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According to the Romance Writers of America more than 74 million people read romance novels each year, with women accounting for 91% of this massive audience. Silicon Sisters, a developer of video games for women, is bringing this well-loved genre to life in a tantalizing new way with Everlove: Rose, an interactive romance novel for iPad, Kindle Fire, Nook HD, and other Android and Apple devices. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management developer OpenText™ has announced that the company has been named a leader across multiple categories in Computer-Based Fax Markets, 2012-2017, a recent report published by leading fax industry analyst firm, Davidson Consulting. Recognized as the #1 provider of fax servers, the #1 FoIP supplier and the #1 production fax server supplier, OpenText continues to strengthen its position as the market leader in messaging services, while moving to the forefront of the rapidly emerging hybrid faxing market forecasted to “more than double in size by 2017.”¹ In November 2012, Davidson Consulting also listed OpenText as the #1 provider of Enterprise Fax Service.^{2 Read the rest of this entry »}

Ubisoft® has announced a fourth character will join the ranks of heroes in The Mighty Quest For Epic Loot: The Runaway. Developed by Ubisoft Montreal, The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot is a hilarious free-to-play PC game that thrusts the player in an outrageous medieval fantasy world called Opulencia where wealth, status and showboating are the name of the game! Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has published its online Annual Report for the 2012-2013 fiscal year which outlines its role in shaping Canada’s creative economy and digital landscape. The Annual Report provides a complete overview of the CMF’s activities throughout 2012-2013. It contains detailed information on funding results as well as data on the success of projects funded by the CMF in terms of audience, critical acclaim and international sales. The complete financial overview section includes the Independent Auditors’ Report and Financial Statements. Read the rest of this entry »

Today at its Digital Days event, Ubisoft shared more details about several of its upcoming titles. First on the information list is Child of Light, a digital title to be released in 2014 on current- and next-generation platforms as well as PC.  The game is being created by a small team of seasoned developers based at Ubisoft Montreal. Child of Light has been developed on Ubisoft’s UbiArt Framework, a powerful engine that lets programmers and artists to bring their art to life by allowing original concept art to be inserted unedited into the game world. In Child of Light, the effect is that playing becomes akin to stepping into an interactive painting.  Read the rest of this entry »

BroadbandTV, one of the largest Multi-Channel Networks (MCN) on YouTube, signaled its continued growth today by announcing that it has reached a billion monthly impressions. The network now boasts more than 100 million subscribers from over 10,000 content partners, an increase of 2,200 content partners in just two months. In June this year, the company announced an initial $36 million investment from RTL Group, the leading European entertainment network. At the time, the deal marked the largest private placement in a Canadian Internet media company since 2007 and will support the business in its expansion plans. Read the rest of this entry »

Fifteen open, online textbooks in subject areas ranging from math and chemistry to marketing, psychology, and business have been reviewed by post-secondary faculty and are now freely available for download from BCcampus. More than 38 instructors and professors from post-secondary institutions around the province reviewed existing open textbooks for quality and relevance in British Columbia. These 15 textbooks have been found to be of high quality and appropriate for use in B.C. institutions (complete list below). Read the rest of this entry »

Five major Canadian digital media funding organizations have joined efforts to facilitate international digital media co-productions through the creation of a shared and simple framework (PDF 125KB) that sets the basis for co-producing digital media projects with Canada and to access their respective funding programs. The new framework was developed by the Canada Media Fund, the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, the Independent Production Fund, the Quebecor Fund, and the Shaw Rocket Fund. It provides a unified administrative approach to ease negotiations between Canadian producers and their foreign partners. Read the rest of this entry »

Quebec’s Squeeze Studio Animation has released its first Live Wallpaper on Google Play. The app, which is on sale for 99¢, features Fernutz the dancing farmer, one of the studio’s original characters. Fernutz Latino Dancing is a fun Live Wallpaper showcasing a highly detailed funny 3D animated character, challenging the studio’s artists with some crazy meringue-inspired dance choreography. More than a simple Live Wallpaper, Fernutz Latino Dancing proposes a cool ‘Match the Pose’ mini-game triggered by a quick touch of the on-screen joystick icon. Read the rest of this entry »

Nearing its one-year anniversary, Microsoft Corp.’s all-in-one music service, Xbox Music, continues making strides to deliver all the music people want, wherever they want it played. Today, Microsoft announced its plans to bring Xbox Music to iOS and Android devices, as well as free streaming on Xbox Music via the Web – see below for further details and conditions. Read the rest of this entry »