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Sierra Wireless has announced that Nestlé Nespresso SA, the pioneer and market leader in highest-quality portioned premium coffee, has selected Sierra Wireless to provide a comprehensive machine-to-machine (M2M) cloud platform and hardware solution to provide connectivity for Nespresso coffee machines used in restaurants, hotels, offices, and luxury retail boutiques. Read the rest of this entry »

The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI) has just announced an evening with cult animator and Academy Award nominee, Don Hertzfeldt, including a screening of his latest film, It’s Such a Beautiful Day on March 5th at The Royal Cinema. Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic Arts Inc. has delivered the first true HD console experience on a hand-held gaming device with the launch of EA SPORTS™ FIFA Soccer on the PlayStation® Vita handheld entertainment system, available now in retail stores throughout North America and Europe. The first game ever developed for the PlayStation Vita by EA SPORTS features the award-winning FIFA Soccer console quality gameplay, graphics, game modes and authenticity. Read the rest of this entry »

A Thinking Ape and Silicon Sisters are hosting a White Day Hackathon on Saturday, March 10th in Vancouver. While this event is designed to create a coding environment that’s friendly to female developers, everyone is welcome to come and participate (50 spots available). Tickets are $10.00 and available for purchase. There are also sponsorship opportunities for those who are interested. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based Rapid Eye Movement recently released Ounce Bounce 1.0.1, a breakout-style game with fresh, unique new elements such as a continuous level design combined with a dynamic level generation system and the addition of physics for both iOS and Android phones.

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The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, announces that the firm Mingus Software Inc. has been granted financial assistance to commercialize its Hotello hospitality management software in Latin America and the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

Yaletown Capital Corp. (dba Freedom Bionics), in conjunction with Cognitive Research Canada, is pleased to announce the availability of mind my family smartphone software for the Android 2.3 operating system (or newer). Mind my family is an Alzheimer’s cognitive memory-related family communications and safety software application for Android smartphones that operates on the Just Family Network. The software is scheduled for release tomorrow, February 21st Read the rest of this entry »

Managed web hosting provider 7L has announced their new hosting product lineup; a response to the increasing demand of businesses and their evolving customer needs. The Toronto-based Internet data center facility is expected to roll-out all four of its new innovative hosting products as early as March 1st. Note: At press time, the 7L site was not working – their Twitter account has been inactive since October 3rd, with their only tweets being about network issues. Read the rest of this entry »

Saskatoon company cfactor Works Inc. has formed a strategic partnership with Pennsylvania-based people insights and analytics firm Spring International. By combining their complementary offerings, the resulting solution will deliver a range of employee engagement analytics and consulting services backed by enhanced web-based capabilities for managers to action their engagement plans and track their outcomes. Read the rest of this entry »

Bluedrop Performance Learning has successfully expanded into the healthcare training market with the official launch of its online nursing community, Nursing Powered by CoursePark (formerly NursesNetwork.com). In only its second month of activity, more than 10,000 nursing members through associations and affiliations have adopted CoursePark to obtain their Continuing Education (CE). Read the rest of this entry »