Three startups share $1.5 million in provincial funding

THE RECORD

August 17, 2010 By Rose Simone, Record staff

KITCHENER - A television news station broadcasts a report live, from the 10th floor of a building, without a satellite truck parked outside.

Elsewhere in the city, a doctor looks at images of an X-ray taken at the hospital miles away, without any special software on his computer to get those images.

Meanwhile, your computer intelligently finds available information about the…

Waterloo, Ont. - July 15th, 2010 - LoyaltyMatch Inc., the loyalty program computing company, today announced the launch of LoyaltyMatch OnDemand™ Social Loyalty, the industry's first real-time social loyalty platform blending traditional tiered-based loyalty program offerings with social incentives, social interactions and gaming and social word of mouth.

Traditional loyalty programs and location-based applications focus on transactional or tiered processes leading to a discounted offer which…

by Beth Schultz
12.07.2010 kl 04:28 | Network World (US)

Some IT execs dismiss public cloud services as being too insecure to trust with critical or sensitive application workloads and data. But not Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group, an emergency management firm in Lafayette, La.
"Of course there's risk associated with using cloud services - there's risk associated with everything you do, whether you're walking down the street or deploying an e-mail solution out there. You have to weigh…

Bloomberg Businessweek.com

Internet June 17, 2010, 12:01AM EST

Businesses Confront the Cloud Security Threat

As they embrace the cloud, companies remain skittish about entrusting data and computing tasks to outside vendors. Proposed solutions abound

By Arik Hesseldahl

As chief information officer of the 1,800-bed Orlando Health System, Rick Schooler needs to house 180 terabytes of medical images. That's more than three times the print holdings of the Library of Congress. "Within three years we'll be…

PRNewswire - PerspecSys Inc., maker of a cloud data security platform that ensures full control and protection of sensitive data used in the public cloud, wowed a judging panel of veteran Silicon Valley venture capitalists last week on the strength of its go-to-market strategy and unique value proposition.

PerspecSys was one of 40 companies, 15 of them Canadian, presented with an opportunity to make a two-minute "extreme elevator pitch" at Plug and Play Spring EXPO 2010…

With the results of a recent total cost of ownership study on hybrid vehicle adoption, CrossChasm Technologies is featured in OEM Off-Highway Magazine.  Read the article below:

As fleets aggressively drive toward next generation vehicle adoption, CrossChasm Technologies, a leading provider of green consulting services for fleets, released today a total cost of ownership study on hybrid vehicle adoption.  The study provides guidance for fleets on how best to uncover the true long-term cost and…

Sober Steering Sensors has received $1.46 million in federal government funding to develop a new mechanism touted as capable of drastically reducing drunk driving, and creating hundreds jobs.

Dennis Bellehumeur, Founder and CEO of Sober Steering Sensors, has been involved for 20 years in brain injury rehabilitation and who sits on several boards related to alcoholism and traumatic brain injuries, and said it was this work that led him to develop the device, which fits invisibly into a steering…

Charlotte Prong Parkhill, Waterloo Chronicle -

 (May 05, 2010) -

Karos Health celebrated its graduation from the Accelerator Centre last Wednesday. The company, which creates software for use in the field of electronic health systems, is the sixth start-up to graduate from the [Accelerator] centre.

"This is a little like when I moved away from home for the first time, said president Rick Stroobosscher.

During their two years at the Accelerator Centre, they've enjoyed furnished rooms, meals, and…

Waterloo, Ontario (April 28, 2010) - The Accelerator Centre, an award-winning and world-renowned centre for the cultivation of technology entrepreneurship is proud to announce the graduation of Karos Health. Karos marks the fourth company to successfully launch from the AC since September of 2009, and the sixth in the history of the facility.

Karos Health was founded by President Rick Stroobosscher in 2006 and joined the Accelerator Centre as a client in 2008.  The company is an emerging leader…