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20th February 2009

Big Fish Games’ Vancouver Studio Debuts First Game

Big Fish GamesVancouverBig Fish Games™, the world’s leading online destination for games and interactive entertainment, announced today the release of Unwell Mel, an addictive puzzle game and the first title to come out of Big Fish Games’ recently opened Vancouver, B.C. studio. The Vancouver team – including unwellmelltitleartists and developers – allows Big Fish Games to more effectively expand its genre expertise without sacrificing the depth, quality and creativity that is the hallmark of Big Fish Games.

“Like all the games that we concept, develop and release, Unwell Mel is an original in its genre. It’s a creative twist on match-three games,” said Pat Wylie, vice president of Big Fish Games Studios. “I’m excited about our Vancouver team; their talent strengthens Studios, and as we grow the team we can ensure the continued production of great games.”

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20th February 2009

Google Myth Killer Book Launches Dispelling Common Beliefs about Google’s Search Results

A noted online author has put together a free online book that challenges common beliefs about how Google ranks web pages

Google MythAldergrove BC – Daniel J Deyette spent the last 7 years analyzing his sites and client sites trying to understand the stories floating around the internet about how Google really worked. Like many in the internet marketing industry, he was always reading about the “Sandbox Effect” or about how some link strategy had banned a website.

“People still believe stories that were told in 2005” Says Deyette, author of the new book Google Myths Exposed. “I just wanted to find a way to express everything I’ve learned, following the experts, listening and leaning on every word Matt Cutts and the Google Webmaster Central websites said.”

While Deyette’s book is not created, authorized, or endorsed by Google, it does quote many Google authorized sources and offer’s an intriguing insight into questions that website owners and marketers have been asking since Google’s inception in 1998.

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20th February 2009

DotNetPanel Launches Industry Leading BlackBerry Enterprise Module

Hosting companies can now integrate, manage, and sell BlackBerry Internet services along with Exchange Hosting services from one control panel

dotnetpanelVancouverDotNetPanel, a leading Windows hosting control panel developer, announced today its new BlackBerry Enterprise module, designed exclusively for companies wanting to increase sales and revenue by offering BlackBerry services. The new BlackBerry Enterprise module integrates seamlessly with existing Exchange Hosting services, all within one control panel.

“Our Exchange Hosting module has been a tremendous success so now we can leverage the ability to offer BlackBerry Internet services as an end-to-end product for our customers to resell to their end-users,” said Feodor Fitsner, Director of DotNetPanel. “In addition to our latest Hyper-V virtualization module, hosting providers and SaaS companies have several choices available to increase their market share and stay competitive in the hosting industry.”

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20th February 2009

Viigo Selected as First Third-Party Application in the BlackBerry Application Centre for Vodafone Australia

viigoTorontoViigo Inc., developer of the popular mobile content and services platform for smartphones, announced today that its award-winning application is the first third party application to be included in the BlackBerry Application Center for Vodafone.

Viigo is a free application that delivers a rich array of news, weather, sports, market data, personalised stock portfolios, shopping, social networks, movie listings, flight schedules, flight status and more, all customised by the user to suit their needs and delivered to them with unrivalled speed and simplicity.

Viigo, which is immediately available to all Vodafone Australia BlackBerry Storm customers, can be downloaded easily from the Application Center (which is found on the BlackBerry home screen), or by visiting http://www.viigo.com/en-au/vodafone

“People often call Viigo the most highly used application on their BlackBerry after email.” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “We’re excited by this initiative, and look forward to helping Vodafone deliver a truly differentiated BlackBerry smartphone experience, right out of the box.”

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20th February 2009

LiveCast And Yota Network Announce First Ever Live Video Streaming From A WIMAX Phone

Live from Intel’s Booth at Mobile World Congress, LiveCast Brings International Scenes to WiMAX Video Wall

livecastVancouver/Barcelona – Live video from mobile devices pioneer, LiveCast®, today announced support for the world’s first WiMAX phone, in partnership with Yota, the Russian operator developing and providing mobile services based on 4G Mobile WiMAX broadband technology.

LiveCast helps illustrate the power and speed of WiMAX for operators as well as end-users – currently supporting a variety of WiMAX enabled netbooks, PCs and mobile internet devices (MIDs). LiveCast has enabled hardware-level DSP assisted video encoding for the HTC MAX 4G mobile phone, furthering the company’s already extensive range of in-market supported WiMAX devices. LiveCast also takes full advantage of mobile devices’ built-in GPS capability by integrating location data for real-time tracking on a map, including automated notifications and social network sharing for Yota Network customers.

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