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rabble.ca is making history with a bit of the past. Its “Best of rabble.ca” is now available for free as a rich-media ebook for the iPad. This is the first time iBooks Author has been used for this kind of longform journalism in Canada. The iBook was created by online journalism students at the University of Western Ontario.  Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed The Fall is now available for download exclusively on the iPad, starting at $.99. In Assassin’s Creed The Fall, comic book fans will seamlessly slide from one page to the next as they learn about new characters and a new storyline.  With features exclusive to the iPad, fans will also have a choice of navigation, view, and whether or not they want to read it in color or black and white. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday during the second day of Microsoft Corp.‘s annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), top executives from the company announced new training, tools and other programs that enable partners to deliver compelling new cloud services to their customers. Read the rest of this entry »

In the Facebook land of social expression, where photos and videos are shared with ease, a new application was released today to mark your friends birthdays – Birthday Mashup Cards by Mashup Arts. The app displays your friend’s upcoming birthdays, and with just one-click, the application automatically creates a social ecard that includes a photo slideshow from your friends’ public folder, and adds a YouTube Video to your Facebook ecard. Read the rest of this entry »

Pattison Onestop (the digital division of Pattison Outdoor Advertising) has today announced the launch of the industry changing Ad Shop. With the launch of The Ad Shop, Pattison Onestop has emerged as the only out-of-home company in Canada to offer its portfolio of digital properties online. Read the rest of this entry »

ING DIRECT has announced a new addition to its existing mobile banking app for Apple^® and Android™ devices. Called Small Sacrifices, this new tool helps Canadians visualize how foregoing everyday indulgences and redirecting that money through small incremental deposits can lead to big savings over the long term. Read the rest of this entry »

Complementing their unique per artist subscription formula and new innovative site design, Vancouver-based MusXpand will soon offer several other types of streaming subscriptions and purchase formulas to satisfy a wider audience of fans and artists. Read the rest of this entry »

Tactio Health Group, a provider of mobile health applications used by more than 2.5 million consumers, today announced the addition of body monitoring data from BodyMedia FIT Armband Systems to the TactioHealth home wellness system to help users manage their weight. Consumers who utilize the BodyMedia FIT system for weight control can now import steps-taken data collected by the armband and sync it with the Tactio application’s Active Lifestyle page to help track daily activity levels, eliminating the need for manual data entry as well as assuring accurate activity monitoring by BodyMedia’s FDA Class II medical device. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenText Corporation and EasyLink Services International Corporation announced yesterday that the merger of EasyLink with an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of OpenText has been completed. The merger was approved by the stockholders of EasyLink at a special meeting held earlier today. As a result of the merger, EasyLink became an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of OpenText. Read the rest of this entry »

Flowfinity Wireless Inc., a Vancouver-based provider of enterprise mobile apps for business process automation, today announced a new status tracking feature in Flowfinity Actions 6.5 that allows security guards to effectively report on the status of their patrols with iPhone. Available for use even without cellular or Internet coverage, the solution helps to eliminate paper reporting and boost productivity on tours.
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