TELUS will invest $2.1 billion across Ontario through 2018

Telus announced today it intends to invest an additional $2.1 billion in new infrastructure and facilities across Ontario through 2018. When combined with operational expenses, this will bring the total TELUS investment in Ontario over the next four years to more than $11 billion.

 By the end of 2018, TELUS will have invested more than $42 billion in Ontario since 2000 to further extend our advanced telecommunications infrastructure and healthcare services, helping fuel the province’s economic growth by ensuring sustained innovation and job creation.

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Linksys is the first company to sell more than 100 million routers

Linksys announced it has sold more than 100 million wired and wireless routers globally. Linksys pioneered the home router back in December 1999 when it shipped the first consumer grade router, the EtherFast Broadband Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port Switch – BEFSR41. 

 This router revolutionized how consumers would share an internet connection in their home.  Today, 16 years later and with more than 60 different routers connecting hundreds of millions of people and devices to the internet; Linksys has hit the milestone few technology products have achieved. 

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BlackBerry Acquiring WatchDox to bolster mobile content security and enterprise collaboration

BlackBerry Limited announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire WatchDox Ltd. to further enhance BlackBerry's best-in-class mobile security and give enterprises unmatched control over their files even after data leaves the corporate network. WatchDox's technology will be offered as a value-added service that complements BlackBerry's Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) portfolio, and will be available with BES12, a multi-OS EMM solution.

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Twitter lets you get DMs from people you don't follow

Twitter looks to boost its messaging feature by now letting you receive direct messages (DM) from anyone and reply to anyone who DMs you. You will need to opt in though through the settings page of the app. Twitter is letting you know how serious this is by putting the Direct Message button front and center on your contact page on the Android and iOS apps.

Previously, you could only receive messages from your followers and send them to those you follow. We're not sure what flood gates this will open, especially with the amount of harrassment that happens on the app. But this might also be a good way to reach out to people. 

Source: Engadget