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Air Canada has announced it is inviting Canadian film students and emerging filmmakers to enter its seventh annual enRoute Short Film Festival. Each year, a celebrity jury selects the best short films and broadcasts them to a large international audience on Air Canada’s enRoute in-flight entertainment system. Read the rest of this entry »

Samsung Canada has announced the availability of the highly anticipated Samsung GALAXY Note 8.0. Small and lightweight, the GALAXY Note 8.0 brings a new era of intelligent Note technology to the mid-size tablet category. The compact one-hand-grip screen features an unrivalled multimedia performance and redefines the way users read, watch, play, listen, create and connect with family and friends. Read the rest of this entry »

Royal Galipeau, Member of Parliament for Ottawa-Orléans, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), today announced Government of Canada investments of up to $1.85 million to support software development and attract private sector investment in high growth companies in the Ottawa area. Read the rest of this entry »

Wishpond, the easiest-to-use social marketing platform, today confirmed their commitment to marketers worldwide to create, build and launch their own successful social campaigns from a self-service platform. Wildfire, a subsidiary of Google, recently announced the discontinuation of its DIY promotions. In response, Wishpond is providing a 50% discount on annual subscriptions to Wildfire users now in search of a self-service solution. Read the rest of this entry »

Pixel Blue College is pleased to announce a partnership with The Pride Centre of Edmonton as part of the College’s Community Investment Strategy. Pixel Blue has become the design firm for the Centre and is donating its time and resources to build a stronger brand for the organization. The Centre is in the process of rebranding its look, image and materials and so far Pixel Blue has completed the redesign and launch of the new logo. The new logo was designed placing prominence on the word “Centre” as the patrons of The Pride Centre of Edmonton is commonly refer to the organization as simply the Centre. Read the rest of this entry »

Destiny Media Technologies has announced a major upgrade to both the software and hardware infrastructure that powers the Play MPE® Direct-to-Web portal.  This site is used by tens of thousands of music industry professionals to access pre-release music and videos distributed through the Play MPE® system. Read the rest of this entry »

Drawing on its RSS expertise, Canadian tech start-up WellRead Inc. has accelerated development and recently launched a web-based platform that aims to simplify how readers can keep up with fast-moving traditional news and their own social media networks. Read the rest of this entry »

Just in time for the celebration of Canadian music and musicians at the JUNO Awards next week, Canada Post is proud to give Canadians a preview of this edition of the Canadian Recording Artist stamp series, to be released in July, featuring for the first time, Canadian bands. Beau Dommage, Rush, The Guess Who and The Tragically Hip will be spotlighted in this fourth issue in a series created to honour musical legends. Read the rest of this entry »

Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN), Canada’s largest South Asian Broadcaster, will launch 2 more Channels, namely, Canada’s first and only 24 hour Sikh Spiritual Channel, the ATN-SIKH channel and Canada’s first South Asian Youth oriented Punjabi Music Channel, the ATN-BRIT Asia Channel. This takes the total tally of Punjabi channels from ATN to six, which is in trend with the growing Punjabi and Sikh population across Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada, get ready to rock! Samsung Canada, the leading supplier of mobile phones in the Canadian marketplace, announced today that it will celebrate the upcoming launch of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 with regional launch parties on April 25, 2013. Redefining the smartphone experience, the Galaxy S 4 allows users to connect with friends and family from near and far in exciting ways. To celebrate this connected experience, Samsung Canada is previewing the device to Canadian consumers with an integrated tri-city exclusive launch experience. Read the rest of this entry »