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Montreal tech company Neptune Computer Inc. has announced that its much anticipated flagship product, the Neptune Pine, is now available for pre-order starting at a suggested retail price of $335. With unparalleled connectivity and an extensive set of features, the Pine does it all, without tethering to a smartphone. The Pine is expected to ship to the US and Canada in December of 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto-based enterprise mobile safety solutions provider Guardly has announced that Alex Asnovich has joined the company as the new vice president, global marketing. Mr. Asnovich has more than 15 years of successful executive experience in enterprise IT, SaaS, security and life safety solutions, bringing to Guardly a unique combination of experience to grow global brand awareness, generate leads and increase product demand. As the company looks towards aggressive expansion by the end of the 2013 calendar year, the Guardly team is adding proven industry talent to support its growth. Read the rest of this entry »

Medical professionals have always advocated that patients suffering from chronic pain due to conditions such as fibromyalgia, migraines, arthritis, or back pain, should track their pain through a diary. A pain diary app can be a foundational part of a self-management program; however, the challenge is how to get insights from the hundreds of potential logs. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto’s PadWorx Digital Media was pleased today to announce it has commenced production of version 2.0 of Tourism Australia’s flagship tourism app, “There’s Nothing Like Australia.” Working closely with Tourism Australia, PadWorx will significantly revise and expand the content and functionality of the hugely successful original version. Read the rest of this entry »

Zevrix Solutions has released BatchOutput Server 4.9.1, a maintenance update to its powerful output workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. Developed originally for a major magazine publisher in the United States to free up their operator computers from outputting InDesign files, the software automates InDesign workflow by processing files from hot folders. The software offloads printing and exporting to PDF and PostScript to a central system leaving operator workstations free from the output process. Read the rest of this entry »

Stage to Screen – an imaginative project of the Ontario Heritage Trust, ViDDYWELL FiLMS and bravoFACT – commemorates the 100^th anniversary of the Elgin Theatre. Six emerging filmmakers were encouraged to take advantage of the theatre’s magnificent architecture and develop a concept for a short film. The results are six unique and visually stunning shorts. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced today a contribution of more than $3.4M to 11 projects that applied to the Convergent Stream’s English POV Program dedicated to the production of point of view documentaries. Of the 11 projects (11 TV components with 10 related digital media components), one is from Alberta, one is from British Columbia, six are from Ontario, two are from Quebec, and one is an inter-provincial co-production between Quebec and Ontario. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft^® has announced that Tom Clancy’s™ Splinter Cell^® Blacklist™, the latest entry in the iconic Tom Clancy franchise, is now available in the UK for the PlayStation^®3, Xbox 360^®, Wii U™ and PC.  As lethal operative Sam Fisher, players are given a new mandate to hunt down the masterminds behind the Blacklist, a series of escalating terrorist attacks on U.S interests.  Developed by Ubisoft Toronto, with support from Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Shanghai. Read the rest of this entry »

In this new video from Ubisoft, gamers can watch pirate and assassin Captain Edward Kenway silently stalk his enemies across cities, rooftops and jungles as stealth is back with a renewed focus in Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag featuring new gameplay mechanics, features and weapons such as the lethal blowpipe. Read the rest of this entry »

The Year of Luigi is going strong. So far, Luigi has explored multiple haunted mansions in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon for Nintendo 3DS, partnered up with his brother in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, also for Nintendo 3DS, and taken the Wii U downloadable content world by storm in New Super Luigi U. Nintendo has announced that on August 25th, New Super Luigi U will be available as a packaged-disc version for Wii U that will be sold in retail stores. The game joins the downloadable version available in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U. Read the rest of this entry »