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Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) has announced that tomorrow its AMI-tv service will join with CBC in a broadcast first: simulcasting Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada from P.E.I. with Live Description so Canadians who are blind or partially sighted can get in on all the action and more fully enjoy the festivities associated with the highly popular event. Read the rest of this entry »

Skura Corporation proudly announces today that the SKURA SFX solution has surpassed 30,000 users worldwide. Since its launch in 2008 the SKURA SFX sales solution has garnered global acclamation as a world leader in sales enablement technologies. Read the rest of this entry »

Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana Enterprises, Hasbro, Inc. and Toys”R”Us Canada are calling on all metal masters to battle their BEYBLADES for a chance to win exclusive access to the 2012 World BEYBLADE Championship. On Saturday, February 25th, 2012, all Toys”R”Us stores across Canada (excluding Express locations) will host in-store BEYBLADE battle tournaments. The winner from each store will be entered into a random draw to win one of three grand prizes, which include a pair of VIP Golden Tickets, airfare and accommodation to attend the World BEYBLADE Championship taking place Sunday, March 25th, 2012 at Corus Quay in Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »

Rock Hippo Productions announced today its Valentine Day’s plans for the popular free-to-play online multiplayer action game, Brawl Busters.  Starting today players can don amorous outfits to lovingly beat up their opponents, and they will find a smoother gaming experience, when they do, with the all-new game servers.   Read the rest of this entry »

Independent Toronto production company Ready, Set, Panic is entering principal photography on 10-part comedic web series Bill & Sons Towing, featuring top-notch Canadian talent. Set in Hamilton, the series stars the award-winning sketch troupe The Imponderables, named one of Variety’s Top 10 Comics to Watch, as the titular thirty-something sons who take over the family’s floundering tow truck business. Read the rest of this entry »

For Canadian small businesses, accounting and payroll are massive headaches. Recognizing this, and in the spirit of giving Canadian small businesses a break, Kashoo, a Vancouver-based provider of small business cloud accounting software, and PaymentEvolution, a Toronto-based payroll services provider, are teaming up to bring their respective services to Canadian small businesses in one nifty, integrated package. Read the rest of this entry »

Seeking to gain market share and spark country-wide adoption of managed services, N-able Technologies^® has forged a new alliance with Hartco Distribution, a subsidiary of Hartco Inc., a market leader in Canadian information technology (IT) for more than 30 years. Read the rest of this entry »

Catch the Monkey by Mirthwerx has officially launched in the Apple App Store for $0.99 USD. This innovative game bucks the action-game trend of using violence to overcome obstacles. In Catch the Monkey, adorable and curious monkeys invade an elderly farmer’s field. Players help remove them by using a variety of humorous and non-violent tools. Game developer Mirthwerx found this radical approach so conceptually difficult, that it almost didn’t happen. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s InfoLogic, Inc. has released MathMagic Personal Edition 8.0, a major update to their award-winning, professional equation editor for Mac OS X. This version now supports Apple’s new iBooks Author, as well as other iApps, including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Read the rest of this entry »

Staff at Blatant Media Corporation, creators of the award-winning learning management system, Absorb LMS, are happy to announce that they have been awarded Bronze in the Learning Management Technology category of the 2011 Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology for Learning, Talent Management, and Sales and Marketing Awards. Read the rest of this entry »