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Kobo has announced that its Kobo Writing Life (KWL) self-publishing platform now offers advanced features that enable authors to easily create eBooks and edit their work directly within the KWL text editor. Since its launch in July of last year, KWL has attracted more than 17,600 authors who have published more than 100,000 titles available in 184 countries and in 54 languages. New KWL features enable authors to create eBooks directly within the KWL platform, avoiding time-consuming conversion processes when editing their work. Read the rest of this entry »

There are some things in this world that just belong together. The merger of Save.ca and Flyerland.ca is one such example. The enhanced offerings on the re-launched Save.ca are taking online couponing and flyers from fad to phenomenon, from cheap to savvy. The new Save.ca has the most comprehensive online savings from flyers and coupons – and it was designed with the shopper in mind so it’s easy to find savings, right at your fingertips when it’s convenient for you. Read the rest of this entry »

Denny’s Canada is excited to announce the launch of their new loyalty and rewards program – MyDenny’s, a new social, loyalty platform connecting me, you & Denny’s. It’s definitely not just a loyalty program in the dictionary sense of the term. It offers mobile rewards, exclusive offers, and is a social platform all-in-one. Read the rest of this entry »

Sierra Wireless has announced its AirPrime® EM7305 embedded wireless module has been selected and integrated into the Toshiba Portégé Z10t – a high-performance, Windows 8, compact Ultrabook that is equipped with a removable “tablet screen” for the utmost convenience in portable computing. The Toshiba Portégé Z10t with AirPrime EM7305 launched in June on the Telstra network in Australia. Read the rest of this entry »

Secure digital media management company YANGAROO Inc. has announced a partnership with Los Angeles-based RAMP (Radio and Music Pros), a prominent music industry trade publication. This alliance will now provide the industry in the U.S. expanded access to YANGAROO’s Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) platform to deliver music to radio, and other destinations as well as the ability to deliver music videos to all major national and regional television broadcasters in North America. This partnership will also provide DMDS with the most comprehensive radio lists available, setting a new standard for radio distribution of promotional music. Read the rest of this entry »

Univa data centre automation company and developer of Grid Engine has announced a partnership with Hadoop technology leader MapR Technologies to integrate Univa Grid Engine with the MapR enterprise platform. The partnership enables customers to leverage the MapR Distribution for Hadoop in conjunction with Univa Grid Engine capabilities of policy control management and infrastructure sharing to run mixed workloads with insightful enterprise reporting and analytics. Read the rest of this entry »

British Columbia representatives are in the spotlight as tens of thousands of participants converge on Anaheim for SIGGRAPH 2013, the place to be if you work with computer graphics and interactive technologies. B.C. is preparing to host SIGGRAPH 2014, the 40th anniversary edition of the influential event next year in Vancouver, which became the first location to host SIGGRAPH North America outside of the United States in 2011. That event welcomed 15,872 artists, research scientists, game developers, filmmakers and researchers from 74 countries. SIGGRAPH 2011 broke the city’s previous conference attendance records and, according to the Vancouver Convention Centre, generated an estimated $38.5 million in direct spending for the local economy. Read the rest of this entry »

Global web hosting provider PEER 1 Hosting has announced a strategic alliance with Dell Inc. to deliver cloud services in Canada. As the newest addition to Dell’s recently announced public cloud partner program, PEER 1 Hosting will service the critical Canadian market and help Dell provide its customers with choice and best-in-breed capabilities. Read the rest of this entry »

Business services agency LaunchRaft launched last week with the mission to help entrepreneurs and small business owners get off the ground quickly by providing online tools that facilitate the important step of registering a business correctly and efficiently. The founders of the Toronto-based company are experienced business professionals who have worked with some of Canada’s leading business organizations. Ultimately however, it was the exciting path of entrepreneurship that convinced the founders of LaunchRaft to strike out on their own; they quickly realized that the skills they had developed over the last several years could be leveraged to help new business owners make a smooth launch. Read the rest of this entry »

Research And Markets offers the 7th edition of Video Game Watch (Quarterly) With Unmetered Analyst Support and 3-Hour Consulting Services subscription, a service that provides users with a unique way to keep track of the latest developments in a video game industry on the brink of massive change. Delivering analysis of growth engines, core market trends and how the key players are positioned, along with volume and revenue growth forecasts up to 2017. The service’s database represents the combined expertise of a team of senior consultants who have been producing top-flight analysis of the world’s video game markets for 15 years. Among other things, it enables users to obtain a clear perspective on the latest trends shaping all of the video game sectors around the globe. Read the rest of this entry »