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Vancouver’s CounterPath Corporation has announced the worldwide availability of Bria Android Tablet Edition, a standards-based softphone that enables enterprises to extend VoIP calling and PBX features to Android tablets, including employee-owned devices. According to Strategy Analytics, Android had 39 percent of the in quarter shipments of the consumer tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2011, while a recent NPD In-Stat survey found that 78 percent of businesspeople who have a tablet at work paid for it themselves.  Read the rest of this entry »

Are you tired of those tedious long-day training on how to handle difficult customers or how to be a team leader, etcetera? Think instead of easily-digestible chunks, short, practical, targeted just-in-time relevant interactive learning. Read the rest of this entry »

BDO, one of Canada’s leading accounting and advisory firms and Microsoft’s Canadian Partner of the Year (2010, 2011), has chosen American company SaaSplaza to provide the infrastructure, service, and support required to deliver Cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM solutions to its customers. Read the rest of this entry »

From checking blood glucose levels, to monitoring the movements of a newborn baby, Canadians are increasingly able to monitor their health across a growing variety of devices and services. What most will not know is that in the background, a wireless connection is powering the delivery of crucial information needed to improve the management and monitoring of one’s vitals and overall wellness. Read the rest of this entry »

Secure digital media distribution company Yangaroo Inc. has announced a partnership with HitLab, an industry leading independent artist site for the global music and video community headed up by superstar recording artist and Grammy-nominated artist/record producer, Akon. The partnership provides Yangaroo’s Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) for music and music video delivery services, at preferred prices, to the tens of thousands of HitLab members throughout the world.  Read the rest of this entry »

Knowledge Circle is one of the largest language training providers in the National Capital Region, and is committed to instructor excellence as well as continual learning tool innovation. Now in its ninth year of operation, Knowledge Circle is proud to launch KCestore.com, its new online store with a line of online learning tools tailored specifically for federal government employees. Read the rest of this entry »

EXFO Inc. announced today the addition of Fibre Channel and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) test capabilities to its popular NetBlazer multiservice testers. Housed in the powerful FTB-1 platform, NetBlazer series testers provide frontline technicians with fast, intuitive and ultra-portable test solutions.

Launched nine months ago, the NetBlazer series has quickly gained market acceptance. Namely, 10 of the world’s 15 largest operators have selected the flagship FTB-880 NetBlazer Multiservice Tester for their network deployments. The new Fibre Channel function offers a best-in-class range of interfaces (1, 2, 4, 8, 10X). These added capabilities further enhance the NetBlazer series’ feature set, extending its reach to include storage area networks (SANs) for cloud-based applications, data centers and financial communities.

The new Fibre Channel capabilities can be enabled on existing field units via a simple on-site software upgrade—they do not require a factory return. This provides customers with the highest level of flexibility without disrupting their ongoing activities. Within seconds, the user can therefore perform more tests, more effectively, with the same unit.

“Since its launch nine months ago, the NetBlazer series has enjoyed fast-growing success with our worldwide customer base, and the FTB-880 model is quickly establishing itself as the multiservice testing reference,” said Étienne Gagnon, EXFO’s Vice-President—Wireline Division and Corporate Marketing. “The new Fibre Channel and MPLS test capabilities widen the NetBlazer’s scope of applications, adding more power to this multiservice testing powerhouse, and more tools in frontline technicians’ toolbox.”

iStockphoto has launched an incredibly simple and intuitive plugin for several programs in the new Adobe^® Creative Suite^® 6 (CS6), that enables designers to search and directly download images within the programs without interrupting their workflow. A one-click comp replace feature automatically exchanges comp images with purchased images, perfectly resized and positioned within the working page layout or design. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) actively encourages and supports the production of value-added digital media content that is associated with CMF-funded television productions. In order to encourage maximum use of the Convergent Digital Media Incentive (CDMI) program, the CMF will broaden the current scope of the Digital Media Investment factor by also taking into account the CMF contribution to CDMI-funded projects in its calculation of the Digital Media Investment factor in 2013-2014 Performance Envelope calculations.  The revised manual is available online.

Google recently launched a business photos program to help businesses attract customers.  Specially trained “Google Trusted Photographers” provide 360-degree interactive panoramas of the interiors of businesses. The panoramas are seen on Google Maps and Google Places.  Businesses get higher visibility when consumers search on Google maps for a particular type of business in a geographic area, since the Google Places listings are found at the top of the results page. Read the rest of this entry »