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Toshiba Canada’s Nominate a Hero contest invites you to pay it forward by nominating a hero in your life who has helped you in a memorable way. By submitting your story and a photo, you will have the opportunity to select from 3 available prize packs that your hero could potentially win if they are selected as one of the top three winners.  As a bonus, you will also receive a Toshiba Tablet if your hero is selected as one of three winners. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto’s Alexander Levy never planned to start a business, but while working as a student researcher at the University of Toronto, he developed a prototype mobile application that allows people with communication disorders, such as those caused by stroke, autism and ALS, to make themselves understood audibly – at a tiny fraction of the cost of existing hardware systems. Read the rest of this entry »

Ricoh Canada has announced the functional integration of InfoPrint Solutions Canada, providing customers with an even broader offering of document management solutions. The integration of InfoPrint provides Ricoh with immediate access to a specialized segment of the market that was previously underserviced by the global Document Management company.  Specifically, InfoPint’s expertise in high speed production colour adds tremendous value to an already robust Ricoh portfolio.  Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft Toronto is the “start-up in disguise,” as Jade Raymond calls it. The studio head and managing director of the year-and-a-half-old studio now houses almost 200 employees, and is well on its way to hitting the planned 800 over the next 10 years. We caught up with Raymond at WIFT-T’s inaugural International Women in Digital Media Summit in Stratford, ON to talk about the people she wants to bring on board at the growing AAA game company, her strategic goals for the next few years and how Ubisoft has handled its IP across different platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Today Funcom kicks off Week of the Templars – a full week of focus on the Templars secret society. Throughout the week, all eyes will be on the historic and uncompromising Templars society, one of three secret societies represented in the upcoming, modern-day MMO ‘The Secret World’. Read the rest of this entry »

District 86 Toastmasters, which is affiliated with Toastmasters International, is pleased to announce that Galaxy Toastmasters, a new Toastmasters Club, will be holding its blast off meeting on Monday, November 21st at the Dundas Legion Hall at 280 King Street West, Dundas, ON.  The meeting will begin at 7:00pm sharp and last for two hours. Read the rest of this entry »

Burnaby’s tt-i launched the HD Buddy NightOwl plug & play mobile video camera this summer into the School Bus market and it is proving to be an ideal solution for Transportation Directors across the USA with limited budgets to spend on mobile video surveillance. School Bus operators now have the opportunity to protect their passengers, drivers and their business with the latest in mobile video surveillance. Read the rest of this entry »

Software developer actiMIND has released actiTIME 3.0, offering Enhanced reporting and Email notifications features, targeting both Team & Accounting managers and Regular users. With increased functionality and low subscription costs,  actiTIME proves that time-tracking software is a simple low-price office application, which is meant to be a cost-efficient and money saving tool for small to mid-size companies. Read the rest of this entry »

Award-winning transmedia web series Heroes of the North has released their fifteenth episode titled Wardrobe Malfunction, written by Jim Burke and starring Anne-Marie Losique, Edith Labelle, Anderson Bradshaw, Babak Motamed and Pia Metni with a special appearance by Bianca Beauchamp. This episode completes the third of four parts of the first Season episodes. Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa’s Rove will be offering demonstrations of its award-winning mobile IT management solution, Mobile Admin, to CA Technologies users during CA World 2011, which opens today at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Mobile Admin supports CA Service Desk Manager on Blackberry devices, iOS devices for iPhone and iPad and Android smartphones and tablets. Read the rest of this entry »