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New from publisher Loud Crow Interactive and developer Rival Schools is The Great Sasquatch, the second standalone storybook app in the three interactive storybook apps series for Bramble Berry Tales. The story is available now on iTunes and Google Play for $2.99. Each ‘book’ in the series is based on a unique story from different Indigenous tribes. Read the rest of this entry »

Popular social relationship platform Hootsuite achieved key milestones in the third quarter of 2013. New Enterprise customers added to HootSuite’s roster of top brands in Q3 include Fujifilm Holdings Corporation, Siemens PLC, and Australian Red Cross, as well as 133 other brands. This brings the total number of Enterprise customers at HootSuite to more than 1000, while the total number of global users increased to almost eight million. Read the rest of this entry »

Popular social relationship platform HootSuite, along with social analytics and intelligence company Brandwatch have announced a strategic partnership and in-depth product integration designed to offer customers a comprehensive social listening and engagement solution to manage social media across the enterprise. This new solution strengthens the ability of enterprises to develop social relationships by combining Brandwatch’s advanced listening and social business intelligence capabilities with HootSuite’s extensive engagement and publishing functionality to form a unified user experience. Read the rest of this entry »

International developer Superhippo gives buccaneers and aspiring sea captains a new reason to set sail, announcing today that Pirate Legends is available for free on iOS devices. Traverse the Seven Seas as you fend off attacks from the British navy, cannibal tribes and even the undead. For a limited time, download Pirate Legends for free from the iTunes App Store. Read the rest of this entry »

Hollywood next-generation production company Hooked Digital Media has premiered Haunting Melissa, a horror story shot in Calgary. The mobile movie is now available exclusively on iTunes for iOS devices – the first chapter is a free download. Designed specifically for a new generation of connected viewers, Haunting Melissa reinvents storytelling to engage audiences and keep them on the edge of their seats. The Haunting Melissa App takes viewers into the world of Melissa, a teenage girl who believes her recently deceased mother is haunting her. Read the rest of this entry »

Aegis Mobility, a Burnaby-based developer of solutions to prevent distracted driving, announced today that it has created the industry’s first safe driving solution for Apple’s iOS operating system that provides policy enforcement. Apple’s iOS operating system presents unique characteristics for enterprise applications. It is well understood and accepted that such characteristics have, up until now, presented challenges for safe driving policy enforcement. Read the rest of this entry »

Print textbook pages come to life with today’s launch of Pearson BouncePages. Now available on any mobile app store, this free app allows parents, teachers, and students to instantly launch interactive instructional content directly from a textbook page. The app was developed in collaboration with Layar, an international developer of mobile augmented reality and interactive print media with an office in Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »

Peterborough UK carrier and technology resilient bonded internet connections supplier Evolving Networks has announced a partnership with Vancouver-based Multapplied Networks to add to their established product set of bonded connectivity solutions. Bonded connectivity is designed to improve both network performance and resilience by combining multiple internet connections to form a single line, allowing users to benefit from the network resilience and aggregated throughput capacities of different technologies all through a single IP address. The popularity of bonded access has been, and continues to become, increasingly popular across the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Statistics indicate that 1 in 5 people will develop a mental health issue. Mental illness occurs within all ages, education and income levels, cultures and religions. Will it affect your loved one, friend, student, client, employee, co-worker or you? Susan Yeo and Lori Veltkamp are co-founders of Power of 3, a company whose goal is to inspire good mental health and wellness through education, empowerment and energy.  With over 35 years between them in the community mental health field in Ontario, Susan and Lori have been providing support and education to countless individuals and their families. Read the rest of this entry »

TELUS and Stingray Digital are bringing the fun of karaoke right into living rooms with The Karaoke Channel TV app on Optik TV. All Optik TV customers can access an on-demand library of more than 8,000 high-quality karaoke videos in the style of today’s top-charting artists and yesterday’s legends. Songs will be added regularly so you you’ll always find new songs to sing. Read the rest of this entry »