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MediaSmarts (formerly known as Media Awareness Network) is pleased to announce it has partnered with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) for the third phase of its landmark research study, Young Canadians in a Wired World. Read the rest of this entry »

The board of directors of Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. announced late yesterday that its President and Executive Producer, Catherine Winder will leave the company effective June 30, 2012 in order to pursue other business opportunities. Read the rest of this entry »

Southpaw Technology, a Toronto-area developer of production asset management (PAM) technology for digital content creation companies, announced today that it has signed a 100-seat licensing deal with the Korean visual effects studio, Dexter Digital. Southpaw’s production asset management system TACTIC will initially be used to support Dexter Digital on a 2,000-shot visual effects project for an ambitious, full-length stereoscopic 3D film called Mr. Go 3D. Read the rest of this entry »

Conquer Mobile, a Vancouver-based developer of secure enterprise iPad apps, will be hosting a roundtable debate on the topic of ‘Native App, Mobile Web or Hybrid?’. The event will take place in downtown Vancouver on June 28th, at the Wavefront Commercialization Centre from 5-7pm. Read the rest of this entry »

Wishpond has launched their new cross-platform offers application with a bang, with Canada’s largest yoga company YYoga using Social Offers to create an incredibly successful promotion for the opening of their new studio location. Read the rest of this entry »

TheKidScoop.com has announced that they will be expanding West into other Canadian cities including Vancouver and Calgary this summer, offering Canadian parents a searchable database of hyper-local kids activities, events, content and family friendly deals. Read the rest of this entry »

Honeycomb Creative Solutions has announced the addition of a Business App Development Division to its print and web communications firm. To promote the new division and the services it offers, Honeycomb Creative Solutions launched Honeycomb Apps.
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Vancouver’s Strangeloop Networks has announced the release of its newest innovation – the Strangeloop Network Accelerator – a service that gives network operators and telecommunications providers the ability to deliver a powerful performance boost for site owners, accelerating web content by at least 100 percent. Read the rest of this entry »

After a successful showing at E3 that saw Ubisoft® take home more than 100 awards, the company has provided updated release dates for some of its biggest titles being launched during the 2012 holiday season. Along with these new release dates, Ubisoft also is reaffirming its previously communicated financial guidance for 2012-13. Read the rest of this entry »

The steady shift in consumer preferences toward electronic information sources has gone beyond print media and is now taking its toll on demand for paper to produce books. As a result of this waning demand in North America, combined with ongoing turmoil in the world economy, Canada’s paper products industry faces a weak outlook in the next few years, according to The Conference Board of Canada‘s Spring 2012 outlook for the industry. Read the rest of this entry »