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Mobile Fringe has launched Push a Deal, the first service to use willing consumers’ smart-phone GPS locations to send them deals when they cross the “geo-fence” and enter a participating store’s immediate vicinity. For the smartphone savvy set, this app means immediate savings on things to buy, do and eat at close proximity.

Since its launch in late 2008, Mobile Fringe has built a robust mobile retail platform that has achieved over one million user impressions through retail shopping apps such as the Toronto Eaton Centre and Yorkdale Shopping Centre apps. Now the company is using that expertise and launching a mobile location-based service where deals are presented and pushed to users who are truly in the right place at the right time. Starting in Toronto, Push a Deal will be rolling out to Canadian cities over the ensuing months. In fact, willing consumers in Vancouver and Montreal can already download the app and have existing local group deals sent to them. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based Strangeloop Networks has announced its latest product – Mobile Site Optimizer – the first website acceleration solution designed from the ground up to meet the specific needs of mobile users. Mobile Site Optimizer (MSO) – which is currently in beta and will be available in Q4 of this year – is the latest in a series of industry firsts for Strangeloop. The company was also the first to offer advanced site optimization via the cloud, as well as the first to integrate Google’s SPDY protocol into its products. Read the rest of this entry »

D-Link has announced the D-Link® DAP-2565 AirPremier® N Dual Band PoE Access Point with Plenum-Rated Chassis powered by CloudCommand™, designed for indoor plenum deployment in above-ceiling airspace installations. The new Cloud-Managed solution provides small and medium-sized businesses, as well as K-12 and hospitality environments, with a secure, reliable and affordable way to manage their networks. Read the rest of this entry »

D-BOX Technologies Inc. has a new agreement with Orange Sky Golden Harvest Entertainment Company for the installation of 19 additional D-BOX MFX Seats at one of the company’s premiere Hong Kong locations.

This latest agreement marks the second sale of D-BOX MFX Seats in Hong Kong, the first taking place earlier this year when Golden Harvest Mongkok introduced its first D-BOX auditorium, and will generate licensing fees payable to D-BOX in accordance with the systems’ use. With this installation, Golden Harvest Mongkok will boast two D-BOX auditoriums further expanding D-BOX’s footprint in Asia. Read the rest of this entry »

Touch Village Inc. has released Dragons Rage, a tower defense styled medieval arcade game where users take the place of an angry dragon and fight to defend themselves against an onslaught of enemies like knights with swords, archers and pike men. Using the power of fire and the movement of the mobile device, the dragon must defeat enemies as they attack from all sides. Users will fight their way through villages, towns and mountains to reach the castle and their final challenge. A universal iOS game, Dragons Rage is currently available at the introductory sale price of $1.99. Read the rest of this entry »

Corel today announced the winners of the 2011 CorelDRAW® International Design Contest. With categories representing a range of production and design disciplines, the contest celebrates the diversity of CorelDRAW talent from around the globe. A total of twenty-four winning designs were selected from the hundreds of entries submitted by CorelDRAW users worldwide. Joseph Diaz of Pontiac, Illinois was named the Grand Prize winner for his entry entitled Steampunk Stella’s. All of the winning designs can now be viewed on the  CorelDRAW web site. Read the rest of this entry »

Preo Software Inc. has extended its contractual relationship with Xerox Corporation until June 2013. This agreement centers around using Preo’s proprietary technology in the industry’s first customer installable assessment tool that measures color area coverage on each page, real time, for Xerox’s award-winning ColorQube™ 9300 Series multifunction printer (MFP). Read the rest of this entry »

Beanheads Consulting Inc. recently released Photo Folder 1.0 for Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and app that provides users with intuitive photo organization tools including personalized folders and filters for easy photo finding. The Photo Folder app allows users to create personalized folders to quickly organize their photo library. Additionally, users can select multiple photos and file them in designated folders. Multiple layers of folders allow users to further arrange their photos into a hierarchy that best suits their needs. In additional, flexible options such as assigning ratings or assigning keywords within a photo’s metadata gives users the ability to filter their photo collection to find a desired image. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most popular Palm OS applications, body-PRO, has been re-engineered specifically for iOS and on September 13, 2011 it was co-released with NutriScanner. Both of these applications offer unique firsts for iOS applications as well as deliver successfully as best in class applications for Health and Fitness. The combination of body-PRO and NutriScanner provides the health, diet and fitness enthusiast with more features than any other fitness application. Read the rest of this entry »

DIRECTV has acquired all three seasons of the critically acclaimed, award-winning Canadian comedy series Less Than Kind. Produced and distributed by Toronto-based Breakthrough Entertainment, the series will make its exclusive U.S. debut this fall on DIRECTV’s Audience Network, joining fellow Canadian hit Call Me Fitz as part of the network’s stable of comedy programming. UTA, on behalf of Breakthrough Entertainment, brokered the deal with DIRECTV. Read the rest of this entry »