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Hosted VoIP, Voice, Video, IT and Data services provider BroadConnect Telecom has unveiled new business, private, and hybrid hosting solutions delivered via cloud. This launch comes in efforts to meet customer demands for cost-efficient virtualization for application, data and storage hosting. BroadConnect’s uniquely advanced Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) presents businesses of all sizes with access to cloud solutions that are both redundant and reliable. Read the rest of this entry »

Starting this month, the New Avengers Assemble Thor Hammer 3D Night Light from Canadian designer 3DLightFX will be available exclusively at Target Stores across the entire United States. The 3D Light is battery operated and comes with a very cool 3D Crack sticker making it appear as though the Thor Hammer has been thrown into your wall. Read the rest of this entry »

Pioneer virtualization and cloud management software developer Embotics Corporation announced earlier this week that it has joined the OpenStack community. As an active member of the OpenStack community, Embotics is continuing its commitment to integrate with OpenStack in future Embotics vCommander releases.

Embotics is executing a strategy of brokering IT services from any hypervisor, any cloud and remains committed to giving its enterprise customers the freedom of choice to avoid cloud platform lock-in. While VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V are commonly recognized today as leading on-premises platforms, OpenStack is emerging as another platform of interest for enterprises.

OpenStack was founded by Rackspace Hosting, NASA and a host of other companies. It has grown into a global software community of developers who are collaborating on an extremely scalable open source cloud operating system and standard. The group’s mission is to enable any organization to create and offer cloud computing services running on standard hardware.

Embotics’ flagship product, vCommander, was developed for mid-sized to large enterprises that are building and managing clouds. The platform provides multi-hypervisor management, automation and self-service provisioning to help enterprises gain visibility and control of their virtualized environments. Embotics vCommander deploys in 15 minutes and delivers the industry’s fastest time to value. vCommander also provides a multi-tenant cost model, analytics and cross-platform workload migration to help customers make economically justified platform decisions for their virtualized data centers, setting it apart from other cloud management platforms.

“OpenStack has gained momentum in the industry, and the OpenStack community represents an intelligent collaboration of cloud computing experts,” said Jay Litkey, CEO of Embotics. “Our participation in the community and commitment to integrate OpenStack services into upcoming vCommander releases delivers on our vow to support any hypervisor and any cloud, which is essential in a landscape where data centers are increasingly managing multiple hypervisors across disparate cloud platforms.”

The editors of the Canada’s Top 100 Employers project have released their 2014 application, which will determine the winners of the national project as well as 20 other popular regional and special-interest “top employer” competitions.  Winners of the national project will be announced this fall in The Globe and Mail. This year’s application deadline is June 13, 2013, and The Top 100 editorial team will host a free webinar for employers interested in applying to this year’s project on May 7 and 14. Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media Inc. subsidiary Ortsbo, Inc. has been chosen to enable global buyer-seller communication within the Grebids electronic bidding platform scheduled to launch in the summer of 2013. Ortsbo will enable buyers and sellers to communicate accurately about goods and services in real time across the language spectrum. Read the rest of this entry »

Prefect® Inc. has announced that it is now offering its flagship virtual market testing service for film/TV professionals to other industries. Prefect- an online tool that measures audience reaction to elements of a filmmaker’s production – is now available to professionals in the music, literature, gaming, fashion and snack food industries. Read the rest of this entry »

The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) is in Ottawa to advocate for improvements to the patent and trade-mark systems in Canada. On the occasion of World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, IPIC is calling on the government to make small but important changes to Canada’s IP laws to ensure that IP owners and Canadian innovators do not face the inadvertent loss of rights from events ranging from natural disasters to simple clerical errors in the application process. Read the rest of this entry »

Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises Holdings Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “Mobilicity“) has obtained two orders of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) authorizing Mobilicity to, among other things, call and hold meetings at which two arrangements will be voted on by debt holders pursuant to the Canada Business Corporations Act. Each of the meetings of security holders is scheduled to be held on May 21, 2013. The record date for entitlement to vote at the meetings is April 25, 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile security and risk management solutions provider Fixmo has announced its collaboration with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to enable secure mobile communications and access to mission-critical applications from a range of smartphones and tablets. Fixmo and the USAF will further its collaboration under a newly established Co-operative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the 688^th IOW, which will focus on the development and deployment of advanced mobile security and attestation technologies to enable trusted mobile computing in the field on a wide range of mobile devices. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management developer OpenText™ has announced that industry analyst firm, Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), has recognized OpenText as one of 12 Smart Process App vendors that matter most today. In The Forrester Wave™: Smart Process Applications, Q2 2013 report, Forrester describes the core functional requirements for Smart Process Applications as including Business Process Management (BPM), Content Management, Content Capture and Distribution, Collaboration, and Analytics. Forrester evaluated 12 vendors on their ability to provide this broad suite of technologies along with the strategic vision for automating the complex, dynamic, and people-oriented processes that most organizations must deal with. Read the rest of this entry »