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Bell Media has announced that applications are now being accepted for the inaugural Bell Media Producer Accelerator Lab. Announced earlier this year, the two-part program is designed to assist the career advancement of mid-level Canadian producers. Submissions will be accepted until Friday, January 10 2014 at 5 p.m. ET, with the program scheduled to begin in March 2014. The Bell Media Producer Accelerator Lab is part of Bell Media’s TV Skills Development Initiative, which invests $1.8 million annually in a suite of national training programs. Read the rest of this entry »

Frima Studio is bringing the undead feast over to PC players today with Zombie Tycoon 2: Brainhov’s Revenge for $9.99 after a successful Steam Greenlight campaign. In the eight-chapter campaign, players will lead a horde of zombie troops as the evil mastermind, Orville Tycoon, as he seeks to eradicate the remaining survivors of Finkleville and challenge his former mentor, Professor Brainhov, to see whose zombie race is superior. Zombie Tycoon 2 is a lighthearted RTS that brings zombies together in battle with only one goal in mind: a delicious open buffet of brains! Read the rest of this entry »

Parents no longer have to don awful-smelling, red suits or over-indulge in cookies and milk on Christmas Eve to have their kids believe in the magic of Santa, thanks to a cool new app from creative agency Zulu Alpha Kilo and their children’s charitable partner. Parents can share their kids’ awe of the season when they prove Santa’s existence and show them incredibly believable video footage of Kris Kringle making personal visits to their actual living rooms, using a free app called Kringl. The easy-to-use app merges pre-formatted video scenes of Santa drinking milk, checking his list, searching for your child’s gifts or realizing he is being recorded with video footage of your living room, and together recreates the magical story of Santa. Read the rest of this entry »

North Vancouver City Library, in partnership with Maryland’s RBdigital from Recorded Books, is pleased to announce the launch of IndieFlix for Libraries, a premier online streaming service provider of award-winning independent films, shorts and documentaries from around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Klipfolio Inc, an Ottawa-based business dashboard vendor, has released a new category of examples to provide social media marketers with guidance as to which KPIs, metrics, and dashboards can demonstrate social media ROI. Based on extensive research and customer feedback, this new example category speaks to the close relationship between social media and website marketing. Read the rest of this entry »

SoMedia Networks, a Vancouver-based developer of globally scalable cloud-based video production and marketing solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of the SoMedia Enterprise Video Suite, the only integrated suite of corporate video services that enables large and medium sized businesses to produce, market, analyze, and optimize video content at unlimited scale. Read the rest of this entry »

Roaring Penguin Software Inc. has announced the release of CanIt 9.0.14 antispam email software designed for businesses of all sizes. For challenging e-mail environments that include enterprises, campuses, and ISPs. CanIt-PRO filters e-mail efficiently, effectively and affordably. Read the rest of this entry »

Award-winning Montreal artist and director JC Little has broken new ground with her first children’s picture eBook. Released on Amazon today for $3.17 CAD, The Last Snowman captures the transition between childhood innocence and adolescence with humor and tenderness. For the young of age and young at heart, The Last Snowman has something for everyone, as noted by NYT Bestselling author Jill Smokler, Annie @ PhD in Parenting Blog and syndicated columnist and author Tracy Beckerman. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto’s SoftAgility Systems Inc. is very pleased to announce its partnership with NetDocuments, an American Cloud Based Document & Email Management company. This partnership will couple NetDocuments’ excellent cloud based software with the expertise of SoftAgility Systems to provide easy, efficient and economical document management implementations. SoftAgility and NetDocuments is the perfect fit for solo to medium law firms looking to take advantage of a low cost full featured document management system. Read the rest of this entry »

Norman McLaren, one of the most famous animation filmmakers in the world, would have been 100 years old in 2014. McLaren brought an energy and vision to animation filmmaking that live on to this day. To celebrate his centenary, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership are inviting artists from around the world to respond to a call for projects entitled McLaren Wall-to-Wall. The selected artists will create four out of a total of eight video works that will be projected onto building façades in Montreal’s cultural district, the Quartier des Spectacles, from April 11 (McLaren’s birthday) to June 1, 2014, as a tribute to this animation filmmaker who holds an incomparable place in the history of world cinema. Read the rest of this entry »