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Fido has kicked off the FidoCARES national road trip across Canada with its pack of partners who are all actively involved in enriching lives through dogs and the environment. The FidoCARES tour continues to support four community partners including Evergreen, Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides, St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog Program and the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies. Read the rest of this entry »

Poynt Corporation has announced that during the past year (April 2011 to April 2012), its user base has grown by 116% to over 15 million unique users worldwide, as the Company continues to thrive in offering its mobile local search and advertising platform. Management of Poynt Corp. believes that this significant growth aligns with current consumer adoption trends in the mobile advertising market. Read the rest of this entry »

After months of nominating and voting for their favourite locations, Canadians today learned whether their top pick made it to the final round. More than 200,000 votes were received in the second Great Places in Canada contest. From a field of 90 nominations, an expert panel of professional planners has now short-listed 21. Read the rest of this entry »

Telgo Communications, a division of the multinational AKR Global Group, is introducing high speed internet in Ontario and Quebec and Digital Home Phone Service across Canada. With today’s launch of High Speed Internet and Digital Home Phone, Telgo Canada now provides lightning-fast speeds and a reliable Internet connection for residents in the provinces of Ontario and Québec, and unlimited North American calling. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, in partnership with the City of St. John’s and the St. John’s Port Authority, today officially opened the Terry Fox Mile 0 Site, featuring a bronze statue of Terry Fox, on the shore of St. John’s harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador. Read the rest of this entry »

Vanilla Forums has announced the general availability of its new commenting feature which allows publishers to use Vanilla to power blog comments and turn those transient commenters into engaged community members. When an article is published, a new discussion thread is automatically created in the community forum and commenters can then participate in further conversations with each other in the community. Any comment posted to the blog or to the corresponding thread in the community is displayed in both places simultaneously. Read the rest of this entry »

Since the release of bookabi’s free version downloads have increased by over 250%.  Bookabi, created by Tamajii, has been featured as in the top ten of Top Educational Apps and as one of the Great Canadian Apps. Bookabi is free until the end of April and available worldwide through the App Store in the Education category. In the near future, users will be able to download additional backgrounds, characters and even share their stories with other bookabi users. Read the rest of this entry »

Set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Marvel’s The Avengers: Iron Man – Mark VII” from Loud Crow Interactive is an epic interactive comic book experience through the design logs of super hero Tony Stark as he journeys from his Mark I armor, used to escape from captivity in the Ten Rings insurgents’ cave, to the high-powered Mark VI armor, used to vanquish Ivan Vanko and his army of Hammer Drones. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian author Alexander Galant put his talents as a historical researcher and thriller writer together to pen his novel Depth of Deception -A Titanic Murder Mystery. He released it a week ago as an e-book to coincide with the centennial anniversary of Titanic. “It’s connected to – but not about – Titanic,” said Alexander Galant about the plot of his novel. Read the rest of this entry »

EZ-Robot has announced the release of its latest firmware, codename “HiFive!” for the EZ-Builder platform. This significant update introduces biped support with user defined GAIT positioning to allow for customizable actions like walking, crouching, turning left or right, kicking, balancing and more. Read the rest of this entry »