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Canadian Roots Radio, an internet station dedicated to playing Folk, Blues and Roots music announced a launch date of November 1st. Jim Priebe, CFA, President, also said an Indiegogo campaign has been started to raise the funds needed for launch. Read the rest of this entry »

Adcentricity, a location-based marketing company headquartered in Toronto, has announced the acquisition of Media 2 Go International Inc., a Vaughan-based company with proprietary patent pending Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-based proximity marketing technology. With the newly acquired technology, Adcentricity has added the capability of broadcasting multimedia promotional content directly to any Wi-Fi or Bluetooth enabled mobile device. The new feature called ADAir will add to Adcentricity’s already robust location-based digital media management platform ADCentral. Read the rest of this entry »

Allstream, Canada’s all-business communications provider, is proud to announce the launch of its Managed Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization service. Allstream’s Managed WAN Optimization service will accelerate existing key applications and free bandwidth for the installation of more applications and services. Read the rest of this entry »

What happens when telepathic paramedic Toby Logan (Craig Olejnik) suddenly loses his telepathic abilities and his wisecracking EMS partner Oz (Ennis Esmer) gains them? That’s the premise of Switch, an exclusive digital-only series spun off the hit original series The Listener. Read the rest of this entry »

John Helliker, director of Sheridan’s Screen Industries Research and Training Centre, (SIRT) will join Avatar producer Jon Landau and a panel of international award-winning cinema leaders for a discussion on the future of high frame rate (HFR) cinema at the SIGGRAPH 2012 conference in Los Angeles on August 8^th, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Returning this summer by popular demand, the Fido Casting Call^™ 2 contest will search for the next dog to star in an upcoming Fido advertisement. Open for submissions across Canada on August 13, Fido Casting Call 2 will support the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides, a non-profit organization that provides Dog Guides to Canadians with disabilities. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved BCE’s proposal to establish a Broadcasting Accessibility Fund. This independent fund will support initiatives to improve access to the Canadian broadcasting system by persons with disabilities. Read the rest of this entry »

Redline Communications Group Inc., a Markham-based provider of broadband wireless solutions for industrial machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, today announced the availability of the RAS Smart Antenna System.  The solid state RAS is the first wireless broadband networking system that instantly locates, steers toward and connects to a network base station, automatically establishing reliable high speed connectivity to and from roving assets. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenText™ has announced that its Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions are the driving technology behind a unique collaborative effort involving newspaper publishers and sports news photography at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Images taken by national press photographers that are part of the National Olympic Photo Pool (NOPP) are being distributed through OpenText’s Content Hub for Publishers (CHP) to dozens of news media outlets within minutes of the action. Read the rest of this entry »

The highly anticipated film Winnie by Darrell Roodt will open the 8th edition of the Montreal International Black Film Festival on September 19th, as a Quebec Premiere. Winnie, a Canadian co-production, produced by Quebec producer Michael Mosca from Equinoxe Films, will kick-start the official competition. Winnie stars Academy and Grammy Awards winner Jennifer Hudson as Winnie Mandela, and Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard as Nelson Mandela. Read the rest of this entry »