales tumbled 19 per cent.

The Kanata-based company disclosed the financial results in a U.S. regulatory filing as it works toward an initial public offering of $230 million U.S. in stock. If it is successful in winning investor backing, it will be the READ MORE

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Enablence raises $28.75M in offering

By: bob 3 days ago Source: Ottawa Citizen from http://www.ottawacitizen.com

Enablence Technologies has raised $28.75 million to finance operations of the Ottawa optical networking company. It said brokers sold 71.9 million common shares at 40 cents per share, an offering which dilutes the share base by 28 per cent. The company said it will READ MORE

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