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Groupe Archambault is pleased to present ZIK, a new music streaming service. Offering 12 million songs with fully interactive and unlimited access, ZIK is also the largest collection of French-language music, with 1.2 million titles in French. Read the rest of this entry »

The Royal Canadian Mint is pleased to announce that it has launched a program for developers from across North America to test and challenge a digital currency technology and to determine its applicability to the current marketplace. The MintChip™ Developer Challenge, which will accept submissions from April 4 until August 1, is part of the Mint’s ongoing research and development efforts. Read the rest of this entry »

What’s that buzzing noise? Is that a low-hanging cloud coming in? Oh, it’s just a plague of locusts descending on the Pygmies of Pocket God from Frima Studios and Bolt Creative. The Aztec calendar on Apocalypse Island continues to count down in Pocket God Episode 44: The Perfect Swarm, opening a new room in the island’s temple that houses the plague’s source – the locust queen! Available on the iTunes App Store today, Pocket God’s latest content update brings insect-riddled fun as well as a new Mondo Skin Pack to the hit iOS phenomenon. Read the rest of this entry »

Uniserve Communications Corporation has entered into a partnership agreement with Vancouver based Smartphone application developer George Mobile™. Uniserve will provide a variety of services on both a hardware and software level: The back-end infrastructure, complete telecom services including phone lines and phone numbers as well as management of the George Mobile platform. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian magazine readers remain loyal to the print versions of their favorite titles, with fewer than one in ten newsstand customers – and one in twenty women readers – having purchased an e-edition in the past year, according to a national survey. Read the rest of this entry »

textPlus is expanding with the launch of textPlus Free Text and Calls for Android. Starting today, Canadians who pay costly texting and calling fees will get all the features and benefits from their mobile phone with textPlus, but without all the costs. textPlus also works on Android tablets and other devices, so users can always stay connected to the conversation. Read the rest of this entry »

Sears Canada has announced the launch of its first applications for iPhone® and Android smartphones, making Sears the only department store in Canada with a fully transactional mobile website and iPhone®/Android applications, giving Canadian customers instant access to the over 80,000 products available at Sears.ca.  Customers can now not only browse and research Sears products, but they can also complete a full purchase with the convenience of their smartphone – from anywhere, in English or French. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal’s Tactio Software has now reached over 2,000,000 users of its TargetWeight wellness-system thanks to the popularity of its mobile health apps on the iTunes AppStore. TargetWeight makes it easy and fun for everyone to self-track health parameters such as weight, body fat, waist size, systolic & diastolic blood pressure which can all be measured with off-the-shelf scales and blood pressure devices in the comfort of one’s home and tracked in the privacy of their iPhones, iPods or iPads. Read the rest of this entry »

Quebec-based BNH Expert Software Inc. has created a new video highlighting the core capabilities of its flagship product, Advisor Enterprise, and the company would like your feedback. While the results of using Advisor speak for itself, sometimes getting the message across on why you should try it in the first place can be difficult to explain – it is the company’s hope that this new video will address some of the reasons why your corporation may want to make use of Advisor to assess training needs. Read the rest of this entry »

Now restaurant owners can make their own Android app in minutes without spending thousands of dollars on consultant fees. Andromo is a free, easy-to-use web service for creating Android apps with no coding required. Restaurants, cafés and bistros can use Andromo to create an app that keeps them connected to loyal patrons and attract new customers. Read the rest of this entry »