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Mobile Innovations President and founder Gary Bauer announced his company’s launch of MPACIRT today. The new app facilitates and simplifies the response to critical and dangerous situations facing law enforcers by automating essential CIRT (Critical Incident Response Team) communications. Designed primarily for SWAT teams and highway patrol units, the MPACIRT solution uses BlackBerry PIN to PIN messaging platform along with GPS to locate, alert, inform and report back team member status and distance from any critical incident with a few simple thumb strokes or touches on the display on any BlackBerry smartphone. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority, the organization that manages the .CA Internet domain, is embarking on a new initiative to help create a more robust and economical domestic Internet for all Canadians by facilitating the development of more Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) across the country. Read the rest of this entry »

With the latest wave of apps to join the App Directory, HootSuite continues to simplify the lives of its 4+ million social media users – making it even easier to actively engage online with social media. The company’s latest integrations welcome mobile sharing app Instagram, content sharing network SlideShare, document sharing app edocr and engagement app Zuum into the popular, market-leading social media management dashboard. Read the rest of this entry »

Big Blue Bubble Inc. has announced that the studio’s Sonic the Hedgehog Skins for the iPhone and iPod app is now free.  Sonic the Hedgehog Skins gives users access to over 40 exclusive high resolution images of Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends for your iPhone and iPod Home and Lock screens.  The fun doesn’t end there, as content will be updated often. Read the rest of this entry »

LightSpeed, a Montreal and Ottawa-based software company that helps retailers reinvent in-store shopping, has launched a new retail technology that will enable interactive cross-selling in retail stores. Its new LightSpeed for iPad product is uniquely designed to arm retailers with tools to cross-sell more products and close more sales, while forging a stronger connection with their customers who can preview all related product information in one place. Read the rest of this entry »

Score Media Inc. has announced the launch of French, German and Portuguese editions of its dedicated soccer app, ScoreMobile FC for BlackBerry. The free app from the makers of ScoreMobile® already offers detailed soccer coverage for English and Spanish-speaking fans. And this latest expansion ensures even more fans globally will be able to stay up-to-date with the very latest soccer news, results and statistics. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based Intelimax Media Inc. has successfully launched its new Fantasy Sports platform on DraftTeam.com.  The DraftTeam.com.website offers daily and weekly fantasy sports games for the four major sports in North America, which includes NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto’s AudienceView is continuing to drive innovation with world-class mobile web ticketing integrated as a core component of its ticketing and customer relationship management (CRM) solution. The ability to sell and deliver tickets through a mobile-optimized web site versus a variety of device-specific apps provides significant benefits for ticket sellers and their end customers. Read the rest of this entry »

Honeycomb Creative Solutions has announced the addition of a Business App Development Division to its print and web communications firm. To promote the new division and the services it offers, Honeycomb Creative Solutions launched Honeycomb Apps.
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The steady shift in consumer preferences toward electronic information sources has gone beyond print media and is now taking its toll on demand for paper to produce books. As a result of this waning demand in North America, combined with ongoing turmoil in the world economy, Canada’s paper products industry faces a weak outlook in the next few years, according to The Conference Board of Canada‘s Spring 2012 outlook for the industry. Read the rest of this entry »