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At the Uniprix Stadium this morning, Bombardier, BMO Financial Group, Youth Fusion, Robotique FIRST Québec and Montreal Hooked on School, along with partners from the education community, launched the first Quebec Robotics Festival. Bringing together more than 5,000 people from 67 schools in Quebec, one in Ontario and four in the United States, this major event features high school and elementary students taking part in a series of significant technological challenges. The initiative aims to familiarize students with science and new technology, and inspire young Quebecers to stay in and succeed at school. Read the rest of this entry »

Maverick director Robert Rodriguez has teamed up with tech innovator AMD to launch the VISIONary Young Directors Contest. Aspiring film makers have the chance to win a trip to Austin City Limits (ACL) October 12-14, 2012 to meet Rodriguez in person, as well as cutting-edge film editing technology from HP to jump start their movie making careers. Read the rest of this entry »

IT security services provider NCI has acquired YourPrivacy, a consulting organization that helps Canadian enterprises comply with privacy regulations. YourPrivacy brings complementary strengths to NCI’s comprehensive suite of governance, risk and compliancy services (GRC); payment card industry (PCI) data security standard validation assessments; and IT security solutions. Read the rest of this entry »

Shaw Communications Inc. announced yesterday the appointment of Jim Little as Chief Marketing Officer, effective April 26. As CMO, Little will lead the strategic direction for the overall marketing and brand experience for all lines of business at Shaw. He will oversee all marketing activities to strengthen corporate brand, maximize sales, increase market share, and maintain industry leadership across all aspects of the business. Read the rest of this entry »

BlackBerry Alliance Partner Mobile Innovations couples PlayBook and police cruisers with apps to turn vehicles into mobile work-stations for law enforcement personnel. Secure PlayBook 2.0 apps include data access, error-free license scanning and ticket printing, activity reports, automated vehicle inspection reports, GPS mapping, voice transcription and more. Read the rest of this entry »

Starting Monday, March 26^th, Mise-o-jeu players will be able to place their bets online on an integrated, legal and secure site: Espacejeux. As announced by Loto-Québec in the fall of 2009, sports betting will soon be offered on a transactional site. Read the rest of this entry »

Poynt Corporation, Intertainment Media Inc. and Ortsbo Inc., a subsidiary of Intertainment Media Inc.,  announced yesterday that they have finalized a joint venture agreement. The JV Agreement provides for the integration of Intertainment’s real-time experiential language platform, Ortsbo, into the Poynt platform. The parties also undertook to explore the mutual exchange of advertising inventory and investigate additional opportunities for monetization of both the Poynt Platform and Intertainment’s other platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Siemens Canada Limited announced today that it has been successful in the acquisition, by its wholly-owned subsidiary of the outstanding common shares of rugged communications networking solutions provider RuggedCom Inc. for $33.00 per Common Share in cash, and that the Offer has expired. Read the rest of this entry »

Tucows Inc. has reinstated its previously announced stock buyback program to repurchase up to US $10 million of Tucows common stock.  The program, which initially commenced on November 15, 2011 and will end on November 14, 2012, was temporarily suspended when the company undertook its most recent Dutch Auction Tender, which was completed on January 20, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Social product development may not be a term everyone is familiar with yet, but that is something Dean Horsfield, CEO of Big Dreams Big ideas is out to change. Read the rest of this entry »