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Discover, share and live TFO 24.7. Starting today and every day, stop in at this exciting new digital platform for Francophones and Francophiles. Available on all Internet-enabled mobile devices, TFO 24.7 provides a portal onto a wide range of exclusive, up-to-the minute digital content, including discussions, news reports, articles, photos and a video blog. With TFO 24.7, le Groupe Média TFO continues its efforts to optimize its content so as to delight and engage its audiences in French-speaking Ontario and the wider French-speaking world. Read the rest of this entry »

Enflick, the company that developed TextNow, a leading application that provided free phone service over WiFi to more than 18 million users in the U.S. and Canada, has announced it will be using the Sprint network to deliver a new solution using the Novatel Wireless MiFi® technology platform. Called TextNow MiFi, the device gives mobile users reliable wireless broadband connectivity from any location – without the need for WiFi and at the lowest price point available today. TextNow MiFi also comes with a free upgrade to Enflick’s TextNow app with all enhancements – including call forwarding and no ads – as well as 200 free minutes of calling a month. Read the rest of this entry »

PayStudio Inc. has announced the release of new versions of PayStudio Ink and InkPlus apps for businesses which wish to include a mobile-friendly PayPal checkout experience and make purchases easier than ever for their customers. PayStudio Ink and InkPlus iOS apps are easily customizable and feature-rich mobile applications enabling invoicing and logistics anywhere you go. With the new PayPal Checkout option, businesses can now also accept payments everywhere and derive all the benefits of a payment solution customers already recognize and trust. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based digital media solutions provider PNI Digital Media announced today it has added access to SkyDrive through its PNI Digital Media Platform, further improving its cloud media integration. SkyDrive is Microsoft’s private cloud technology with over 250 million users. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister for La Francophonie, today joined Dr. Raj Bhatla, Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chief of Staff of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group (The Royal), to launch a new mobile application that will assist Veterans, personnel of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), and members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with operational stress injuries (OSIs). The app, called OSI Connect, provides information and assistance for people living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, substance abuse and other types of OSIs, as well as their family members. Read the rest of this entry »

Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, participated in today’s launch of the Government of Canada’s much-anticipated next-generation Open Data Portal, which will provide unprecedented access to government data and information. Immigration data is already the most sought information on the Open Data Portal. In fact, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has the six most downloaded datasets on the Portal. These datasets include information about Canada’s immigrants’ countries of origin, preferred immigration programs, settlement patterns as well as application inventories and processing times. Read the rest of this entry »

Recreationalists and resource professionals looking for an easier way to explore B.C.’s wilderness can now leave their fold-out maps at home. GeoBC has created a series of free, high-resolution topographical maps specifically designed for viewing on mobile devices. GeoBC’s popular Terrain Resource Information Management (TRIM) base map series has been redesigned to enable the GPS georeferencing functionality associated with mobile devices and allow users to zoom into small areas of the new maps without compromising detail. Over 7,000 free maps covering the entire province of British Columbia (at a scale of 1:20,000) are now available as downloadable PDF files through GeoBC’s Base Map Online Store or through its popular KML viewer (with TIFF versions coming soon). Read the rest of this entry »

California connected health & fitness developer Fitbit has announced the national Canadian launch of its best-selling products. For the first time, Fitbit’s wearable health devices, including the popular Fitbit One clip, the newly released Fitbit Flex wristband and its wireless scale will be available at Best Buy Canada, Future Shop and London Drugs stores across the country and online with other major retailers, including Sport Chek joining later this summer. This launch brings the full line of Fitbit products to the Canadian retail market, giving consumers the chance to try out the full Fitbit product line and the new Fitbit Flex Activity + Sleep Wristband—the first and only wristband activity tracker available with Bluetooth 4.0 for real-time syncing, making it the perfect way to fit fitness into a busy, on-the-go lifestyle. Read the rest of this entry »

After an award-winning inaugural year since its launch, AUX Magazine is excited to celebrate the first anniversary by announcing its expanded availability, now on Android. Kicking off with the June 2013 anniversary issue featuring The National, the expansion to Android means users on a variety of devices can access the digital magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

I also tweeted from the Banff World Media Festival session yesterday where the Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced the official launch of a new website dedicated to information on crowdfunding. Read the rest of this entry »