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Nova Scotia’s creative businesses will expand into new markets, create more jobs, and build stronger cultural communities with a new CEO dedicated to growing its economy. Lisa Bugden has been appointed president and CEO of Film and Creative Industries Nova Scotia. Ms. Bugden brings more than 24 years of experience in leadership, public and government affairs, and business development in the public and private sectors. Read the rest of this entry »

Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada) and Astral’s The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) are going Rogue with the debut of their thrilling new original drama. The 10-part, one-hour series stars Thandie Newton as Grace, a morally and emotionally conflicted undercover detective who is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son’s death. The first hour of Rogue is now available as a free sneak peek across multiple platforms, and the series premieres with two back-to-back episodes on Wednesday, April 3 at 9 p.m. ET/MT, day-and-date with DirecTV’s Audience Network in the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »

Kobo has announced its Android™ 4.1 Jelly Bean firmware update for Kobo’s award-winning 7″ Google-certified Kobo Arc tablet. This update optimizes the user experience with faster performance, improved search capabilities, increased touch responsiveness, and additional intelligence features to help organize and streamline information with actionable notifications. The update is now available to Kobo Arc customers when they next connect to Wi Fi. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Tire has opened its new digital development lab in “Silicon Valley North”, joining nearly 1000 companies as the first retail partner in Communitech.  Communitech supports tech companies at all stages of their growth and development — from startups to rapidly growing SMEs, to large global players — in the commercialization of innovative technologies. Read the rest of this entry »

InspiredStream is a new website and media hub offering interactive technology for users to showcase talent, creativity, and anything members find interesting. Sound, video, still images—this website is about showing and sharing and creating the communities of like-minded users. This new website is a digital space where creative, artistic and interesting people can post their work and then tweak it, expand it, and modify it as they want. Read the rest of this entry »

For the student, teacher, paralegal, journalist, or academic researcher, why spend hours re-typing text when the C-pen Digital Highlighter can do it instead? The C-pen works in tandem with Mac (OSX), Windows and Android operating systems (smartphones and tablets). Use the C-pen 3.5 Portable Bluetooth Scanner to make any visit to the library or office more efficient. The C-pen is easy, convenient, and reliable as it seamlessly glides across selected text and inputs it to any software on any compatible device; simply place the cursor where you wish to transfer text/digits to a Google Doc, E-mail, Word Document, Excel, for example. It is a guaranteed time saver. Read the rest of this entry »

Wavefront, Canada’s Centre of Excellence for Wireless Commercialization and Research, in partnership with CRIM, announces the launch of the first mobile device library in the province of Quebec. Based out of CRIM’s applied research centre in Montreal, the Wavefront Device Library offers the mobile developer community unprecedented access to more than 1,000 of the latest and most widely used devices on the market for testing. Read the rest of this entry »

Developers continue to support BlackBerry® 10, bringing more than 30,000 new applications to the platform over the past seven weeks. BlackBerry® has announced that BlackBerry 10 customers now have access to more than 100,000 applications for the BlackBerry® Z10 smartphone on the BlackBerry® World™ storefront. Today, Amazon Kindle, OpenTable and The Wall Street Journal are available to BlackBerry 10 customers and in the coming weeks CNN, The Daily Show Headlines, eBay, eMusic, Maxim, MLB at Bat, MTV News, Pageonce, PGA, Rdio, Skype, Soundhound and Viber will be available for download or purchase. Read the rest of this entry »

Digital Shelf Space Corp. and Spara Acquisition One Corp. are pleased to announce that subject to approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange”) they have entered into a letter of intent (the “LOI”), pursuant to which SAO will subscribe for common shares (the “DSS Shares”) of DSS, which, upon completion, will constitute SAO’s “qualifying transaction” pursuant to the policies of the Exchange. Read the rest of this entry »

Digital security and identity management company Route1 Inc. has released MobiLINK 1.0, an authentication and secure access technology that enables users to securely access internal web-enabled applications and web resources from anywhere in the world. MobiLINK empowers the enterprise with the ability to securely provide internal applications to the mobile workforce. MobiLINK is NOT a VPN-based technology and does not create additional nodes on the enterprise network or open your application to the outside world. Read the rest of this entry »