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November 7, 2013 by thestevehof

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Hello People of Tectoria!

Your friends at VIATeC have decided to start sharing all of the great stories that Tectoria has to offer. Whether you’re a startup entrepreneur, an Accelerator program mentor, a college student with a grand idea, a teacher with an inspirational tale, or simply a Victoria resident who’s been positively influenced by our number 1 sector, LET US KNOW!!!!

How do you let us know? Great question.  In a perfect world you’d type up a 150 – 650 word article, attach it and a few pictures to an email and send it to us.  From time to time, however, we will have time to interview people and write the articles for them.   Did I emphasize ‘from time to time’ enough?  But seriously folks, we want to promote you, your business, and how you fit into the Tectoria story.  YOU, however, have to take the first step.

So, if you’d like some free PR, please send your stories and pics to me, Steve Hof, at steve@pikomarketing.com.  PIKO does a lot of marketing work for VIATeC and our offices are actually here in VIATeC’s Accelerator Building at 2659 Douglas St.  So next time you’re in the neighbourhood, feel free to come introduce yourself and ask us any further questions you may have.

Cheers!  Now let the storytelling begin!

by Steve Hof

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: community, Company profile, Interview, marketing, News, pr, profiles, publicity, Social media, Start-up, startup, startup entrepreneur, tectoria, Viatec, VIATeC, viatic

Royal Roads launches online archive for yearbooks

August 12, 2013 by richardd

Royal Roads is the other university in Victoria. UVic, with all its PR people, churns out story after story so it’s good to hear something from Royal Roads, which has launched an online archive of its yearbooks.

The yearbooks date back to the school’s early days as a military college. The digitization project was funded by a grant from the BC History Digitization Program and will interest history buffs as well as former students. I enjoyed flicking through the pages of several issues from the 1950s.

The yearbook is called The Log and the online archive provides access to every yearbook from 1943 until the college became a university in 1995. Around 7,000 pages were scanned and uploaded, so it was a considerable task.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: college, history, News, royal roads, university

Victoria’s techology sector celebrates with annual awards

June 28, 2013 by richardd

Dann Gunn at the awardsVictoria’s tech sector celebrated its great, its good, and old faces and new ones earlier this month at the annual VIATeC Awards. More than 700 folks were in attendance at the sold-out show to see Quester Tangent named as Technology Company of the Year.

VIATeC’s Dan Gunn told the Times-Colonist:

“Quester Tangent is one of those really great stories for Victoria — a company working in a certain area that through strong management and strategy managed to double their organization in a short period of time and find a real niche for themselves. It’s also a great story to see a three-decade-old company have a strong surge 25 years in. That’s a good example to all established companies of what is possible.”

Quester Tangent is an electronics manufacturing firm with a pedigree of almost 30 years in the market. It began by developing ocean mapping gear and now creates monitoring units to provide detailed diagnostic data for rail systems.

Colin Lennox Award for Technology Champion – Clayton Stark
VIATeC Member of the Year – Race Rocks 3D Inc.  
Emerging Technology Company of the Year – Tutela Technologies
Team of the Year – Vancouver Island Health Authority  IMIT PDM
Employer of the Year – Edoc Systems Group Ltd.
Executive of the Year – Stuart Bowness, MediaCore
Innovative Excellence – 3DA Systems Inc.
Online Strategy of the Year – Tap for Tap
Product of the Year – Latitude Technologies, IONode Flight Data Monitoring Device
Tech Company of the Year – Quester Tangent 
Education Champion – Dave Shortreed

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: awards, Event, News, Viatec, viatic, Victoria

Finalists announced for 2013 VIATeC Awards

May 10, 2013 by richardd

The finalists for the 12th annual VIATeC awards have been announced with 38 companies and individuals listed in nine categories. A gala event is scheduled for June 20 at the Victoria Conference Centre.

Clayton Stark, who opened a gaming studio called Kixeye, will receive the Colin Lennox Award for Technology Champion, while the VIATeC Member of the Year award will be RaceRocks 3D. Lots of fantastic companies listed below.

