23rd
April
2012
Nightingale Informatix Corporation, an application service provider (ASP) of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services, today announced that it has signed a $2.15 million services contract with the Association of Ontario Health Centres (AOHC) to i) migrate data from their member centres’ existing EMR databases to Nightingale’s EMR platform and ii) create virtualized local environments for each of the members’ existing databases so the original client data will be accessible for reference purposes as needed. This services agreement follows the EMR software deployment contract awarded to Nightingale in December 2011 by the AOHC for the benefit of its member centres. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Business News, National News, Software By: Tami | Print This Post
23rd
April
2012
DHX Media Ltd. is pleased to announce it has signed a licence agreement with Immediate Media for the UK magazine rights of Rastamouse, its hit preschool property currently airing in the UK on CBeebies and the BBC’s internet viewing platform, iPlayer. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Animation, Business News, National News By: Tami | Print This Post
23rd
April
2012
Amazon.ca has announced the launch of its new Baby store featuring over 25,000 baby-related products. Canadians can now purchase everything from diaper bags and toys to car seats and strollers with Free Super Saver Shipping, eligible on orders over $25, and a 45-day return policy. With this large selection of baby products, customers will be able to find whatever fits their baby needs. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Business News, National News By: Tami | Print This Post
23rd
April
2012
Getty Images has just announced the launch of “This Is Canada“, a photography competition that gives enthusiasts the opportunity to become Getty Images contributors through the Flickr Collection and the chance to win a brand new Canon EOS 7D Digital SLR Kit and 2,000 AIR MILES® reward miles (see below for details). Starting today and running until May 19, anyone with a camera can participate in Getty Images’ search for authentic Canadian imagery. “This Is Canada” provides a platform for the country’s outstanding creative talent to show off their visual definition of Canada. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Contests, National News By: Tami | Print This Post
23rd
April
2012
Sargas Capital‘s portfolio company Kontexto, a high growth leader in real time data collection and analysis for media organizations, has announced the launch of version 2.0 of publishflow™, a real time content analytics service trusted by digital media publishers around the world. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in National News, New Releases, Software By: Tami | Print This Post
21st
April
2012
Canadians have lots of reasons to enjoy mashing mosquitoes. But now with a new online game called Mosquito Masher, they can bash those bothersome bugs and save lives at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Casual, Everyone, fundraisers, National News, New Releases By: Tami | Print This Post
21st
April
2012
OpenText™ celebrated 20 years of innovation and growth yesterday with the official opening of the company’s Innovation Centre at its headquarters location. The company that started as an offshoot of a University of Waterloo search engine project has burgeoned into Canada’s largest software company, operating around the world with annual revenues in excess of US $1 billion. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Business News, Events, National News By: Tami | Print This Post
21st
April
2012
TVO‘s Chief Executive Officer Lisa de Wilde spoke yesterday at the Journalism Strategies conference in Montreal, a two-day discussion on journalism and its role in strengthening civil society. In a session entitled “Paying the Bills”, de Wilde focused on the unique role educational media plays, the public policies that underpin TVO’s financial model and the funding challenges and opportunities in an era of declining public sector financial capacity. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Careers, Events By: Tami | Print This Post
21st
April
2012
The demand for knowledge about intellectual property rights by owners of small and medium-sized businesses has strengthened in recent years as these businesses realize the importance of intellectual property (IP). Indeed, while most people have heard of IP, few are very familiar with the different kinds of IP-namely, patents, trade-marks, copyright and industrial designs-and how they can help to grow a business. Read the rest of this entry »
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20th
April
2012
Over the past year, Canada has put new regulations in place to bring government agencies up to speed with international Web accessibility guidelines. As a result, all Canadian government websites must now be in compliance with Common Look and Feel standards or CLF. HiSoftware Inc., a US-based provider of content aware compliance and security solutions, today announced it has released a new out-of-box checkpoint group to allow Canadian government agencies to monitor and enforce CLF standards on both public-facing websites and intranets. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Government, National News By: Tami | Print This Post