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Multiplatform deployer of interactive entertainment TransGaming Inc. announced today that it has expanded GameTree™ TV, TransGaming’s premier on-demand Smart TV gaming platform, to support set-top boxes based on the MIPS® architecture from MIPS Technologies. MIPS Technologies is the leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for the global set-top box market, with its processors shipping in more than 75% of set-top boxes worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadians and new GoPayment users in the U.S. can soon easily accept credit cards on a mobile device with the GoPayment app and a newly-designed, free credit card reader. Intuit Inc. has announced that it plans to take its free GoPayment mobile credit card app and card reader hardware global, with the first implementation in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Teradici, developer of the PC-over-IP® (PCoIP®) protocol that enables a true PC experience for desktop virtualization, today announced its participation at the 2012 International CES. Teradici will be showcasing a joint technology demonstration with Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), highlighting the performance and efficiency of both the OMAP4460 smart multicore processor and Teradici PCoIP protocol. Read the rest of this entry »

TuneCore has launched its industry changing flat fee, keep all your rights, get 100% of the revenues global music distribution service in Canada. Using TuneCore’s new Canadian site, all Canadian artists can get their music to fans worldwide via distribution into iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and more. The Canadian site, which is available exclusively to Canadian artists, is priced in domestic currency and features no currency conversion on domestic sales. Read the rest of this entry »

Clickfree™, the inventors of effortless automatic computer backup, announced that their new downloadable software, available for download from their website, will be free during Consumer Electronics Show. To get a free Personal Edition of the software, use coupon code CESFREE during the checkout process on Clickfree’s website. Read the rest of this entry »

Chinese technology innovator TCL Corporation and Montreal-based 3D image processing pioneer SENSIO Technologies Inc. have announced the signing of a letter of intent to work together towards the integration of the SENSIO® Hi-Fi 3D technology in TCL 3DTVs. Sales of TCL LCD TV sets totalled 7.464 million in 2010 and the company is the number one TV brand in China today. Read the rest of this entry »

ViXS Systems Inc. has announced that it will be showcasing a wide array of new technologies, designs and consumer products at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this January 10 – 13, 2012.  This showcase will include innovative media processing, patented transcodng technologies, new Blu-Ray/Media Hubs, broadcast/infrastructure solutions, n-screen/Multi-screen products, latest Set-Top Boxes (STB), advanced conditional access (CA)/Digital Rights Management (DRM), Smart XCode™ streaming and MoCA combo networking devices. Read the rest of this entry »

Absolute^®Software Corporation a leading provider of firmware-embedded endpoint security and management solutions, announced today it will be showcasing new functionality in Absolute Manage 6.1 at CES, including AbsoluteSafe, an app that provides organizations with granular control over corporate data stored on an iOS device. Read the rest of this entry »

Visa Inc. and Visa Europe have announced that NFC-enabled smartphones from Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Research In Motion (RIM) have been certified for use with Visa’s mobile application for payments at the point-of-sale, Visa payWave. The Samsung Galaxy SII, LG Optimus NET NFC, BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900, BlackBerry Bold 9790, BlackBerry® Curve™ 9360 and BlackBerry Curve 9380 have been added to the list of Visa compliant payment products available for commercial deployment by financial institutions. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto’s SecureKey Technologies has announced that Intel Corporation will utilize SecureKey’s authentication technology as part of Intel® Identity Protection Technology (IPT) beginning on Ultrabook devices with third generation Intel® Core™ technology (code named “Ivy Bridge”).  The agreement provides SecureKey with an opportunity to greatly expand the number of devices that will be preconfigured to support SecureKey’s authentication, identity and payment solutions. Read the rest of this entry »