Village Gamer

Automated Capacity Control Software provider CiRBA Inc. has announced that it will participate in a live Webcast on October 24, 2013 at 1 p.m. ET entitled “Internal Cloud Management: Bringing Order from Chaos.” This one-hour roundtable will be moderated by Barb Goldworm, president and chief analyst, FOCUS, LLC and will include Jo Maitland, research director at GigaOM Research and 15-year veteran of the IT industry, and Andrew Hillier, CiRBA’s co-founder and CTO, who has nearly 20 years of experience in the creation and implementation of mission-critical software for global organizations. Read the rest of this entry »

Peterborough UK carrier and technology resilient bonded internet connections supplier Evolving Networks has announced a partnership with Vancouver-based Multapplied Networks to add to their established product set of bonded connectivity solutions. Bonded connectivity is designed to improve both network performance and resilience by combining multiple internet connections to form a single line, allowing users to benefit from the network resilience and aggregated throughput capacities of different technologies all through a single IP address. The popularity of bonded access has been, and continues to become, increasingly popular across the world. Read the rest of this entry »

TigerDirect.ca has a feast in store for Canadians. To mark the opening of their first retail store in Markham, TigerDirect.ca will be throwing a 10^th Anniversary Event in Canada from October 18-24, 2013. This will be the perfect opportunity for Canadians to update their gear, or get Black Friday-sized deals for holiday gifts early from TigerDirect.ca. The celebration will be honored in the brick-and-mortar locations, as well as on the retailer’s website. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) reminds stakeholders that they are invited to attend one of the focus groups that are part of the CMF’s cross-country consultation. Stakeholders can quickly and easily register online.  By registering, stakeholders can help the CMF plan the meetings according to expected attendance. This month, focus groups are being held in Montreal, Ottawa, and in the Eastern provinces. The 2013 consultation tour wraps-up in Iqaluit on November 14th. Please note that the English focus group in Moncton scheduled for October 24 has been cancelled. Read the rest of this entry »

Hootsuite has just announced that Ken Mandel has joined the team as Managing Director of Asia Pacific (APAC). Ken is an experienced sales and digital advertising leader in APAC and he brings a wide range of enterprise innovation and executive leadership experience to HootSuite. Ken is now responsible for HootSuite’s regional growth strategy and rapid expansion with Enterprise customers. Prior to joining HootSuite, Mandel was Managing Director, Salesforce Marketing Cloud for APAC, and before that he was Buddy Media’s first hire in the region. Mandel led Buddy Media’s growth in the region until it was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

TELUS and Stingray Digital are bringing the fun of karaoke right into living rooms with The Karaoke Channel TV app on Optik TV. All Optik TV customers can access an on-demand library of more than 8,000 high-quality karaoke videos in the style of today’s top-charting artists and yesterday’s legends. Songs will be added regularly so you you’ll always find new songs to sing. Read the rest of this entry »

Millennials may not be the entitled “me” generation after all. A new survey from intuit Canada shows that they embody a bold new entrepreneurial spirit that is remaking the Canadian economy. The survey, conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion, found that Millennials – defined as those born between 1980 and 1995 – are twice as likely as the Canadian average to want to start a business in the next 12 months. Read the rest of this entry »

Intelligent broadband network solutions provider for fixed and mobile operators Sandvine has announced that it will demonstrate a completely virtualized Network Policy Control system in an OpenStack framework at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Frankfurt, Germany.  Sandvine is the first Network Policy Control provider to demonstrate this technology. Read the rest of this entry »

SecureKey has announced that the company has completed the transfer of its hardware security token group to newly founded Kili Technology Corporation. Afshin Rezayee, formerly vice president of hardware engineering at SecureKey, will lead Kili Technology, and along with the rest of the hardware engineering team will form the core of the new company. Kili Technology was founded by SecureKey Chairman Greg Wolfond with funding from Toronto-based Blue Sky Capital. Read the rest of this entry »

A new report from Research And Markets takes a global look at the state of gaming on mobile platforms – ie. smartphones, tablets and handheld consoles – in terms of technology and device shipments, and in terms of usage which has been heavily influenced by innovations in interactivity and gameplay.  Nomad Gaming – A New Era for Video Games? also explores the market from an industrial standpoint, against a backdrop of OS and app store wars, and takes a look at its economics, detailing the latest trends, success stories and wining business models. Lastly, the insight provides market forecasts up to 2016. Read the rest of this entry »