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On March 9, The Toronto Tempest, Canada’s first independent politics and culture tablet magazine will launch. While major publications like The New Yorker, Wired, and Vanity Fair have innovated successfully in the tablet space, The Tempest will be this country’s first politics and culture tablet magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

T4G Limited, a full-service, project-based IT services company, is pleased to announce its game changing EnCenter tool that can save organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars by helping identify and reduce waste energy. EnCenter separates itself from standard energy management information systems (EMIS) with its ease of use in not only monitoring consumption but pinpointing waste and predicting future consumption patterns through performance modelling. Read the rest of this entry »

Coachable, the powerful coaching tool from SlippySoft Inc., is guaranteed to cause sports coaches to ditch their dry erase boards en masse with the new features that take this app to the next level. Coachable is an innovative coaching app for iPad devices and is available in three versions – Coachable Hockey, Coachable Soccer, and Coachable Basketball – and allows coaches (even the armchair kind) to quickly sketch plays in seconds using Coachable’s tap-and-draw interface. Read the rest of this entry »

esDot Development Studio has announced the release of PicShop – Photo Editor, now available for iPhone. This $1.99 USD app includes all the power of the studio’s popular PicShop HD Editor ($4.99 USD), but is optimized for iPhone and iPod touch. PicShop offers a 60hz User Interface created with Adobe AIR, and designed after Android 4.0, giving iOS users a taste of Android ICS. Read the rest of this entry »

The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre and Shiseido (Canada) Inc. are pleased to announce the inaugural Toronto Japanese Film Festival (TJFF), a two week showcase of the best of Japanese contemporary cinema in Toronto from June 7 to 21, 2012. With the support of its industry sponsor Alliance Films Inc., TJFF acts as a forum to connect Toronto audiences, Japanese filmmakers, industry professionals and supporters. Read the rest of this entry »

Security installers and home owners can now add Smart Home Monitoring features and optional Internet based monitoring to their new or existing DSC® Powerseries alarm systems with the new Envisalink 2DS from Eyez-On Corporation, available in Canada through Aartech Canada Inc. Envisalink users can check on their systems any time and can arm or disarm their alarm using Internet enabled smart phones including iPhones, Android phones and Blackberry phones. Read the rest of this entry »

Klipfolio Inc. has announced a major release for its mobile BI dashboard adding customer requested features and improved application functionality. Included in the release are new data connectors, simplifying retrieving data from Dropbox and allowing for direct access to SQL Databases. In addition to these new features, Klipfolio Dashboard has also improved functionality in key work spaces and on its dashboard view. Read the rest of this entry »

Award winning composer Christopher Lennertz scored additional music for EA Bioware’s newly released Mass Effect 3, the third and final installment in the Mass Effect game series. Lennertz has worked previously with the Mass Effect series, Medal of Honor and Gun. His previous films include Horrible Bosses and Alvin and the Chipmunks. Lennertz just completed scoring the film Think Like A Man, to be released this April. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s a brave new world in publishing these days, and a B.C. mystery author is hoping that a series of highways will transport her murder plots to readers around the globe. With two recently published e-books to her credit, R.E. (Ruth) Donald is working on a third novel in what she calls the Hunter Rayne highway mystery series. Read the rest of this entry »

Sandvine Corporation has announced that its Board of Directors has approved the adoption of a shareholder rights plan. The Rights Plan has been conditionally approved by the Toronto Stock Exchange, subject to shareholder approval at Sandvine’s annual and special meeting of shareholders on April 5, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »