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Blackberry Innovation Forum 2012

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BlackBerry Innovation ForumWhile there are a growing number of mobile device platforms for business, BlackBerry remains one of the strongest players in the Canadian market. If you are looking to find out what is new for business from BlackBerry, check out the BlackBerry Innovation Forum, a free, one-day session covering the top trends in enterprise mobility, mobile device management, and exciting new features on BlackBerry tablets and smartphones.

Why should you attend?

Sessions at the BlackBerry Innovation Forum will feature ways to leverage BlackBerry mobile applications, insights and best practices to effectively manage mobility within your business. You’ll also get an in-depth look at the new features of the Blackberry PlayBook – including built-in email, calendar, and documents on-the-go.

As well, you can catch a Rogers presentation on the benefits of wireless solutions for mobile workers, including fleet optimization, mobile forms and Wi-Fi calling. Learn about mobile business applications and machine-to-machine solutions for the Blackberry platform and how they can help your business grow through new revenue streams, enhanced productivity and better customer service.

Blackberry Innovation Forum is coming to a city near you:

Visit http://www.blackberryinnovation.com/ca/ to register for any of the following dates:

March 6th  – Toronto (Event Full)
March 6th – Vancouver
March 7th – Ottawa
March 8th – Edmonton
March 8th – Halifax
March 9th – Calgary
March 19th – Montreal
March 20th – Toronto

Which BlackBerry mobile applications for business are you using?

Lauren is a regular contributor to Redboard Biz 

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2011 year in review: top 5 posts

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Rogers RedBoard Biz year in reviewFor small businesses, the end of the year is the perfect time to do your business planning for the year ahead. From getting your financial books in order to setting business goals, the end of the year is a great time for planning for what’s next.

It’s also a great time to reflect on the accomplishments of the past year, which is what we’re doing here at RedBoard Biz. We’ve had a great year covering news and information to help power your business so to end the year, here is a recap our top 5 posts of 2011.

  1. LTE now live in Ottawa: On July 7, we announced the launch of Rogers LTE network in Ottawa. For small businesses, this launch meant a better experience with CRM tools, real-time video conferencing and multimedia communications. To help show the business benefits of LTE, we did a series of videos with Rogers Reade Barber and looked at things like online collaboration, LTE devices and a Remote Worker Healthcare application over LTE. In September, we rolled out LTE to Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
  2. Can WiFi Calling work for your business?: In March, we announced WiFi Calling for businesses. This service allows you to make calls by connecting to an office, home or public WiFi network and move seamlessly to the Rogers wireless network when WiFi is no longer available. The great thing about this service is that it can help businesses predict costs, extend coverage and it can also be deployed easily. To help us talk about WiFi Calling for business, we talked to industry analyst Jon Arnold in the first video in our RedBoard Biz video series, which featured 13 videos over the course of the year.
  3. Share your know-how: Small business week contest: Small business week was October 16-22 and to celebrate and acknowledge all the hard-working small business owners out there, we decided to host a three week long contest where RedBoard Biz readers shared their tips, ideas and insights for a chance to win a new BlackBerry smartphone. Your feedback was amazing. So amazing that we took your comments and summarized them into three additional blog posts highlighting some of our favourite responses.
  4. M2M: Machines are talking: You may have heard the term M2M being mentioned at some point this year so in this post, we wanted to take some time to explain Machine-to-machine technology (M2M) and what it means for your business. It turns out this was a topic you were interested in as this was among our top 5 most viewed posts of the year.
  5. RedBoard Biz celebrates 1 year anniversary: To mark the first anniversary of RedBoard Biz, we held a contest and asked you to tell us what you’d like to see on RedBoard Biz in the coming year for a chance to win a new BlackBerry. Your comments and suggestions were truly fantastic. Stay tuned in 2012 to see some of these topics featured on our blog.

On behalf of the team at RedBoard Biz, thank you for being a part of our community. All the best for 2012.

Miranda is a regular contributor to RedBoard Biz

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Rogers Technology Showcase visits Halifax

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This week we are visiting Halifax with the Rogers Technology Showcase – it was great to see so many of you out at the show.

We have had a fantastic time travelling across Canada with over fifty of our partners to show off the latest in technology trends for business. One of those partners is a Montreal-based company called Trellia. As one of IDC Canada’s “Ten Canadian Cloud Companies to Watch”, Trellia focuses on mobile device management to help businesses manage employee’s bringing their own device into work. Check out what Raffi Tchakmakjian, Trellia’s Vice President of Product Management had to say about the growing trend of “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) below.

Our final stop will be London on October 27th. 

As always, the show is free and we’d love to have you join us. To secure your spot, register in advance at www.rogerstechshowcase.com.

Allison Fitton is a regular contributor to RedBoardBiz. 

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Speed up your business: Rogers LTE network now live in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver

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HTC Jetstream LTE tablet from RogersAs a small business, you know that mobility is a key part of your life every day. We’re excited to share that from east to west, a new wireless experience for your business is here.

Major markets in Canada’s three largest provinces now have access to the world’s fastest wireless network technology. Rogers launched its LTE network today in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, joining Ottawa where Rogers launched Canada’s first LTE network back in July.

Now, more than 5.5 million Canadians have access to LTE with Rogers– more than any other wireless company in Canada.

Rogers has already started to introduce its first line up of great LTE devices. If you’re in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Ottawa, you can now purchase the Rogers LTE Rocketstick, which plugs into your laptop and gives you speeds similar to what you currently have through your broadband connection.

