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Guard RFID Solutions Inc., a Vancouver-based developer of 433MHz Active RFID technology has announced the release of its SafeGuard K-12 Safety System, designed to assist personnel in schools to instantly declare Code Red or Code Yellow and automatically notify local staff as well as remote agencies of the threat, and to promptly identify the location from where the alarm was sent. The system can be configured to automatically lock down selective zones within the school in order to secure occupants within vulnerable areas, and to send alerts to staff members equipped with GuardRFID’s bi-directional Staff Badges. Read the rest of this entry »

Conquer Mobile, a Vancouver-based developer of secure, custom mobile apps, announced that they have delivered an innovative mHealth app for GenomeDx Biosciences. The iPad app, UroSketch 3D, provides an interactive 3D model of the male pelvis and is now available for download on the Apple App Store for any iPad or iPad mini running iOS 6. Read the rest of this entry »

Innovative provider of cloud video monitoring service provider Camcloud™ has announced that the company has released a major update to its platform that adds support for leading IP cameras. The combination of Camcloud’s existing support for webcams, its deep integration with the Axis family of IP cameras, and now open support for a large number of H.264 cameras, makes Camcloud the most open cloud video surveillance solution available. While other services support a small number of cameras or require their  own proprietary hardware, Camcloud offers its customers flexibility to use the cameras of their choice. Read the rest of this entry »

Strum is a platform that connects customers directly with local business owners. Strum’s patent-pending architecture makes it super-easy for customers to locate and send messages to their favourite businesses, tag specific employees for great service and send private or public messages to business owners directly. Strum enables customers to earn Strum Points for their activity and use those points to bid on great local goods and services in the Strum Auction. Employees noted for Great Service earn Strum Points too. For businesses, Strum offers a robust, cloud-based tool to engage with the customers that love them, recognize their ‘rock-star’ employees, and give their regular customers more attention and rewards. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian high tech association CATAAlliance has launched an advocacy Campaign to make it easier for ICT suppliers – particularly SMEs – to do business with Government through adopting a more efficient and simpler G-Cloud Store procurement model. The Campaign, known as G-Cloud First for Canada, would help govern the procurement of new or existing services, and it would require public sector organizations to consider and fully evaluate potential Cloud solutions first – before they consider any other option. CATAAlliance cited the U.K., as model for government modernization, and has taken the initiative to invite U.K. thought leaders to share their best practices with officials at Shared Services Canada (SSC), the Canadian department mandated to transform the delivery of services to citizens. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto developer Nexonia has announced integration between its Expense Reports solution and Google Maps for better mileage reporting. Thanks to this seamless integration, when creating a mileage line within an expense report Nexonia users will have a map automatically generated. The distance and mileage rate are also provided automatically. Map generation is available on both web and mobile applications (iOS, Android and BlackBerry 10) and the employee can also edit the distance calculated by Google. Nexonia supports optional odometer tracking, built right into their web and mobile apps. Read the rest of this entry »

Appolicious, named “the most useful of the app search engines,” by the New York Times, along with its educational ranking website, appoLearning, have named two applications by Le Groupe Média TFO: Mini TFO and La Cible, as Top-5 ‘best in class.’  These recognitions place TFO, a multiplatform digital content company, among world leaders in education, where it stands out as the only Canadian producer in any of the French-language categories. The appoLearning website lets parents know which educational apps they should encourage their kids to use, while also detailing the skills that are taught within each recommended application. Read the rest of this entry »

In 2012, The Missing Children Society of Canada (MCSC) introduced The World’s Most Valuable Social Network – the first online search party that allows Canadians to “donate” their Facebook or Twitter newsfeed as a vehicle for raising awareness when a child goes missing. The World’s Most Valuable Social Network has assisted in the safe return of six missing children since its launch, and the tool is expanding to include Pinterest and Foursquare in the search for missing children. Up to 50,000 children are reported missing in Canada every year. Today, leading up to International Missing Children’s Day (May 25^th), MCSC is expanding The Most Valuable Project with the launch of two new digital tools: Most Valuable Check-In and Most Valuable Pinboard. Read the rest of this entry »

SalesWays launched the innovative and patented ASPEC sales tracking and opportunity management app in December of 2012 for the iPhone and Cloud. Since then, thousands of people have signed up for ASPEC either on mobile or directly in the Cloud. ASPEC Mobile 1.2, available this week, now includes French, Spanish, and Italian languages to add to the English, German, and Portuguese languages currently available. Business users will appreciate the increased functionality of being able to assign additional roles to users so information can be filtered to maintain security while assuring everyone has all the information they need to succeed at increasing their sales productivity. Read the rest of this entry »

Music for Productions has just announced that they have added new stock music to their online database, which has been composed by new composers to join the MFP team including, Margaret Maria, an award winning Canadian Cellist. Her first 3 pieces are now available in the stock music collection through the Music for Productions (MFP) website. Read the rest of this entry »