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		<title>Centralize your files with a network drive</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2013/02/centralize-your-files-with-a-network-drive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me the other day that the only reason we have a desktop computer at home is to hold digital photographs and music. With all members of the household owning laptops, this old, slow machine was taking up too much valuable real estate and something had to be done about it.
Still, I liked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMU Graduate Program Designed to Help Entrepreneurial Students Capitalize on Mega-Projects</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2013/01/smu-graduate-program-designed-to-help-entrepreneurial-students-capitalize-on-mega-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a technologist and an innovator, and you think you have an entrepreneurial bent, then do I have the training program for you!
It is at Saint Mary’s University, and it is called the Master of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MTEI) program. I know I could have used it when I was starting out, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rogers Shows Leadership in &#8220;the Internet of Things&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2013/01/rogers-shows-leadership-in-the-internet-of-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Communications]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There’s nothing quite as Canadian as street hockey.
While the NHL was locked out and the world juniors were playing in the middle of the night, I had been relegated to watching a lot of curling and the fireplace channel on TV. But that all changed with our annual west-end street hockey tournament in Halifax at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Seems Digital, But we Still Live in an Analog World</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2012/12/it-seems-digital-but-we-still-live-in-an-analog-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I had lunch downtown with my brother Nil. We got caught up on all the usual guy stuff – football, hunting, stock car racing, and analog versus digital.
Nil told me he is an analog man, and my jaw dropped. How could a modern man actually prefer analog over digital? I’ve been thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Daddies Telethon a Huge Success</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2012/12/christmas-daddies-telethon-a-huge-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christmas Daddies telethon was on TV yesterday. Nicom is a major sponsor in that we provide the Christmas Daddies web site and online donation facility.
This year was particularly challenging in that we have a new payment gateway company, plus the back-end application that we have to feed into (for receipts, on-screen displays, etc.) was completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicom Finalist in CME/NRC Technology Awards</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2012/11/nicom-finalist-in-cmenrc-technology-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although not the grand prize winner, Nicom was a finalist in an awards competition for “developing and implementing innovative new technologies”. The award is being presented by the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters association and the National Research Council.
This award was based on our Container Dwell Time Management System which, for the Halifax Port Authority, provided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press Release &#8211; Nicom Certified to Handle Controlled Goods</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2012/11/nicom-certified-to-handle-controlled-goods/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2012/11/nicom-certified-to-handle-controlled-goods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halifax, November 19, 2012 - Nicom IT Solutions of Halifax is now certified to handle military-related goods and technology in accordance with the federal government’s Controlled Goods Program.
That means that Nicom can now be exposed to sensitive data in the course of its work, including drawings, parts lists and assembly instructions that contain sufficient information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Passing of a Remarkable Man</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2012/11/the-passing-of-a-remarkable-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Written by David Nicholson, Nov 5, 2012) 
It is with great sadness that I must relay to you the news that yesterday we lost our dear friend David Miller. 
David was truly an incredible person.  He was a quiet, gentle man with the gift of being able to make anyone he met comfortable.  Even when facing death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Tablet Could Be Only Machine You Will Need</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2012/10/microsoft-tablet-could-be-only-machine-you-will-need/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2012/10/microsoft-tablet-could-be-only-machine-you-will-need/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surface]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Windows 8]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a four-month drum roll, Microsoft is releasing the first of its tablets – a new family of devices called “Surface”, and we’ve got one on order.
Microsoft is betting the farm on its success. Before I explain why, let me say that this initial release is not the extended version, the “Surface for Windows 8 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Megamation Got an Early Read on How to Navigate the Cloud</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2012/10/megamation-got-an-early-read-on-how-to-navigate-the-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While many organizations are still trying to decide what to do about Cloud Computing, Megamation Systems Inc. figured it out a dozen years ago. This outfit, which offers computerized maintenance management software, uses a “Software as a service” platform which it runs from a data centre in Halifax.
Software as a service, or SaaS, is a [...]]]></description>
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