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The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced that 17 interactive digital media projects received a total of $12.1M in funding as part of the first round of production support from the Experimental Stream.  The Experimental Stream encourages the creation of innovative, interactive digital media content and software applications. Read the rest of this entry »

RBC has announced its RBC Secure Cloud mobile payments service (patent-pending). This new technology, a first in Canada, will allow clients to more safely and securely pay for purchases using their mobile devices. Keeping sensitive client data secure with RBC in the cloud, not on the phone, makes RBC Secure Cloud a safer, faster, more flexible solution. RBC will bring RBC Secure Cloud to market by the end of the year with debit and credit on a number of smartphone platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Privatis Technology Corporation, an innovator of a sophisticated privacy protection suite offering anonymous communications supported by unsurpassed robocall and scammer blocking technologies, has opened its worldwide headquarters in Vancouver’s vibrant and historic Gastown. Since 2010, Privatis has powered Privacy Shield™ for AutoTrader.com and is available to all U.S. subscribers on the site boasting 16 million unique monthly visitors. Privatis CEO Steven J. McAuley, a veteran auto sector executive, identified a growing industry problem and led a team of technologists to create the Secure Messaging™ suite of proprietary products to support online classified ad sites and marketplaces and founded the Canadian Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC). Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa’s Mediagator has announced the launch of their flagship mobile app Gnow.it on the popular crowdfunding site Indiegogo in an effort to raise $30,000. Gnow.it is a news reading app powered by artificial intelligence that promises automated personalization in order to provide a unique reading experience for each of its end users. Read the rest of this entry »

Digital commerce company Elastic Path Software has announced the immediate availability of Commerce Engine 6.7 and Cortex 1.7, the world’s most powerful software for monetizing digital customer experiences. Read the rest of this entry »

Scribendi has launched new self-publishing and e-book publishing services to help authors achieve their dreams—no matter what they’ve written or which publishing route they’ve chosen. The new services include e-book editing, e-book proofreading, and e-book formatting and expand on Scribendi’s current manuscript service offering, which helps authors get their books published via the traditional route. Read the rest of this entry »

The Thinking Skills Club, an after school activity that uses online games as a way of tuning up children’s cognitive gears, has created a YouTube video giving an overview of the site itself and how it works. Using Snow Line, a game in the Executive Function section of the site, club founder Mitch Moldofsky leads a virtual tour that includes playing the game, demonstrating how the “brain puzzles” that track a child’s progress are built, and even linking up to research about the supporting skills that underlie the choice of games. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise electronic signature solutions developer Silanis Technology has announced the launch of version 9.5 of its cloud e-signing solution, e-SignLive™. This release sees the addition of Dutch, French and Spanish user interface forms and prompts to the existing English interface, allowing signers and senders to choose their preferred language. This means that the benefits of e-signing now extend to a broader audience, allowing all participants in the e-signing transaction to sign in their language of choice. Thirty six countries electronically sign documents using e-SignLive alone. Today they are using predominantly English but due to an accelerated adoption of e-SignLive in other countries, Silanis has aggressive plans for adding new language support in the upcoming releases. Read the rest of this entry »

Vantrix, a Montreal-based provider of intelligent media delivery solutions to mobile network operators, announced the availability of Message Optimizer 12.1, a market-leading solution that optimizes MMS messages sent between mobile devices. Now leveraging the same platform as Vantrix’s flagship product, Bandwidth Optimizer, this new release delivers a number of capability enhancements and a long-term upgrade path to help operators maximize the performance, efficiency and revenue potential of their MMS offerings. Read the rest of this entry »

BlueBat Games, an independent Vancouver studio that helps game developers and casino brands socialize their games on browser-based and mobile platforms, today officially announced its BlueBox Engine. BlueBox is a developer-centric social gamification engine that increases player engagement via proven social gamification strategies and mechanics. Designed from the ground up with online casinos in mind, it enables casino operators to leverage the social network effect and hook players into real life rewards. Read the rest of this entry »