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April 23, 2019
Burgeoning and Evolving Wireless Spectrum Needs Evolving Protection The rise of wireless and mobile technologies has transformed the way we communicate and work. Within the next 3 years experts predict there will be over 29 billion connected devices. Much of this is enabled by the wireless spectrum and the technologies that exploit this spectrum. Billions…
March 27, 2019
L-SPARK, Canada’s leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) accelerator, and TELUS have partnered to launch the Secure IoT Accelerator program in collaboration with BlackBerry Limited and Solace The Secure IoT Accelerator program is intended to enable Canadian Internet of Things (IoT) ventures by providing them with global market reach capability with a Secure by Design technology. With the…
February 27, 2019
Tutela collects data from millions of devices worldwide to power business decisions As seen at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, mobile smart phone usage continues to grow at incredible speed. But at what rate? A recent report predicts that “mobile Internet traffic will reach nearly a Zettabyte of data annually by 2022”. That…
December 12, 2018
Seven companies have been chosen as the initial class of a new accelerator program set up by BlackBerry and L-SPARK, Canada’s leading software-as-a-service accelerator, with the goal of growing the next great, global technology company. Applications were received from across Canada with senior representatives from BlackBerry and L-SPARK ultimately narrowing down the highly competitive field…
October 25, 2018
The State of Data Privacy Today The state of data privacy is evolving globally, with the major regulatory policy revamp called the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) now implemented in Europe. This is the strongest data privacy protection law to date, and is seen by many as the Gold Standard in terms of the individual…
October 25, 2018
Portfolio company Tutela, the crowdsourced mobile data leader, announced new partnerships with two mobile network operators during the Quarter. The company extended their relationship with Telefonica in Europe, and signed an agreement with Freedom Mobile in Canada. Both operators have successfully trialed the comprehensive data set and real world insights the Tutela technology provides, and…
October 15, 2018
Wesley Clover backed initiative uses unique partnership model to build international ecosystem. The Alacrity Global Initiative continues to expand its portfolio of tech startups and venture capital funds around the world, with recent additions in Mexico City and Pune, India. The Alacrity Global Initiative was developed around five years ago by local company Wesley Clover,…
May 31, 2018
In celebration of #NationalAutonomousVehicleDay, the Kanata North Business Association has established a first of its kind resource that will capture a comprehensive listing of the growing number of contributors to the AV ecosystem across the country. This will include innovators, companies, post-secondary institutions, and other organizations with AV technologies, solutions, and knowhow. The launch of the…
May 28, 2018
By Pratteek Bathula, Product Director at Hut Six What is GDPR? Everyone’s favourite acronym. If you are a business owner, work in IT or handle customer or employee data, these four letters present a massive shake-up to data protection laws that you need to be aware of or risk unprecedented fines. The General Data Protection…
March 28, 2018
The messages you try to communicate with emails can only be effective so long as the emails are actually getting opened in the first place. Below are two tips to increase open rates and email responses: 1. Resend the same email to everyone who didn’t open it For your next group email, try this trick…
