Personalization is the buzzword in tech these days. From your phone to your web surfing we want things our way. Trying to tap into that is what Ottawa-owned LeoNovus is all about. They offer one-stop access to anything on the web.
Dan Willis is the tech brains for LeoNovus. He holds 60 patents and has spent 15 years with Nortel Ottawa. He sold his own firm, Adscape, to Google.
"What we do is bring all the Internet, all the time. Our focus is on the consumer's experience," Willis says.
LeoNovus software has a homepage with icons representing your areas of interest, be it movies, games or social media.
Click on an icon, a list of favourites opens and click on what you want.
"You don't have to know what a URL is; you should just be able to easily find what you want and launch it," Willis says.
You can download the beta version of this software at leonovus.com. Willis says Ottawa is now their lead research centre.
Company CEO Gord Campbell has an amazing tech track record in Silicon Valley, Calif., from developing the first ethernet chip, the first PC on a chip and the chipset that's still a standard for all PC's.
He began this venture as Personal Web Systems. The need for money and software talent led them to Ottawa and eventually a new company name, LeoNovus.
"There's a revolution on the web," Campbell says. "People don't want some dictator saying you can only access the web one way ... the rebellion has started and it's growing quickly." He expects their software to sell later this year primarily to big carriers who will offer it to consumers through a set-top box.
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