Technology Company of the Year

FTS – Forest Technology Systems
Quester Tangent
RevenueWire
Unit4 Business Software

Emerging Technology Company of the Year

MediaCore
Race Rocks 3D Inc.
Red Brick Media
Tutela Technologies

Executive of the Year

Nadine Harrison – HP Advanced Solutions
Stuart Bowness – MediaCore
Andrew Wilkinson – MetaLab

Innovative Excellence

3DA Systems Inc.
Applied Brain and Vision Sciences
Holografyx Canada Inc
Race Rocks 3D Inc.
Procura

Online Strategy of the Year

Atomic Crayon
Caorda Web Solutions
Tap for Tap

Product of the Year

Heartcheck PEN Handheld ECG Device from Cardiocomm Solutions
IONode Flight Data Monitoring Device from Latitude Technologies Corporation
Learning Content Management System from Udutu

Team of the Year

FCV Interactive
ParetoLogic
RewardsDen
UNIT4 Business Software
Vancouver Island Health Authority – IMIT

Employer of the Year

CloverPoint
Edoc
itgroove Professional Services Ltd.
Prototype Equipment Design
Red Brick Media

Start-up of the Year

A.O.E. Accumulated Ocean Energy Inc.
Go2Mobi
Rewards Den
CrowdContent
SendWithUs

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: awardsm Victoria, Event, gala, News, technology, Viatec

SendtoNews signs NASCAR highlights deal

April 26, 2013 by richardd

Sendtonews screenshotThe Times-Colonist reports on Victoria-based SendtoNews. The three-year-old company has announced a deal with NASCAR for the exclusive rights to distribute online video highlights of races.

“It sets a new standard,” said CEO Greg Bobolo. “It really is that validation and it has accelerated all of our other discussions. “NASCAR was brutally invasive to make sure we were the right company. Now with everyone else we are talking to on that tier-one sports landscape, there is a confidence level. They think ‘if NASCAR is OK with them …’”

SendtoNews is a cloud-based distribution platform that connects content from major organizations with the media. The report adds the company is housed in a new downtown office and has “22 employees, 15 of them in Victoria. The rest are in bureaus in Vancouver, San Francisco, New York and Toronto and later this summer they will open a London office.”

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: News

No.1 for page load speed

April 19, 2013 by richardd

If you are operating a website that depends on heavy internet traffic, then the speed your pages load are pretty important. Keynote recently conducted research into page load speed at 47 online retailers. Guess what? A Victoria-based technology company was ranked No.1.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bc, ecommerce, News, online retailer, Software, Victoria

More telescope news: Andromeda & beyond

January 10, 2013 by richardd

It must be me but it seems that UVic issues a story each month about some telescope or other. The latest story concerns two astrophysicists at the university, who have been analysing how a cluster of ‘dwarf’ galaxies are rotating around a neighbouring galaxy called Andromeda. Galaxies are not supposed to orbit things like planets and moons so this is a key discovery. Scientists using the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope in Hawaii collaborated on the project.

Lots of details on the project can be found here. There is also a little video, with some Mendelssohn thrown in, showing what they have seen through the big telescope in Hawaii.

Filed Under: UVic Tagged With: News, UVic

Tech community rallies for Food Bank Challenge

December 11, 2012 by richardd

It was great to hear Victoria’s tech community being acclaimed on CBC radio this morning. On The Island interviewed VIATeC’s Dan Gunn about how the association’s members raised more than $80,000 for the Mustard Seed Food Bank.

Since its creation 10 years ago, the ‘Food Bank Challenge’ has raised $1.5 million for  Mustard Seed and more than 35 companies were involved this year.

The most chilling fundraising venture had to be the ‘Harbour Hop’ – the simple but brave act of jumping into the harbour downtown in late November – which was led by the folks from Contech.

Filed Under: Victoria Tagged With: News, Viatec, Victoria

UVic team helps smash data transfer record

November 27, 2012 by richardd

During the SuperComputing 2012 (SC12) conference earlier this month, an international team of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers from the University of Victoria, the California Institute for Technology, the University of Michigan and Vanderbilt’s Brookhaven National Lab broke their own record for data transfer using the latest generation of wide area network circuits. Apparently, this is just the start, according to this report, 1,000 Mbps speeds will be possible in the next 12 months.

Overall, the transfer rate achieved by the team hit 339 Mbps. For the sake of comparison, a 3G cellphone can usually achieve data transfer rates of around 18 Mbps while brand new super-exciting 4G cellphones can hit 30-35 Mbps in real-world scenarios.

Filed Under: UVic Tagged With: News, UVic

Web development firms Caorda and Sage to merge

November 17, 2012 by richardd

Two of Victoria’s web development firms have announced they will merge. Caorda Web Solutions is getting together with Sage Internet Solutions to create an organisation of more than 800 clients and 17 staff members.

The services offered now include web design and strategy, software development for web, mobile and Windows platforms, and hosting.

In the new organization, services for small business web design, ecommerce, online marketing and social media will be delivered under the division, Sage Web Strategy + Design, while Caorda Web Solutions will focus on application development and hosting solutions.

The good news is zero job losses and the combined team will be located at Suite 100-3550 Saanich Road.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: News, Software

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