This blog post was written by Howie Chan, Business Analyst at TechAlliance. It dawned on me the other day that “the Googz” (Google – as we call it in the office and not to be confused with Mr. Googz) now touches almost every line of business I can imagine. From the popular search engine to…
This guest blog was written by Dane Svenson, Mitacs Communications Coordinator. Innovation is the key to business success and staying ahead of competitors. But many businesses struggle to find the innovative thinkers they need to enhance their existing processes, products and technologies. Mitacs is a national, not-for-profit organization that connects businesses with academia for research…
This blog post was written by Deniz Temelli, Business Analyst for TechAlliance. Over the past few months we have had an influx of Advisory Services clients in the life science and biotech space. Although this is a very broad industry with multiple sub industries, one common issue is distribution – how to get your product…
This post was written by Howie Chan, Business Analyst at TechAlliance Late last month, with the launch of the touchscreen Z10, BlackBerry mounted its last stand against giants like Apple and Samsung in the smartphone market. And with the Q10, a keyboard version, launching in April, will BlackBerry be relevant to today’s increasingly demanding user?…
This post was written by Alec Miller, Manager, Measured Innovation at TechAlliance About a year ago, the Federal and Ontario Governments, in conjunction with IBM and a consortium of seven Ontario universities, pledged $210 million to a new platform for High Performance and Cloud Computing. Dubbed the Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (aka SOSCIP),…
This guest blog is the fifth in a five-part series written by David Canton of Harrison Pensa LLP. This last of 5 articles on the Anti-Spam Act will set out some of the questions and challenges going forward. As I said in the first article, if you think the Act won’t affect you because you…
This guest blog is the fourth in a five-part series written by David Canton of Harrison Pensa LLP. Today’s’ article talks about what we can start doing now to be ready when the Act comes into effect. This is the forth of a series of 5 articles that will introduce the Act, describe what spam…
This guest blog is the third in a five-part series written by David Canton of Harrison Pensa LLP. This article talks about things in the Anti-Spam Act that are not directly related to spam. This is the third of a series of 5 articles that will introduce the Act, describe what spam is and is…
This guest blog is the second in a five-part series written by David Canton of Harrison Pensa LLP. This article talks about what the Anti-Spam Act defines as spam, the myriad of exceptions, and what needs to be tracked to prove compliance. This will be presented by way of the thought process to be followed…
This post was written by Deniz Temelli, Business Analyst at TechAlliance In a previous blog post, I looked into the differences between the life science and digital media industries, including development timelines, level of investment capital needed and infrastructure requirements. One area that brings these two together and removes many of the differences is medical…