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Exequor Studios, the creators of Con Sonar, the first ever board game with an official smart phone app extension, officially released Game Crafter Mashup Contest finalist Slash! earlier today. The studio is very excited to rapidly follow through with a second board game featuring bgX technology. They truly believe this technology brings a refreshing new angle to the classic board game experience and they’re looking forward to bringing you even more bgX-enhanced board games in the future. Read the rest of this entry »

Bell Media Digital celebrates the warmth and joy of the holiday season by bringing jolly ol’ St. Nick to life for children with an amazingly authentic, free, personalized video message from Magic Santa. The enchantment begins on November 20th when, for the fourth year in a row, parents and caregivers can quickly and easily enter information into the simple user interface to create and personalize a charming holiday message that magically includes a child’s name, photo and home town or province. Read the rest of this entry »

Peanuts Worldwide and Loud Crow Interactive Inc., today announced a multi-year partnership to produce a series of interactive digital book apps based on the popular PEANUTS animated television specials. The first title launching today is “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” is available now for iOS and Android mobile devices. In this re-telling of the iconic Christmas classic, the book features original animations, voices, and musical scores from the 1965 television special. The narrator is Peter Robbins, the original voice of Charlie Brown. Other digital books such as “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” will follow in 2012 and beyond. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenText™ has announced OpenText Tempo, a fast, easy and secure document sharing solution that allows enterprise users to share and manage content in secure folders on smartphones, tablets, and PCs or laptops.  Beginning in January 2012, OpenText Tempo will allow users to access, share and modify content while it is instantly and automatically synchronized across all of their computers and mobile devices.  Read the rest of this entry »

Trend Micro threat researchers are seeing a significant shift from mass compromises to targeted attacks, particularly against large enterprises and government institutions. According to Trend Micro’s Third Quarter Threat Report, their work led them to the uncovering of one of the most notable groups of targeted attacks during the third quarter – the LURID downloader. Read the rest of this entry »

Multichannel newspaper and magazine content distributor NewspaperDirect Inc. has released PressReader for Android for the newest hot tablet from Amazon: the Amazon Fire. When the Amazon Fire ships tomorrow, users will be able to activate the Fire’s built-in Amazon Appstore app to download PressReader and start reading complete digital replicas of their favorite newspapers from around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Real car advice for people who drive real cars – that’s the core of Test Drive, an exciting new digital magazine launched today by the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) and the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC), and produced by Totem Communications Group. Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa’s Rove will be offering demonstrations of its award-winning mobile IT management solution, Mobile Admin, to CA Technologies users during CA World 2011, which opens today at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Mobile Admin supports CA Service Desk Manager on Blackberry devices, iOS devices for iPhone and iPad and Android smartphones and tablets. Read the rest of this entry »

OpinCity is an app designed by Waterloo’s Pure And Noble, Inc. for locals to better discover their city. It’s a location based service (LBS) app that uses the GPS on your iOS and Android device to deliver time sensitive, and close-by results. It may be a concert, a Tuesday night wing special, or a neighbour’s snowblower for sale. The user is in control of the things they see, and it’s always around the corner. The app is available for download in Apple Inc.’s Canadian App Store and will be available soon in  Google’s Android Market following shortly after. Read the rest of this entry »

The assignment: create a solution for multiple smart phone platforms that will make the daily commute easier for people across the GTA. The challenge: it not only has to be functional but will go live for GO Transit’s 217,000 daily passengers. This might seem like a daunting task, but for six Ryerson University computer science students and a recent Ryerson grad, this kind of assignment has been the norm ever since they accepted research positions in Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) last year. Read the rest of this entry »