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Ottawa-based Rullingnet Corporation, home of VINCI learning solutions for early childhood, recently completed two case studies highlighting the transformation at EnCompass Academy in Oakland and the Cheryl Andersen Child Center in San Francisco brought about by the VINCI blended learning curriculum. The studies demonstrate how the children were excited about, and focused on learning traditionally difficult subjects such as math and science. With VINCI curriculum mapped to teacher’s course plans, they were able to save significant time in preparing their lessons. While children were focused, teachers utilized precious time to observe and give children individual attention. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced a contribution of more than $5.2M in development and marketing support to innovative digital media projects as part of the first round of its 2013-2014 Experimental Stream funding. In July 2013, the CMF announced a contribution of more than $12.1M to 17 projects that received production support. Since 2010, the CMF has contributed $112.3M to 290 interactive digital media projects as part of the Experimental Stream. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) will embark on a cross-country consultation this fall as part of a comprehensive consultation process. The process will comprise a number of components, including focus groups in 18 cities, in all provinces and territories; industry working groups and advisory committees; as well as online consultation. Feedback received from stakeholders will serve to shape CMF policy moving forward as the two-year program guidelines come to an end and new guidelines are developed for 2014-2015 and beyond. Read the rest of this entry »

Real-time bidding (RTB) is revolutionizing digital ads, enabling marketers to reach millions of online consumers across tens of thousands of websites with highly focused content. The challenge is ensuring that those ads only appear on sites that are appropriate to the marketer’s brand. A new case study examines how Australian company Funbox is using the SiteScout self-serve RTB platform to balance split-second media buying decisions with robust brand safety in order to deliver the most impact for online advertisers. The full Funbox case study is available online. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian retailer Rexall has announced the launch of MyRexall, providing its customers with the ability to view and print their personal medication records online. In addition to viewing their medication record, MyRexall will allow customers the ability to request a refill at their local Rexall, print their medication record for review with a physician or other health care professional and easily transfer prescriptions to their local Rexall pharmacy. Read the rest of this entry »

More free games are on the way, courtesy of Games with Gold on Xbox 360. Xbox Live Gold members worldwide can continue building their collection of digital games on Xbox 360 with three new titles, available for free download for a limited time starting yesterday. These titles are available as free downloads for a limited time for qualifying paid Xbox Live Gold members in all markets where Xbox Live is available. The equivalent prices for “Crackdown” and “Dead Rising 2: Case Zero” are applicable to the U.S. market only. The titles are free for Xbox Gold Live members. Some regions may offer different titles depending on market availability – more information is available on Major Nelson’s blog. The August line-up of titles includes: Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite announced yesterday that it has secured an additional $165 million US in capital for its Series B Financing round, in order to continue meteoric growth and dominance as a social relationship platform. The latest deal, representing one of the largest rounds of global venture capital funding, is a co-investment led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from Accel Partners and existing investor, OMERS Ventures. Recently celebrating its 4th birthday, HootSuite pioneered the category of social media management. Today, HootSuite has more than 7 million users in nearly every country around the world who use its secure, social relationship platform for social media management, social marketing, social customer service, and social selling. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile security and risk management solutions provider Fixmo and BlackBerry® have announced plans to bring the Fixmo Sentinel device integrity verification and tamper detection solution to the BlackBerry® 10 platform. Fixmo Sentinel is used today throughout the U.S. Federal Government to meet the Security Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIGs) for mobile device deployments. Today’s announcement expands on a collaborative effort between Fixmo and BlackBerry that began in 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Sprylogics International Corp., an Ontario-based international provider of innovative mobile search and messaging monetization services, has announced that further to the press release of July 17, 2013, the Company has completed the acquisition of Alberta-based mobile local search service provider Poynt Inc. Read the rest of this entry »

Roaring Penguin Software Inc., the email filtering experts and developers of the acclaimed CanIt-PRO, CanIt-Domain-PRO, CanIt Archiver and Hosted CanIt anti-spam and email archiving solutions, are pleased to announce that they will be a Gold Level Sponsor of the upcoming 2013 N-Able Partner Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona. In addition to sponsoring the event, David Skoll, President and CTO of Roaring Penguin will speak to the gathered N-Able MSPs on e-mail security. Read the rest of this entry »