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Miovision a Canadian tech exporting success story

“Congestion, traffic, it’s a global problem….”

Tony+Brijpaul+-+Miovision+2“…It’s not specific to North America or Europe or any particular country or city,” says Kitchener, Ont.-based Miovision Technologies Inc.’s chief operating officer Tony Brijpaul. “When we started Miovision, we always knew we would become an export-focused business.”

Founded in 2005, Miovision was conceived by Mr. Brijpaul and co-founders Kurtis McBride and Kevin Madill after Mr. McBride had spent summers as a University of Waterloo student at a job sitting on a lawn chair, holding a clipboard and counting cars.

While it was a cushy summer job, it was a crude way to gather data for smart cities of the future, says Mr. McBride: “[It’s] a manual and time-intensive process, not to mention frequently inaccurate. Cities would make road construction decisions with 30-year implications based on potentially bad data.”

A decade later, Miovision has about 600 customers in about 50 countries, with a sales satellite office in Cologne, Germany. “We’re in every continent except Antarctica,” Mr. Brijpaul says.

Read the full article in the Globe and Mail.

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The intellijoint HIP is now available across Canada

Intellijoint Surgical Inc., a privately held Canadian medical technology company committed to developing low-cost, miniaturized surgical smart tools, announced today the commercial launch of its flagship product, intellijoint HIP™, for use by orthopaedic surgeons across Canada.

intellijoint HIP is simple, easy to use and provides surgeons with vital intra-operative measurements enabling proper cup position, equalization of leg length and restoration of hip offset. These critical measurements can assist in the prevention of recurrent instability, hip dislocation and leg length discrepancy. intellijoint HIP benefits from the company’s proprietary core technology, a miniaturized surgical grade tracking system placed in the sterile field.

“intellijoint HIP is a revolutionary smart tool that will make a significant impact on patient outcomes in hip replacement surgery and health care system costs worldwide,” said Armen Bakirtzian, Co-Founder and CEO of Intellijoint Surgical. “Use of our device will reduce costly readmissions and unnecessary revision surgeries while improving clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. We are extremely excited for this milestone and the next steps in our company’s growth.”

The company has successfully conducted a limited launch of intellijoint HIP with 200+ live surgeries in the U.S. and Canada performed by select key opinion leading orthopaedic surgeons. The commercial launch will commence in Ontario, and expand to the rest of the country.

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Magnet Forensics wins two forensic 4Cast Awards

Magnet IEF was named Computer Forensic Software of the Year, and Phone Forensic Software of the Year at the 2015 Forensic 4cast Awards. The awards were presented last night at the SANS DFIR Summit in Austin, TX.

This is the third consecutive year that Magnet IEF has taken home the award for Computer Forensic Software of the Year. As we continue to further develop our software and expand our mobile capabilities, we are also thrilled to be named Phone Forensic Software of the Year, for the first time ever.

Congratulations Magnet Forensics!

Read the full press release here.

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Six Career Lessons from AC Grad Axonify

Carol Leaman, president and CEO of Axonify, recently shared some of the key lessons she’s learned throughout her career as a serial entrepreneur as part of Entrepreneurship 101’s Lived It Lecture series.

Here are the key takeaways from Carol’s talk.

1. You can’t force the market to expand. When she worked in the virtual reality space, Carol learned that you cannot force the market to expand. This realization led her to partner with her main competitor in order to squeeze out the rest of the competition.

2. As a CEO, never stay with a company that acquires yours. Culture is important and it’s something that Carol lives and breathes. She stayed on after her previous company was acquired, but quickly realized that she and the new CEO had very different ways of thinking.

3. Never give up a chance to network. You never know who you will run into or who they might know.

4. Think through what could go wrong. If you start a company with friends or family members, be sure to consider what could possibly go wrong. If you don’t have the right group together and something goes amiss, relationship issues may get in the way of fixing problems.

5. Don’t delay finding paying customers. The sooner you can make a dollar—or more!—the better off your company will be, even if it’s not “perfect.”

6. Be willing to shift. Move your company in the right direction by paying attention to what is happening in the market. You need to be willing to shift if something isn’t working out.

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AC Grad Kik introduces in-chat browser

Facebook has developed an app platform for Messenger, but underdog rival Kik has continued its focus on putting the entire web in chat after upgrading its in-app sidebar browser into a full-blown browser for its messaging app.

The change means that Kik users can now summon a full browser inside their chats with friends. Previously the browser was limited, since it was loaded from the sidebar as part of the chat window. This change translates to a more immersive experience, which lets Kik’s 200 million registered users surf the web while talking to friends; for instance I could listen to Soundcloud while chatting. It also gives them the option to easily share web pages and services in chats.

To read the full article, click here.

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AC Grad Magnet Forensics nominated for the 2015 4cast Awards

Magnet Forensics recently announced that Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) has been nominated again, in two categories, for the 2015 Forensic Forecast Awards: Phone Forensic Software of the Year, and Computer Forensic Software of the Year.

Last year, Magnet Forensics took home the award for Computer Forensic Software of the Year for the second year in a row. With our expanding efforts in mobile forensics, they hope to not only defend our title in the Computer Forensics category, but also shake things up in Phone Forensics.

To cast your vote, click here!

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AC Grad TitanFile announces extended partnership with Hitachi Solutions America

TitanFile Inc., a private correspondence and file sharing platform for legal professionals and other businesses, today announced that the company will be showcasing its new integration with Credeon Cloud Data Protection browser technology, a product of Hitachi Solutions America, Ltd., at ABA TECHSHOW 2015 at booth #714, making it the first, and only, offering of its kind to the legal market.

Credeon prevents unauthorized parties from accessing confidential data. Credeon’s solid security features, such as client-side encryption and remote encryption key management, enable users to encrypt and store data on their own terms.

The latest integration between TitanFile and Credeon leverages the newest technological advances in browser technology. It brings the features and capabilities of Credeon to the TitanFile application within the browser, without requiring the user to download and install any software or plugins. The new implementation is an industry first and based on the HTML5 Web Cryptography API standard currently being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

To read the full press release, click here.

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NBC News Partners with AC Grad Kik

NBC News has launched an official account on Kik, a mobile-first chat network with more than 200 million users.

The news division’s account will allow Kik users to find and share real-time news content tailored to topics of their choice.

Users can search for and send a message to the username ‘NBCNews.’ After sending a keyword such as ‘politics’ or ‘technology,’ they will receive story and video content from the news site.

NBC News will also be able to push messages to Kik users, including popular videos or breaking news items.

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AC Grad Perspecsys announces expansion into Germany

Perspecsys, the leader in enterprise cloud data protection solutions, today announced it has extended its presence in Europe to Germany. The move will enable it to meet the rapid growth it is experiencing in the region.

“Since their emergence in 2012, Cloud Access Security Broker solutions have grown in importance and today are the primary technical means of giving more control over SaaS security. This technology will become an essential component of SaaS deployments by 2017.”

Perspecsys’ AppProtex Cloud Data Protection Platform is currently used by some of Germany’s largest enterprises to maintain compliance with data privacy and security requirements as they adopt the cloud. In industries as diverse as manufacturing, banking, investments, and healthcare, Perspecsys’ unique solution, which ensures that sensitive data never leaves the corporation’s control at any time, has enabled enterprises to use the cloud in new and powerful ways.

To read the full press release, click here.