Calendar app Tempo cuts its wait list, expands to Canada

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Having healthy demand for your product is ideal, but Raj Singh, the CEO behind popular calendar app Tempo, knows that it's not good to keep people waiting in line too long.

That's why starting today, people will get access to Tempo twice as fast, Singh told CNET. "The goal is we want to get rid of the line. We know nobody likes lines," he said, adding that there are a few thousand people left on the wait list.

And although Tempo, the iOS app that had thousands waiting to use it at launch, isn't done providing access to everyone in the U.S. line, it's also opened up the cue for Canadian users today.

The app integrates relevant information into your calendar, including adding the contacts and related files to scheduled meetings. So if you schedule a meeting with so-and-so, then that person's contact information will show up on the created event along with any documents you may need to reference.

The app will also pull up directions to meeting locations, and with one tap, dial conference call numbers and access codes -- or if you're running late, send late messages to the people at the meeting.

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