Village Gamer

For many, “innovation” evokes notions of “radical change” or “transformation,” but Canada’s 2.4 million small business owners have a different definition. For them, innovation is less about disrupting markets and more about changes that generate the greatest impact for them and their livelihood. Read the rest of this entry »

Astral’s Harold Greenberg Fund‘s English-Language Program (Fund) and Planet in Focus have announced that SCORE: A Hockey Musical (SCORE) was selected as the recipient of the inaugural Planet in Focus Green Screen Award. The Award was announced during the 12^thAnnual Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival. This innovative award is the first of its kind in Canada, designed to highlight how film and television industry professionals are putting environmental awareness into action through greener production practices. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has released its first online Annual Report, which highlights its performance and contributions to Canadian culture in 2010-2011. An essential component of Canada’s digital economy strategy, the CMF provides ongoing funding support for the creation and promotion of content for all Canadians on the viewing platform of their choice. Read the rest of this entry »

UNIT4 Business Software,  provider of business software for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC™), has signed a significant deal with the City of Surrey in British Columbia. The contract, worth $1,633,800 in software and services, will see the City of Surrey replace its numerous disparate systems and implement Agresso Business World Route 66, the next generation of fast, flexible and user-friendly enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. The second largest city and the fastest growing in British Columbia, the City of Surrey selected Agresso Business World’s Financials, Procurement, PCB and Reporting modules ahead of ERP heavyweights SAP and Oracle. Read the rest of this entry »

October marks the fifth year iStockphoto has been in the stock video business, and to celebrate, the company is discounting video purchases by 15% from October 17th to 23rd. Reduced advertising budgets and the explosive demand for online video content have allowed the stock video industry to evolve at a highly accelerated pace. Today, iStockphoto’s video library contains nearly 400,000 files, to which a team of more than 6,500 videographers is adding roughly 2,500 files on a weekly basis. Read the rest of this entry »

Moneris Solutions^® has announced the launch of e-Select plus^®Mobile App, offering Canadian merchants the ability to accept credit card payments using their smartphones and capture sales on the go. Merchants can obtain real-time authorization, send email receipts to customers, and generate reports on transaction history through their mobile devices. The bundled card reader accessory plugs into the audio port of the smartphone, allowing credit cards to be swiped for ease-of-use. The Mobile App extends the capabilities of the e-Select plus platform, offering merchants additional convenience and security. Read the rest of this entry »

What do Degrassi: The Next Generation and Life with Derek have in common? These popular Canadian programs were both recipients of the Shaw Rocket Prize, an annual $50,000 prize awarded to the best independently-produced Canadian children’s program.

As part of the Shaw Rocket Fund, the Prize is presented each year to a Canadian children’s, youth, or family program and its associated digital content, voted for by children across the country. This is the seventh year for the Prize, supporting the production of high-quality Canadian children’s programming since 1998. Read the rest of this entry »

Webnames.ca has partnered with Small Business BC to offer a great opportunity to win a free FastTrack WordPress Website or Professional Video during October’s Small Business Month. The contest will be running for the entire month of October 2011, takes only minutes to apply and is open to residents of Canada (except Quebec). For full contest details and for your chance to win, visit the webnames contest page. Read the rest of this entry »

Ideavibes has announced the release of a new freemium version of its popular Crowd Engagement Platform which helps organizations manage their own crowdsourcing or crowdfunding campaigns to facilitate engagement and tap into the wisdom and power of the online crowd.

The Freemium Edition of the Ideavibes Crowd Engagement Platform, now available, allows customers to run their first crowdsourcing or crowdfunding campaign in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese for up to 45 days. Read the rest of this entry »

As part of the Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC), Wapikoni Mobile celebrated its first international launch yesterday with the screening of the year’s best films. Among the special guests of the night were some thirty young filmmakers from First Nations of Quebec and Latin America who have traveled a long way from their remote communities to share their work. Ghislain Picard, Chief of the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador, attended the screening and came to salute and encourage the work of these young artists. The Anishnabe rapper and spokesperson for the Wapikoni Mobile, Samian, also joined the night through video. He announced the concert that he will give for the benefit of the organization featuring Florent Vollant, Elisapie Isaac, Loco Locass, Richard Séguin, Anodajay and other friends on November 29^that the Club Soda. Read the rest of this entry »