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Kibooco interactive kids’ platform has a holiday preview running for the next four weeks. This is your chance to get in the front door and play with the system to see what it will be capable of doing when the platform is fully launched. You can currently make a few personalized gift items such as notebooks, shirts, calendars and cards that can then be ordered to be received via snail mail. Kibooco is quite intuitive, and it’s easy to spend a lot of time creating designs. The creative team behind the platform invite you to check out the offerings and provide feeedback on your experience. Read the rest of this entry »

This holiday, the war for Earth comes to the Wii U™ console system when Mass Effect 3 Special Edition plunges you into an all-out galactic war to take Earth back from a nearly unstoppable foe — and how you fight that war is entirely up to you. Groundbreaking interactive storytelling drives the heart-pounding action in which each decision you make could have dire and deadly consequences. You are Commander Shepard, the only one who can save Earth from annihilation. Read the rest of this entry »

Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) is pleased to introduce Flight School, a new comprehensive crisis simulation tool that combines H+K communications training experts, customized materials and new proprietary technology. Flight School was developed through a close collaboration between crisis communications professionals, digital strategists and engineers and provides participants in crisis exercises with the opportunity to overcome challenges in a comprehensive, timely and strategic manner. Read the rest of this entry »

On November 29 and 30, 2012, Startup Canada is hosting the Startup Nations Summit in Ottawa in partnership with the British High Commission, the Canadian High Commission, the American Embassy, DFAIT, Microsoft and Shopify. This Summit is bringing together national startup initiatives from across the world – Britain, Malaysia, Portugal, Chile, America, Mexico, South Africa – to connect, share, learn, collaborate and unleash global entrepreneurship. Read the rest of this entry »

IUGO Mobile Entertainment is proud to announce that Animal Academy: Fairy Tails is now available on the App Store for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Animal Academy: Fairy Tails, the third installment in the beloved Animal Academy series, is a social town building game set in a vivid and colorful fairy tale world. Players can build the fantasy town of their dreams, interact with all-time favorite storybook characters such as Robin Hood, Snow White, and Rapunzel and share their very own fairy tale world with their friends. Read the rest of this entry »

Express Media has announced their full line-up of mobile releases hitting the App Store this winter. The Calgary-based independent mobile developer will release Cognitile, a memory puzzle game, and Fitness Helper, an exercise assistant app by the end of the year. CannonCraft, a fantasy action game will follow in early 2013.
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Nova Scotia’s knowledge economy is continuing to grow through a new venture between the province of Nova Scotia, IBM and a group of six Nova Scotia post-secondary institutions. Together with the support of the Nova Scotia government and a consortium of 6 universities and colleges, IBM Canada will create its first-ever centre for application services delivery in Canada. IBM Canada will establish a Halifax-based Global Delivery Centre. The province, through Nova Scotia Business Inc., is investing up to $12,240,000 in exchange of up to 500 new highly skilled jobs in Nova Scotia. Read the rest of this entry »

Sixty-five years ago, Margret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd created one of the all-time best-selling, and arguably best bedtime books of all time. Now this quintessential classic has been beautifully re-imagined as an interactive app designed for your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch by Vancouver’s Loud Crow Interactive. Also available within Goodnight Moon are Goodnight Moon ABC: An Alphabet Book and Goodnight Moon 123: A Counting Book. These interactive, educational apps feature innovative letter and number tracing technology, counting and word guessing games, and great interactivity that will keep your children engaged while they’re learning their letters and numbers. Read the rest of this entry »

Game of Thrones, the role playing game developed by Cyanide, managed to unite a realm of players on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC thanks to the game’s captivating story, which finished with a gripping ending that took into account the choices made by players throughout their adventure. Players lived an epic tale, in parallel of the first book of the formidable fantastic saga from George R.R. Martin, a tale praised by press, players, and canonized by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire himself.  Read the rest of this entry »

FreshBooks, the Toronto-based cloud accounting specialist for small business owners, has released their iPad app designed specifically for service-based professionals with 1-10 employees who want the freedom to run their business on the go. Following the recent launch of the iPhone app, FreshBooks for iPad builds on the company’s vision to support small business owners everywhere with high-quality mobile tools that give them the convenience and flexibility they need for their business. Read the rest of this entry »