On October 18, we kick off what will be the widest selection of devices with a Rogers exclusive HTC Jetstream LTE tablet, the fastest tablet in Canada. This Android 3.1 tablet boasts LTE + Wi-Fi  connectivity, a 10” high resolution touchscreen, 32 GB capacity, and dual-core 1.5GHz processor. Add the HTC Scribe digital pen accessory and you can even sketch, highlight, take notes, or sign documents on your tablet.

Using these devices on Rogers LTE network will make it easier for you to download apps, large PowerPoint files and stream live web conferences to customers and your team with virtually no delay or buffering.

To celebrate the expansion of Canada’s first LTE network, we’ve also introduced a special, limited time offer that provides LTE customers a chance to purchase Rogers largest ever data bucket – 10GB for $52.93 per month.

LTE promises to revolutionize your wireless experience and we’re happy to be the first to bring this new technology to Canadians.

With tablets, smartphones, sticks and hotspots coming in the next few weeks, which LTE device are you most excited about?

Allison Fitton is a regular contributor to RedBoard Biz

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We’re hitting the road with Rogers Technology Showcase

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Last week, we kicked off our national tour of the Rogers Technology Showcase in Ottawa and Toronto. Over two hundred partners,  IT professionals and members of the Rogers Data Alliance joined us to check out the latest in wireless business solutions.

We also showed off new devices, smart phones and tablets from Cisco, Research in Motion and Panasonic.

In Toronto, we had the chance to catch up with Mansell Nelson, vice president of M2M at Rogers to talk about what’s new at this year’s Technology Showcase. Take a look:

We’re heading west this week to start the next leg of our tour. If you are interested to learn more about how wireless and M2M solutions can help your business, please come out and join us. The show is free – to secure your spot, register in advance at www.rogerstechshowcase.com. Here is where we are heading:

Vancouver: Friday September 16th

Vancouver Convention Centre

Calgary: Tuesday September 20th

BMO Centre

Edmonton: Thursday September 22nd

Edmonton Expo Centre

Winnipeg: Wednesday October 5th,

Conventions Centre

Montreal: Thursday October 13th

Centre Mont-Royal

We’ll also be bringing the Technology Showcase to  Halifax on October 19th and in London on October 27th. Locations to be confirmed.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be featuring a series of video interviews with partners demonstrating their M2M solutions at this year’s show so if you can’t be there in person, this is the next best thing. Stay tuned.

Allison Fitton is a regular contributor to RedBoardBiz

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See the latest wireless business solutions under one roof

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Rogers tech showcaseWireless technologies for business continue to evolve so rapidly that it can be daunting to keep up. From mobile workforce solutions that make employees more productive in the field to machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions that enable the flow of data from remote devices to backend systems, there are a dizzying number of options for businesses to consider.

To help you understand wireless technologies and how they could help you achieve your business goals, we created the Rogers Technology Showcase. Coming soon to a city near you, this annual event brings together the top hardware, software and services vendors. Now is your chance to come out and learn first-hand about a wide variety of innovative M2M technologies and play with our latest devices, smartphones and tablets. You can chat with the experts, watch demos of their products, and learn about solutions that are changing the ways that companies in many sectors do business.

Throughout the day, we’ll also offer special breakout sessions that focus on wireless technologies for particular industries. Visit our registration site soon for more information about these sessions.

Confirmed technology partners include Cisco and Research in Motion, among others. Other participating Rogers Data Alliance members include Microhard Systems, Novotech, Cybercat, and SafetyLine. Stay tuned for more updates about participating vendors.

Beginning in Ottawa on September 7, the Technology Showcase will travel to Toronto (Sept 8), Vancouver (Sept 16), Calgary (Sept 20), Edmonton (Sept 22), Winnipeg (Oct 5) and Montreal (Oct 13).

There is no cost to attend, but you do have to register in advance at www.rogerstechshowcase.com.

UPDATE (September 15, 2011, 4:06 pm): We are now bringing the Rogers Technology Showcase to two additional cities in October. We’ll be in Halifax on October 19th and in London on October 27th.

Geoffrey Booth is a regular contributor to RedBoard Biz

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Power your business with LTE

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Rogers LTEWe’re excited to announce that Rogers will launch our Long Term Evolution (LTE) network this year in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver. And it gets better – we also plan to deploy LTE in an additional 21 markets by the end of 2012. What this means is that Rogers business customers will be among the first in the world to experience LTE.

Work better with LTE

LTE is the global gold standard of wireless technology and the future of mobile experience. Rogers LTE will change the way Canadian business customers use their mobile devices by enabling fast speed mobile Internet in any location, on any LTE-enabled device. With LTE, business customers can expect to:

  • Access data-intensive business applications while on the go
  • Download/upload files in mere seconds, even 10 MB PowerPoint presentations
  • Be able to make and receive video calls that are clear and virtually seamless
  • Conduct wireless group video conferences in real-time, with virtually no lag time
  • Support machine to machine data exchange

Learn more at iwantmyLTE.ca

To us, LTE is all about being more connected, that’s why we created IwantmyLTE.ca, a website where you can learn about Rogers LTE network and share your excitement for LTE.  Starting today, you can log on to the site and let us know if your excited to get LTE in your city.

Are you ready for Rogers LTE? If you are, let us know where you would like to experience the future of fast at IwantmyLTE.ca.

Duane MacDonald is a regular contributor to RedBoard Biz

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