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Rogers Communications has unveiled NextBox™ 2.0, a suite of new features that will transform the home entertainment experience, allowing people to access live and recorded TV programs from any room in the home – a repackaging and upgrading of the same services that are available through most of the service providers, but still not offering (in my opinion, which I continue later on this page) true viewing autonomy to Canadians. Read the rest of this entry »

EXFO has announced that the new BrixHawk Distributed Analyzer will be showcased next week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Now commercially available, this latest EXFO innovation addresses a currently urgent need for measuring network and application quality of service (QoS) and determining subscribers’ quality of experience (QoE). Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto’s Crestwood School presents Race to Nowhere, the hard-hitting education documentary that exposes the silent epidemic in schools. This documentary investigates and exposes how our high-pressure, high-stakes culture has invaded schools and children’s lives, creating an unhealthy, disengaged, unprepared and stressed-out youth. Read the rest of this entry »

MaRS is delighted to announce that it has received a generous gift of $10 million from the Evans family, honouring the remarkable contributions of Dr. John Evans, Chair Emeritus of MaRS and one of its founders. The Evans family has generously supported MaRS since its inception. This gift will fund the development of the MaRS Solutions Lab – a new initiative that will help exceptional, young Canadian leaders approach complex, 21^st-century challenges from an integrated, multi-disciplinary perspective. Read the rest of this entry »

Astral’s Family Channel has commissioned a new series from Temple Street Productions. The Next Step is a single camera tween drama, shot in a reality television style. The show is created by Frank van Keeken, who created the popular Family Channel series, Wingin’ It (recipient of the 2011 Shaw Rocket Prize). Family has commissioned 26 half hours of the program which is set to begin filming in summer 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

The world war has gone intergalactic, as Montreal game publisher Meridian4 has announced that they have partnered with European developers Headup Games and Tindalos Interactive to bring Stellar Impact to Steam and other top distribution channels this spring.  Currently in beta on Tindalo Interactive’s website, Stellar Impact is an online strategy game that takes place in a sci-fi universe and now has a myriad of new features and enhancements. Read the rest of this entry »

Indie developer Hothead Games has announced the release of their first game for Android devices, the popular underwater treasure game, Sea Stars. Colorful graphics and responsive one-touch controls make Sea Stars an ideal pick-up-and-play mobile game, and the infinite gameplay is super-addictive. Download it from the Android Market for free now. Read the rest of this entry »

SpongeLab Interactive has released two new educational web games: Build-A-Tree and Knowledge Mine Beta – a game for which SpongeLab would like your feedback. These games are both free to play, and add to SpongeLab’s growing library of educational games and activities. Read the rest of this entry »

Seattle-based Z2Live, creators of genre defining, free-to-play social games for mobile devices, today announces the acquisition of Big Sandwich Games, an independent full-service game development studio based in Vancouver. Led by game industry veterans Glenn Barnes and Tyler Sigman, the Big Sandwich Games team will create the foundation of the newly formed Z2Live Games Vancouver. Read the rest of this entry »

As a result of an investigation conducted by the London Federal Enforcement Section of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) approximately 3,770 counterfeit DVDs worth approximately $75,000 were seized from a booth at the Gibraltar Trade Centre on Dundas Street East in London. A male and female, both from Cambridge, Ontario were arrested and face charges under the Copyright Act for allegedly offering for sale an infringing copy of work where a copyright subsists. If convicted they could faces fines of up to twenty-five thousand dollars and/or imprisonment for a maximum term of six months. Read the rest of this entry »