17th
July
2013
Privatis Technology Corporation, an innovator of a sophisticated privacy protection suite offering anonymous communications supported by unsurpassed robocall and scammer blocking technologies, has opened its worldwide headquarters in Vancouver’s vibrant and historic Gastown. Since 2010, Privatis has powered Privacy Shield™ for AutoTrader.com and is available to all U.S. subscribers on the site boasting 16 million unique monthly visitors. Privatis CEO Steven J. McAuley, a veteran auto sector executive, identified a growing industry problem and led a team of technologists to create the Secure Messaging™ suite of proprietary products to support online classified ad sites and marketplaces and founded the Canadian Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC). Read the rest of this entry »
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17th
July
2013
Ottawa’s Mediagator has announced the launch of their flagship mobile app Gnow.it on the popular crowdfunding site Indiegogo in an effort to raise $30,000. Gnow.it is a news reading app powered by artificial intelligence that promises automated personalization in order to provide a unique reading experience for each of its end users. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Digital Products, fundraisers, National News, New Releases By: Tami | Print This Post
17th
July
2013
DebitWay’s Corporate Blog has reported about a game being developed by Concordia’s Critical Hit Summer Program that focuses on educating gamers about the making of weaponry to highlight how profiteering works and show the world that more guns don’t mean the end of world problems. The game, tentatively called Gun Factory, is a part of a four-game project by the same program and is being developed by recent graduate Mehrdad Dehdashti. The gamer portrays the role of the factory owner and is responsible for all the decisions made. Read the rest of this entry »
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17th
July
2013
Digital commerce company Elastic Path Software has announced the immediate availability of Commerce Engine 6.7 and Cortex 1.7, the world’s most powerful software for monetizing digital customer experiences. Read the rest of this entry »
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17th
July
2013
Scribendi has launched new self-publishing and e-book publishing services to help authors achieve their dreams—no matter what they’ve written or which publishing route they’ve chosen. The new services include e-book editing, e-book proofreading, and e-book formatting and expand on Scribendi’s current manuscript service offering, which helps authors get their books published via the traditional route. Read the rest of this entry »
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17th
July
2013
The Thinking Skills Club, an after school activity that uses online games as a way of tuning up children’s cognitive gears, has created a YouTube video giving an overview of the site itself and how it works. Using Snow Line, a game in the Executive Function section of the site, club founder Mitch Moldofsky leads a virtual tour that includes playing the game, demonstrating how the “brain puzzles” that track a child’s progress are built, and even linking up to research about the supporting skills that underlie the choice of games. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Digital Products, Education, Educational, Everyone, National News By: Tami | Print This Post
17th
July
2013
Enterprise electronic signature solutions developer Silanis Technology has announced the launch of version 9.5 of its cloud e-signing solution, e-SignLive™. This release sees the addition of Dutch, French and Spanish user interface forms and prompts to the existing English interface, allowing signers and senders to choose their preferred language. This means that the benefits of e-signing now extend to a broader audience, allowing all participants in the e-signing transaction to sign in their language of choice. Thirty six countries electronically sign documents using e-SignLive alone. Today they are using predominantly English but due to an accelerated adoption of e-SignLive in other countries, Silanis has aggressive plans for adding new language support in the upcoming releases. Read the rest of this entry »
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17th
July
2013
Vantrix, a Montreal-based provider of intelligent media delivery solutions to mobile network operators, announced the availability of Message Optimizer 12.1, a market-leading solution that optimizes MMS messages sent between mobile devices. Now leveraging the same platform as Vantrix’s flagship product, Bandwidth Optimizer, this new release delivers a number of capability enhancements and a long-term upgrade path to help operators maximize the performance, efficiency and revenue potential of their MMS offerings. Read the rest of this entry »
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17th
July
2013
BlueBat Games, an independent Vancouver studio that helps game developers and casino brands socialize their games on browser-based and mobile platforms, today officially announced its BlueBox Engine. BlueBox is a developer-centric social gamification engine that increases player engagement via proven social gamification strategies and mechanics. Designed from the ground up with online casinos in mind, it enables casino operators to leverage the social network effect and hook players into real life rewards. Read the rest of this entry »
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17th
July
2013
As a thank you to the people who have liked Kensington Communication‘s fan page on Facebook, the producer of the hit History TV educational series Museum Secrets is holding a contest. Like the Kensington Facebook page beforeAugust 8, 2013 to unlock the contest app and gain access to the entry form and prize details. The prize pack includes four episodes each of Museum Secrets (Season 1) and The Sacred Balance with David Suzuki on DVD along with two tickets to both of these Toronto landmarks: The Art Gallery of Ontario and the Royal Ontario Museum. Value of the prize is $175. Please see the Contest Rules for complete information. Read the rest of this entry »
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