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Huawei, the telecommunications network solutions for operators, has announced it has become a member of the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI). OCRI is Ottawa's member-based economic development corporation for fostering the advancement of the region's globally competitive knowledge-based institutions and industries. Huawei has enjoyed tremendous success since entering the Canadian market in the spring of 2008.
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Canadian e-commerce is lagging and Google plans to hire more staff to strengthen its business brand in this country, says the new head of Google Canada. "The message is very clear: invest for growth in Canada," Chris O'Neill said in a phone interview from Mountain View, Calif. Google already has 150 employees in Canada at offices in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and the Kitchener-Waterloo region of Ontario. Mr. O’Neill isn't sure yet how many new employees the company will hire but they could be in engineering, sales, marketing and policy.
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Google is expanding its presence in the Waterloo, Ontario, region as it prepares to move into a new office and is planning to hire for positions in product management, user experience, and software engineering. The new location at the Lang Tannery district in downtown Kitchener amounts to two floors of office space. The building, across the street from the University of Waterloo, also aligns with Google’s green initiatives.
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Florida based Accel Networks announced the expansion of its network coverage area across Canada. Through its relationship with TELUS, this expansion gives Accel the broadest fixed cellular broadband network in North America. Accel said it plans to establish a Canadian-based reseller network will make Accel’s services more readily available to all broadband users in the country by the end of 2010. "There's a tremendous need for the fixed wireless broadband services we provide all across Canada," commented Mark Gianinni, CEO of Accel Networks.
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Industry Minister Tony Clement says opening up Canada's telecommunications sector to allow more foreign investment will help companies get access to the money they need and boost competition to the benefit of consumers. Clement's speech comes as Canada's wireless sector begins to see more competition from some smaller players. Current telecom regulations limit direct and indirect foreign investment to 46.7%.
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According to this announcement, the directors of Vanedge Capital now have $100 million to invest in digital media companies. Although its mandate is to seek growth areas wherever they exist, the Vancouver-based venture capital firm will look to Canadian companies for the majority of its investment. "We're really optimistic about Canadian companies," said Paul Lee, Vanedge Capital co-founder and general partner, "When you look at the global pool of talent, Vancouver and Montreal rank very, very highly."
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Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has opened a new research and development centre in Ottawa. The company will focus on a variety of technologies, including wireline, wireless, optical and Internet protocol networking. The operation employs about 70 people, but hopes to increase that number to 250 workers within two years. Huawei was drawn to Ottawa because of the large pool of talent in the capital.
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A professor at Carleton University, Ramachandra Achar, is working on research that will develop faster, more accurate computer-aided design tools. His research is helping to reduce design cycle times, time-to-market and the cost of electronic products. Some of his research analyzes the signal and power integrity of circuits with tens of millions of components that operate at very high frequencies and encompass diverse modules, from optoelectronic devices to electronic packages, radio-frequency circuits and micro-electromechanical systems. Ultimately, his research could lead to rapid innovations in all kinds of systems that are used in daily life, such as computers, cellphones, televisions -- leading to devices with faster data rates, compact designs and multi-functions in a single gadget.
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Mobile Interactive Group (MIG), a global mobile and digital communications business, headquartered in England, is expanding in Canada by opening a new office in Toronto. The move has been driven by growing client demand for the agency’s integrated approach to delivering and implementing multi-channel digital campaigns that pull on the group’s expertise across a broad range of online, mobile, and digital marketing and technology disciplines.
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Wavefront, the community-based commercialization centre for British Columbia's 1,000 wireless and new media development companies, and the Mobile Computing Promotion Consortium (MCPC), the organization dedicated to the promotion and expansion of mobile computing in Japan, announced an agreement to work together to create mutually beneficial opportunities for their members. Wavefront and the MCPC will support each other’s services and act as a bridge between one another’s members for business matching and strategic partnering.
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University of Toronto researchers have developed a microchip to more easily determine the type and severity of a patient’s cancer, which may lead to quicker and more effective treatment. The device can sense the biomarkers that indicate the presence of cancer at the cellular level. Analysis can be completed in 30 minutes.
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The Economist Intelligence Unit's Resilience Amid Turmoil report benchmarked the competitiveness of the IT industry in 66 countries. Canada improved has moved up the list from 6th to 4th. Canada ranked higher than India and most of Europe.
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California-based Infinera has added to its optical networking research and development team with the opening of a new design centre in Ottawa. The Canadian capital city has been a longtime center for optical networking development, and Infinera's new design center will the deep pool of experience and expertise available there.
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Illinois-based Virtual-Agent Services (VAS) is opening a new call centre in Central Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, that will employ up to 50 people. VAS is an in-bound contact centre providing services for the telecommunications, tourism and accommodation sectors. The company said it was attracted by the quality of the people in the location and feeling that it could work as partners with the community.
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Business magazine Fortune has named Canada's Research in Motion the world's fastest-growing company. RIM has more than quadrupled its workforce in the last four years to about 12,000 people and seen its profits and revenues soar as the company has expanded sales of its BlackBerry devices beyond the corporate world to the consumer market. In its latest quarterly report, Research In Motion reported that its quarterly profit was $643 million.
