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Calgary’s Poynt Corporation, a provider of mobile local search services, and partner Times Internet Limited, the internet and mobile venture of India’s largest media house – the Times Group, have announced the launch of their mobile local search application, timesPoynt in India. The new App, developed by Poynt Corp. in partnership with TIL, will provide users in India access to the most locally relevant, GPS-enabled service that gives users the power of multiple applications in one intuitive mobile application. Read the rest of this entry »

Your kids have always considered you the expert on everything from monsters under their beds to the best way of getting chewing gum out of their hair. Your friends know just who to call when they’re looking for a great new sushi place, or want to price-check a popular item. Thanks to Field Agent, you can apply your expertise to situations just like these (well, monsters notwithstanding) – and help your household bottom line in the process. Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media Inc. has announced that its subsidiary, Ortsbo Inc. has launched a proprietary real time multi-language plug-in for WordPress, allowing blogs to be instantly translated, in real time, into over 50 languages. Over 300 Million people each month read over 2.5 Billion blog pages created through WordPress, the world’s leading blogging software. To date, there have been over 225 Million downloads of WordPress plug-ins globally. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile application development firm Purple Forge is well known for its work in politics, events and municipal government applications – but today is announcing that it is branching out into the world of the undead with Zombiegram. With Halloween around the corner and this week’s premier of the second season of the popular AMC series “The Walking Dead”, Zombiegram is the ideal way to engage friends on what is shaping up to be the year of the Zombie. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenText™ has announced a new release of OpenText Social Communities (version 8.1), that helps companies promote and drive the shift to a social business model. It accomplishes this by combining a comprehensive social framework with a set of ready-to-deploy applications for quickly building and engaging communities. Read the rest of this entry »

October marks the fifth year iStockphoto has been in the stock video business, and to celebrate, the company is discounting video purchases by 15% from October 17th to 23rd. Reduced advertising budgets and the explosive demand for online video content have allowed the stock video industry to evolve at a highly accelerated pace. Today, iStockphoto’s video library contains nearly 400,000 files, to which a team of more than 6,500 videographers is adding roughly 2,500 files on a weekly basis. Read the rest of this entry »

Moneris Solutions^® has announced the launch of e-Select plus^®Mobile App, offering Canadian merchants the ability to accept credit card payments using their smartphones and capture sales on the go. Merchants can obtain real-time authorization, send email receipts to customers, and generate reports on transaction history through their mobile devices. The bundled card reader accessory plugs into the audio port of the smartphone, allowing credit cards to be swiped for ease-of-use. The Mobile App extends the capabilities of the e-Select plus platform, offering merchants additional convenience and security. Read the rest of this entry »

Ideavibes has announced the release of a new freemium version of its popular Crowd Engagement Platform which helps organizations manage their own crowdsourcing or crowdfunding campaigns to facilitate engagement and tap into the wisdom and power of the online crowd.

The Freemium Edition of the Ideavibes Crowd Engagement Platform, now available, allows customers to run their first crowdsourcing or crowdfunding campaign in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese for up to 45 days. Read the rest of this entry »

American corporation Zoo Entertainment, Inc. has announced that its subsidiary indiePub has formed a partnership with Connecticut-based 5381 Partners to support the release of its Android All-Stars prepaid retail card program, which will be distributed this holiday season to thousands of retail locations in United States and Canada, including Target, Toys R’ Us, Sam’s Club, Rogers Mobile and numerous others. Android All-Stars is being powered by indiePub’s proprietary digital delivery system which includes an Android client that also offers access to other All-Stars Android games. Read the rest of this entry »

ViXS Systems Inc. recently announced that ViXS’ XCode 4000 family of media processors are now being deployed in Toshiba’s latest High Definition (HD) TVs.  The XCode 4000 dual-stream HD to HD transcoding media processing system on chip (SoC) solution is shipping in all Toshiba’s Regza Z3 and ZP3 3D TV LCD models. Read the rest of this entry »