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Absolute® Software Corporation, the Vancouver-based provider of firmware-embedded, persistent endpoint security and management solutions, announced today the release of Absolute Computrace® 5.11.  With this release, Absolute customers now have more tools to securely address the critical governance and compliance requirements they are challenged by every day in implementing their data security and management strategy. Read the rest of this entry »

DesignCrowd, a crowdsourcing company based in Australia that specialises in helping businesses outsource or ‘crowdsource’ design projects, is pleased to announce the launch of DesignCrowd.ca — a new crowdsourcing website for Canadian businesses and designers. Read the rest of this entry »

Kobo Inc., has introduced its self-publishing portal Kobo Writing Life for independent authors and publishers. Designed to help writers become the best authors and publishers possible, Kobo Writing Life offers key reader insights and marketing tools to engage with fans on a global scale. Read the rest of this entry »

Young Canadians are facing a host of privacy risks that previous generations never had to worry about – from “nanny cams” to cell phone monitoring to a permanent trail of their online communications, says the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Youth privacy issues have emerged as a significant concern and are highlighted in the Commissioner’s 2011 Annual Report to Parliament on the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada’s federal private-sector privacy law. The report was tabled in Parliament today. Read the rest of this entry »

CiRBA has announced Version 7.1 of the CiRBA Control Console, enabling IT organizations to optimize capacity decisions, VM placements and resource allocations for AIX-based IBM PowerVM environments. This latest version will allow customers to leverage the same technology they use to optimize VMware and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments to manage virtualized AIX infrastructure.

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Virtus Media announces that Lobster Inc. (working title), a documentary on the Atlantic Canadian inshore fishing industry and the communities it supports, is to begin principal photography June 16th. The three person crew will travel to Atlantic Canada, gather interviews and footage of the beautiful Atlantic coast. Read the rest of this entry »

ViXS Systems Inc. and KWorld today announced HU320 USB HD Transcoding Stick, a reference platform that OEMs can adopt to enhance their products with media content mobility functions. The HU320 platform has been designed to add HD transcoding technology to Set-top Box, PC, NAS, Router and other CE platforms, allowing consumers to view their media content anywhere in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft invites you to go beyond the reach of civilization lies a lawless island ruled by violence. This is where you find yourself stranded, caught in a bloody conflict between the island’s psychotic warlords and indigenous rebels. Struggling to survive, your only hope of escape is through the muzzle of a gun. Read the rest of this entry »

Go beyond Sony Picture Entertainment’s Colombia Pictures feature film and find out what happens next in The Amazing Spider-Man^TM video game, which brings Spider-Man’s free-roaming, web-slinging action back to New York City.  Beenox Studios is polishing up the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, PC and 3DS versions of the game for its June 26th release, while Other Ocean developed The Amazing Spider-Man for Nintendo DS. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft debuted its new, ground-breaking intellectual property yesterday at E3. The new open-world action-adventure game is called Watch Dogs, and development of the title is being led by Ubisoft Montreal, with a team comprised of industry veterans from blockbuster franchises like Assassin’s Creed®, Rainbow 6® and Far Cry™.  Watch Dogs blends cutting-edge technologies and sophisticated game design into a realistic and living open world where players must use any means at their disposal to take down a corrupt system. Read the rest of this entry »