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Mobile TV is getting a serious makeover. Virgin Mobile has introduced an enhanced version of Mobile TV, with new innovative features, to its already stellar line-up. Whether you’re following the big game or watching the latest reality TV drama unfold live, you’ll always get to enjoy access to the latest TV highlights right on your Virgin Mobile smartphone. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenText™  has announced enhancements to the OpenText Online Marketing solution that helps marketing organizations transform ordinary Web sites into dynamic, exceptional customer experiences across Web, social, mobile, print and more. The new capabilities in OpenText Web Experience Management pave the road to new customers, boost loyalty among existing customers, and demonstrate the value of digital marketing efforts. Read the rest of this entry »

Social media management dashboard provider HootSuite has made two exciting announcements this morning. First, and just in time for SXSW 2012, HootSuite will roll out push notifications for HootSuite for iPhone and HootSuite for iPad to all users. Enterprise and Pro clients requested this more than any other feature, and can now monitor up to 20 Twitter handles on-the-go, receiving notifications directly on their iPhones and iPads whenever they receive New Followers, Retweets, and Favorited Tweets. Free users will be able to receive limited alerts for up to 2 Twitter accounts. Android is coming in the near future. Read the rest of this entry »

On March 9, The Toronto Tempest, Canada’s first independent politics and culture tablet magazine will launch. While major publications like The New Yorker, Wired, and Vanity Fair have innovated successfully in the tablet space, The Tempest will be this country’s first politics and culture tablet magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

T4G Limited, a full-service, project-based IT services company, is pleased to announce its game changing EnCenter tool that can save organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars by helping identify and reduce waste energy. EnCenter separates itself from standard energy management information systems (EMIS) with its ease of use in not only monitoring consumption but pinpointing waste and predicting future consumption patterns through performance modelling. Read the rest of this entry »

Coachable, the powerful coaching tool from SlippySoft Inc., is guaranteed to cause sports coaches to ditch their dry erase boards en masse with the new features that take this app to the next level. Coachable is an innovative coaching app for iPad devices and is available in three versions – Coachable Hockey, Coachable Soccer, and Coachable Basketball – and allows coaches (even the armchair kind) to quickly sketch plays in seconds using Coachable’s tap-and-draw interface. Read the rest of this entry »

esDot Development Studio has announced the release of PicShop – Photo Editor, now available for iPhone. This $1.99 USD app includes all the power of the studio’s popular PicShop HD Editor ($4.99 USD), but is optimized for iPhone and iPod touch. PicShop offers a 60hz User Interface created with Adobe AIR, and designed after Android 4.0, giving iOS users a taste of Android ICS. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s a brave new world in publishing these days, and a B.C. mystery author is hoping that a series of highways will transport her murder plots to readers around the globe. With two recently published e-books to her credit, R.E. (Ruth) Donald is working on a third novel in what she calls the Hunter Rayne highway mystery series. Read the rest of this entry »

With Let’s develop together! as its theme, the Société de transport de Laval is launching a contest for everyone interested either in developing mobile applications from their Open Data, in order to improve riders’ experience in using the STL’s services, or in submitting an idea or a concept for a mobile application, in order to further improve riders’ experience in using their services. Read the rest of this entry »

Social search technology developer Wajam has released new findings on the usefulness of social search. After sampling its extensive database of users to produce research on the state of social search, Wajam reports on the company’s blog that 44% of all search engine queries return social search results. Regular searches are enhanced by results from friends and followers nearly half of the time, bringing added value and increasing users’ social knowledge. Social search results include any “likes,” links, comments, tweets, recommendations, reviews, photos, videos or check-ins from friends and followers. Read the rest of this entry »