TELUS has announced the company has been inducted into the Canada's 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures Hall of Fame for 2012 under the Enterprise category, as part of Waterstone Human Capital's annual national program, now in its ninth year. “We are deeply honoured by this recognition from Waterstone Human Capital as it is a great...
The Institute of Communication Agencies (ICA) and Ipsos Reid have released the results of their Most Influential Brands Study for Canada for 2012 at the ICA's fifth annual FFWD Advertising and Marketing Week. The top brand this year was Google, followed by Microsoft, then Apple in third spot. Below is a list of the top 10...
Rdio has announced today its plans to offer Canadians free music streaming for up to six months for new users, with no credit card required for the trial. Users will be able to access their library of over 18 million songs without ads to stream over the web. If you work from your Mac or...
The Expedia Hotels & Flights app received a minor update the other day to allow flight booking in Canada. The app brings some exclusive hotel deals and if you're already signed in you can book a flight in 'under 30 seconds' according to Expedia. The final check page has a clever 'slide to purchase' which...
Amazon has announced the Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite is now officially available in Canada, both on Amazon.ca and in over 1000 select retail stores such as Staples, The Source and Shoppers Drug Mart. The launch comes just after Amazon quietly launched the Kindle eBook store in Canada last December. The following models are now available...
Audi Canada along with ad agency Zulu Alpha Kilo created a documentary detailing the company's project of creating a pretty cool slot car race track, as part of a marketing program known as the Audi quattro Experience. The coolest part? The scaled down model cars had cameras mounted inside to provide a point of view racing...
Amazon continues to expand its services to Canada. Back in December the company launched their Amazon Kindle Store here and today they have announced the launch of Amazon Prime for $79 per year. Customers part of Amazon Prime will receive unlimited two day shipping all year round (with no minimum purchase order), and is great...
AllThingsD reports the latest update today to Facebook Messenger for iOS will introduce voice messages within the app, allowing users to send voice clips to friends, up to one minute long. What makes this update extra special is Facebook will be testing VOIP calls in this update, exclusively in Canada (yays): Also particularly noteworthy: In...
Patently Apple reports Apple has filed for the 'iPod touch loop' trademark with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office on December 10th, 2012. Apple's original trademark filing for this term took place in Jamaica in September, when the new iPod touch was first launched. Apple filed their trademark in Toronto, Canada under "wares" which specifically covers...
Amazon has quietly launched the Kindle Store in Canada over the weekend. First spotted by the Digital Reader last Friday, Amazon's landing page revealed the debut of the Kindle Store to allow Canadians to purchase ebooks with their local account, instead of going through a US portal. For Canadian iOS users, this means it will...
Before you commit to that big iPhone upgrade, you may want to consider what happens when you're withered, old, and gray. Or so says Scott Hannah, the executive director of Credit Counselling Society, a Vancouver-based firm. He is asking Canadians the question: are we spending too much of our income on technology? Spending that is...
Netflix has announced they have signed a deal with Disney to show their content to the customers starting in 2013 with direct-to-video new releases, and later 2016 with feature films from a variety of studios: Beginning with its 2016 theatrically released feature films, new Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios and...
