Silicon Alley Insider has a interesting post entitled “Does New York City Need More VCs?.” In it they compared the venture capital situation in New York and in Silicon Valley. New York appears to have much fewer and less visible VC investors in the technology markets. In addition the article laments that the venture capital [...]
Today, the Canadian federal government (have they finally dropped the ridiculous “new government” moniker?) introduced their annual budget for fiscal 2008-2009 (April 1, 2008 – March 31, 2009).
Among the major highlights:
Tax free savings account which allows individuals to invest up to $5000 per year (with carry forward of unused room) and receive tax free growth [...]
Vulnurability of the East Coast
In one of my earlier posts, I pointed out the often overlooked fact that although Canada is a huge exporter of oil, it also imports a very large amount of crude from overseas as well. In fact all of Eastern Canada relies in imported crude oil for heating oil, diesel, [...]
The 20th annual East Coast Music Awards and Conference are being held in Fredericton, New Brunswick from the 7th to the 10th of February. This is the first time that Fredericton hosts the awards festival and only the third time in its twenty year history that the show will be in New Brunswick (Moncton [...]
meshEAST is a new blog about Atlantic Canadian startup companies in the IT and the interactive media sector by Lisa Rousseau.
It really is great to hear stories of local companies and their ups and downs. It is much more relevant reading than TechCrunch and all of the other Silicon Valley/US centric IT media sites. [...]
As detailed on CNet, the Nokia N810 firmware has been leaked and people have been trying it out on the N800.
Some of the major features of the new OS:
Upgrade the processor speed from 320 MHz to 400 MHz
Now uses Mozilla browser instead of Opera
Improved Flash (and hence YouTube)
Linux kernel upgraded from 2.6.18 to 2.6.21
New mapping [...]
Although no longer classified as a hurricane but a post-tropical storm, Noel is headed for the Maritimes and headed my way.
It has been raining since 5 o’clock and the wind has really picked since 7 o’clock. The forecast is calling for up to 100 mm of rain and winds up to 120 km/h which [...]
After waxing about Canadian apple juice not really being Canadian, I was quite pleased to see CBC’s Marketplace tonight discussing the same issue on a larger scale. The program examined some food products which are labeled as “Product of Canada” and attempts to trace where the main ingredients actually come from. The [...]
