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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released statistical and financial reports on Canadian conventional television stations, cable and satellite providers for the broadcast year ended August 31, 2011. Although revenues remained slightly below pre-recession levels, the profitability of private conventional broadcasters improved mainly due to a reduction in overall program expenses. Read the rest of this entry »

Bartsoft Inc. has published new cards and frames for its eCard Express for iPhone and eCard Express HD for iPad applications. All of these new cards are free of charge for current eCard Express users. eCard Express now offers a total of more then 260 greeting cards and frames in 18 different categories. Read the rest of this entry »

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP  has been selected to represent the Canada’s Got Talent finalists, with a team comprised of Len Glickman, Jessica Fingerhut, Colin Pendrith and Gillian Carter.  Read the rest of this entry »

Groupe Archambault is pleased to present ZIK, a new music streaming service. Offering 12 million songs with fully interactive and unlimited access, ZIK is also the largest collection of French-language music, with 1.2 million titles in French. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has announced that it is seeking views on whether the wireless market has changed enough to warrant its intervention in the development of a national code for wireless services. The CRTC recently received several applications suggesting that one be established. Read the rest of this entry »

The Royal Canadian Mint is pleased to announce that it has launched a program for developers from across North America to test and challenge a digital currency technology and to determine its applicability to the current marketplace. The MintChip™ Developer Challenge, which will accept submissions from April 4 until August 1, is part of the Mint’s ongoing research and development efforts. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s ACM SIGGRAPH chapter invites you to join them on Thursday April 26th for a presentation by Double Negative’s Visual Effects Supervisor Ken McGaugh on The Creatures of John Carter at the Vancity Theatre. Doors will open for the event at 6:00pm for a pre-session industry mixer. A Q & A session will follow the 7:00pm presentation. Read the rest of this entry »

RTDNA Canada, the Association of Electronic Journalists, is pleased to recognize excellence in electronic journalism in the Central Region when it presents its annual awards in Toronto on June 21st, honouring the best programs, stations and news-gathering organizations in both radio and television. Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook has shown greater awareness of users privacy rights, but still needs to do a better job of considering privacy issues before rolling out new features, Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) Jennifer Stoddart said today in announcing the findings of three complaint investigations involving the popular social networking site. Read the rest of this entry »

UK developer Feral Interactive today confirmed that first-person role-playing game Deus Ex: Human Revolution^TM – Ultimate Edition will be released for the Mac on Thursday, April 26th. Developed by Eidos Montreal and published by Square Enix for games consoles and PC, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a prequel to the legendary Deus Ex (2000). Read the rest of this entry »