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Continuing the promise of its five-year strategic plan Everyone, Every Way, CBC has announced that Hamilton will be the home of a new digital service that will put all that the city, and the CBC, has to offer at Hamiltonians’ finger tips, commencing in spring of 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Firmware-embedded endpoint security and management solutions provider Absolute^®Software Corporation has announced the general availability of Absolute Manage 6.0, a product which offers the only single, unified console that natively enables IT administrators to efficiently manage all of their Mac, PC, Android and iOS devices by automating time-consuming IT processes such as software distribution, patch management, and asset inventory.  Read the rest of this entry »

On October 24th, music publisher ole launched its Stop Corporate Music Piracy campaign with a full-page ad in the Ottawa Hill Times. At the same time a companion website ProtectCreativity.ca was unveiled and the message was delivered via posters to all 308 Canadian Members of Parliament. Read the rest of this entry »

Responding to a public need, the Canadian Automobile Association has launched an easy-to-understand guide on how electric, hybrid, and gas vehicles work. Written by two of Canada’s best-known automotive journalists, Gerry Malloy and Marc Lachapelle, Gas, Hybrid, and Electric: What You Need to Know offers simple but complete explanations of the spectrum of engine technologies on the market today. The illustrated eBook format makes the guide easy to navigate – it can be read cover to cover or browsed by section. Read the rest of this entry »

Flowfinity Wireless Inc., a proven provider of enterprise mobile apps based in Vancouver, has announced the general availability of a new service aimed at reducing the IT workload and ramp-up cost often associated with implementing new mobile strategies. Select Fortune 500 customers who have been using the service for mission-critical business process automation deployed their solutions faster and avoided the up-front costs of building and managing in-house infrastructure. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal-based Visual Communications corporation CBCI Telecom has announced that it is embracing its TelePresence Ready Network which was upgraded earlier this year to a MPLS entirely based on fiber optic technology. The TelePresence Ready Network offers the ability for High Definition Quality Video conferencing connections throughout all of CBCI Telecom offices and beyond to its CBCI Video Managed Services client base. Read the rest of this entry »

In a move that makes it easier for customers to manage documents and website content within the SAP NetWeaver® Portal component, SAP AG has expanded its relationship with enterprise content management developer OpenText. The agreement adds two new applications to SAP NetWeaver Portal, which were developed by SAP together with OpenText: the SAP® Portal Content Management application by OpenText, an enterprise solution for managing document-related content; and the SAP® Portal Site Management application by OpenText, a solution helping a broad number of users easily manage Web content. Read the rest of this entry »

Transcontinental Media is pleased to announce the roll-out of The Mega Catch, a group buying site powered by Dealstreet.ca, in Prince Edward Island and in the cities of New Glasgow, Truro and Amherst in Northern Nova Scotia. Based on the group buying model, The Mega Catch offers its subscribers the chance to catch mega deals of at least 50% on selected local products and services. The Mega Catch and its French counterpart La méga prise were first launched by Transcontinental Media in Quebec City and St. John’s back in February. Read the rest of this entry »

In honor of Halloween, Absolute^®Software Corporation, a leading provider of firmware-embedded endpoint security and management solutions, is reminding consumers that the do-it-yourself approach to recovering a stolen laptop can lead to scary situations and encounters with dangerous individuals. Read the rest of this entry »

With Halloween season kicking off this week, Pocket Cocktails has updated its signature iPhone (99 cents) and iPad ($2.99) apps with a spooky collection of new drinks. Pictures are worth a thousand words, and Pocket Cocktails has got boatloads of them, in fact every cocktail in this app has an accompanying photo. So when preparing a Bloody Brain or Eyeball Martini there’s a handy pic to help illustrate how the drink should look as its prepared. The Random Mode turns the phone into a shaker complete with sound effects, a great conversation starter. Read the rest of this entry »