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Who sets more hearts aflutter: He-Man or Pepé Le Pew? Smurfette or Lois Lane? As Valentine’s Day approaches, TELETOON Retro is asking viewers to vote for the most captivating cartoon characters in the TELETOON Retro Hall of Fame Top 5 Crushes campaign. Starting Monday, January 23 and running until Sunday, February 12, viewers can vote for the top five objects of their affection at the TELETOON Retro site or on their Facebook page. Read the rest of this entry »

Dx3 Canada, Canada’s only expo dedicated to digital marketing, digital advertising and digital retailing has announced that Doug Stephens, Founder, Retail Prophet Consulting & Candice Faktor, President, Shopcatch and VP, Strategy and New Ventures, Torstar Digital will be delivering a keynote presentation on the second day of the expo. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto-based Guardly develops mobile applications that broadcast calls for help and connects people to provide assistance in case of emergency. Today, Guardly is announcing a free nationwide service for students, faculty and staff at 67 Canadian universities and colleges across Canada. By simply downloading the Guardly app and registering with a university-issued email address, campus members can hold their own personal code-blue emergency phones, providing one-touch mobile access to campus security from virtually any location on campus. This is the first time that a service of its kind is being made available to Canadian students. Read the rest of this entry »

Cineplex Entertainment, via its Front Row Centre Events, is pleased to announce the return of The Great Digital Film Festival on Friday, February 3, 2012 and runs until Thursday, February, 9, 2012. A collection of 18 movies will be brought back to the big screen for guests to enjoy during the week-long all digital film festival. Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media Inc. has announced that its social media, real time, experiential communications platform, Ortsbo is teaming up with two of pop culture’s legendary names Stan Lee and Gene Simmons for “Ortsbo Live and Global at the Sundance Film Festival“. The event will be live to audiences worldwide on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 from the Canyons Grand Summit Resort in Park City, Utah. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s PDFConverter has announced the release of PDF Converter Elite 3 (PCE 3), a PDF management software with the ability to create, edit and convert PDF documents. PDF Converter Elite is a great, favorably-priced alternative to Adobe Acrobat, at only $99.95, and is fully compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Microsoft Office 2003 to 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has introduced a new policy that will encourage large telephone companies to rapidly adopt Internet Protocol (IP) throughout their networks. This shift will promote the development of innovative services for Canadians. Read the rest of this entry »

TELUS is making access to reliable, verified Canadian healthcare information online a snap with My Health Reference, a new health reference internet portal designed to help Canadians find the relevant information and tools they need to take better care of their health and the health of their loved ones. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile coupon platform retailcommon has raised $250,000 in funding from its current shareholders in a strong vote of confidence in the company as its smartphone coupon platform has successfully passed the beta stage with a bright future in this exploding field. Read the rest of this entry »

Make Technologies, leader in legacy application modernization software and services, will team up with Kaavo, Inc., an American cloud management software provider, to deliver a webinar titled “Migrate Legacy Applications to the Cloud” on January 24, 2012 at 11 am PST/2pm EST. Cloud computing has moved from science fiction to business reality. Enterprises are looking to cut costs and gain agility by migrating mainstream business applications to cloud infrastructure and platforms. Read the rest of this entry »