Village Gamer

Canadian app developer Robots and Pencils challenges you to save the damsel in distress over and over and over again in its upcoming physics-based puzzle game Catch the Princess HD. Play through more than 60 dungeon levels with a wide variety of challenges, cutting the chains that bind the poor princess to the ceiling. Plan your moves carefully, using bellows, pixie dust and physics to swing the princess’ cage past dangerous obstacles, as you guide her into the waiting arms of a fang-toothed admirer. Read the rest of this entry »

As we told you earlier this year, Toronto-based Maide Inc. has taken on the challenge of designing a new method of control for people who use 3D CAD programs. Their first product, Maide Control, turns the iPad into a multi-touch input device for programs such as Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Solidworks, Google Sketchup, and Rhinoceros 3D, and allows for multiple iPads to connect to one computer simultaneously.  Read the rest of this entry »

In preparation for its upcoming transmedia sessions in January, Merging Media Toronto has announced the five distinguished Jury members for the MMTO Lab Jury Panel who will listen to pitches and decide which workshop project will be named the winner. Read the rest of this entry »

Manitoba residents in Neepawa, Minnedosa, Killarney and Carberry will soon enjoy the next generation of high definition television and faster broadband connections when MTS deploys its fibre-to-the-home network (FiON) to these four communities in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

In an aggressive pursuit to increase its presence in key markets across Canada, Citytv has signed an affiliate agreement with Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN), the two networks announced today. Beginning January 2, Citytv programming will air from 3 p.m. to 5:59 a.m. CST every day, at which time the network will officially be called ‘Citytv on SCN’.  Throughout the remainder of the day, the station will be referred to as ‘SCN’, and will continue to air educational and children’s programming, commercial free. Read the rest of this entry »

RuggedCom Inc., a designer and manufacturer of industrial strength networks for mission-critical applications in harsh environments, announces the launch of a utility grade computing line module for the RuggedBackbone™ RX1500, known as RuggedAPE™ (Rugged Application Processing Engine). Read the rest of this entry »

The holiday season is filled with love, laughter and joy – and that’s especially true for children. With that in mind, Microsoft Canada today unveiled the art of its 15^thannual Holiday Greeting Card Competition, drawn by nine-year-old Maggie Yang, a member of the Eastview (Toronto) Boys and Girls Club/Eastview Neighbourhood Community Centre. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadians predict faster network speeds, smaller laptops and purchases over their wireless device in 2012 and beyond, according to a new survey¹commissioned by Rogers Communications. The survey finds that most Canadian smartphone or tablet users feel technology will improve their lives in the future. Read the rest of this entry »

While the vast majority (83 per cent) of Canadian executives said that fraud prevention and detection is a priority at their organization, only 9 per cent of those surveyed said they have business analytics software designed to help detect fraud running all the time. These are just some of the findings in a SAS / Leger survey of 1,033 Canadian executives at mid-sized and large organizations conducted earlier this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Absolute^®Software Corporation has announced that the company has completed a Computrace® software license sale covering more than 60,000 student laptops with the Queensland Government’s Department of Education and Training (DET) in Australia. Read the rest of this entry »