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Title: Teens Gone Wired: Are You Ready?
Author: Lyndsay Green
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
Published: 2011
Paperback, 280 Pages
Cover Price: $19.95
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Without a doubt, Teens Gone Wired: Are You Ready? by Canadian author, researcher and sociologist Lyndsay Green should be required reading for all parents. While both of my kids are well past their teen years and have been wired for years, this book still contains a lot of important information about one of the greatest challenges on being a parent: communication. I would go so far as to also recommend this book to teachers and caregivers who also play a part in the upbringing of our future generations. Read the rest of this entry »

Title: Powerful Exhibit Marketing
Author: Barry Siskind
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd.
Published: 2005
Paperback, 320 pages including index
Cover Price: $34.95
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It is early in the 2012 conference season, but some of the biggest events are already behind us or currently underway. Either way, it’s not too late to read Powerful Exhibit Marketing – The Complete Guide To Successful Trade Shows, Conferences and Consumer Shows by Canadian exhibit marketing specialist Barry Siskind. I picked this book up at the Wiley Canada booth at last year’s SIGGRAPH conference in Vancouver, wishing as I read it that I’d seen it before the conference – but we are now well-prepared for 2014 when SIGGRAPH returns, as well as any other event we may participant in as either exhibitor or attendees. Read the rest of this entry »

Portugese application publisher and developer AppGeneration has expanded its reach in the global market for the promotion of apps that were once paid and are now free with Canada Apps Free 24/7. This promotion app’s sole purpose is on promotions and sales, focusing on the latest deals just for Canadians in the App Store, bringing Canadians new savings every day, where the goal is to give you the best and most useful apps for free. Read the rest of this entry »

Ninja Bugs Plus! is a mobile app from One Haze that gives you all the joy of splattering bucket loads of bugs across your screen, grossing out parents everywhere – and now it’s available for free on iTunes, with an Android version coming soon. Fruits and vegetables are a great part of a healthy balanced diet and perfect if you’re a vegetarian.  But what’s the worst thing that a pineapple or a broccoli has ever done to you?  On the other hand, who hasn’t been scared by a giant spider crawling across the wall?  Or been kept awake by a fly buzzing around your head that you just can’t find?  What could be more satisfying than slicing, chopping and smashing these creepy crawlers!  Read the rest of this entry »

Bartsoft Inc. has released the new festive greeting card application for Android Tablet. eCard Express HD is available now on Google Play for $1.99 USD. This application enables users to create and customize greeting cards with high quality stickers, frames, and their own photos or images from the photo gallery. eCard Express HD is intuitive, very easy to use, and very efficient at producing Christmas and holiday cards, birthday greetings, dinner invitations, congratulations cards and customizable frames. Read the rest of this entry »

With so many potential enemies lurking on the streets of New York Zero (NYZ) in Radical Entertainment‘s Prototype 2, it’s important to take every opportunity to stay protected. With the streets full of threats at every turn – whether it’s the infected on the ground or the Blackwatch strike teams in the air, the player must do whatever it takes to survive…even if it means grabbing a chopper out of the sky and using it as a weapon of defence and destruction. Read the rest of this entry »

Empire Theatres, a partner in the Canadian Digital Cinema Partnership, has announced the completion of their digital cinema conversion project. The conversion began in theatres starting in May 2011, and its completion makes Empire Theatres the first national exhibitor in Canada to complete a digital cinema conversion. As of March 7, 2012, 359 screens in 45 theatres have been converted from 35mm to digital projection. Read the rest of this entry »

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Canada B2C E-Commerce Report 2012” report to their offering. Compiled by Hamburg-based market research firm yStats.com analyzes Canadian B2C E-Commerce trends. Aside from revenue figures and market shares, the report covers the most successful product categories. It also provides data about internet users and online shoppers along with information on top players. Read the rest of this entry »

To celebrate its 10 Year Anniversary, the Centre for Arts and Technology is pleased to announce they will be awarding scholarships totaling $475,000. To apply for a scholarship, students are asked to fill out an application including a short essay detailing where they see themselves 10 years from now. Read the rest of this entry »

ViXS Systems Inc. has announced two System on Chip (SoC) solutions enabling DOCSIS media gateways – the XCode 5191, a quad HD to HD transcoder, in production today, and the XConnex 1030 MoCA2.0 solution, general sampling in Q2 2012.  Both devices are cost optimized to be used in DOCSIS media gateway platforms. Read the rest of this entry »