Top five technology innovations in boating

By Jeff Sinclair

Jeff Sinclair is the Ambassador for Pride Marine Group and the “Voice of Boating”. He will be at the Toronto International Boat Show is on now through Sunday, January 17th and is taking place at the Enercare Centre at Exhibition Place. It's open from 10 am - 7pm on Saturdays, 10 am - 6 pm on Sundays and 11 am - 8 pm during the weekday. Here is his list of hottest new technologies in boating.

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The best technology from the 2016 North American International Auto Show

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla 

The automotive industry are the originators of the notion to push ‘new and improved,’ models yearly. Be it a new variants of beloved marquees, the addition of more chrome or fins, to moving the needle on performance, fuel economy, safety and of course, price.

Detroit, MI – Just days after the car-heavy International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas wrapped up, many expected the Detroit Auto Show to focus on new technologies like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto integration, improved driver assistive technologies, electrification and autonomous driving technology to name but a few.

Just like the consumer technology industry, the motoring world thrives on iteration and upgrade cycles and game changing breakthroughs. 

The automotive industry are the originators of the notion to push ‘new and improved,’ models yearly. Be it a new variants of beloved marquees, the addition of more chrome or fins, to moving the needle on performance, fuel economy, safety and of course, price.

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Google unveiling new Canadian engineering HQ in Waterloo

Google plans to unveil its new Canadian engineering headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario later this week. The new Kitchener-Waterloo venue will be the headquarters of Google’s Canadian development team. 

A handful of Googlers opened the company’s first office in Kitchener back in 2005. Since then, Google has steadily expanded its investment in the region and absorbed a lot of talent that had come to the hub. The new 185,000 sq feet headquarters unveiled this week will be home to over 350 engineers who work on products used by billions of people around the globe. It is a great vote of confidence on Canada's potential to create talent and technology hubs.

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Intuit Canada releases TurboTax Free mobile-first tax preparation tool

With Tax season around the corner, Intuit Canada has released TurboTax Free– a completely new (and free!) mobile-first offering for Canadians.

TurboTax Free is a zero-cost tax preparation application that covers almost all tax situations, including self-employment income and investments.

Built with mobility in mind, TurboTax Free allows users to seamlessly move across their devices while preparing their tax returns. The new offering can also instantly import tax information from the Canada Revenue Agency’s CRA My Account service with Auto-Fill My Return.

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