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Astral’s Disney XD enters the world of bionic beings with the series premiere of Lab Rats on Monday, March 12 at 3 p.m. ET. The live-action comedy series follows 14-year-old Leo and his newfound “siblings,” a trio of super-human teens, who together learn to navigate a typical high school with not-so-typical bionic glitches. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobilicity has claimed its place as the nation’s fastest-growing new wireless entrant, disclosing that it grew by approximately 63,000 net additions during the fourth quarter of 2011. The company’s rate of growth is anticipated to considerably outpace its peers based on results disclosed thus far. The company also finished the year with an average revenue per user (ARPU) slightly over $30. Read the rest of this entry »

Project X Labs Ltd and Insegni Centre Inc. have announced a new solution that brings together Social Media Data and Business Intelligence (BI).  The solution, called LikeInsight^TM, aligns Social Media strategy, social data and a company’s existing data assets to increase the insights available to organizations. Read the rest of this entry »

Human capital management solutions provider Ceridian Canada Ltd. has officially launched a new online service that gives small business owners all the tools necessary to pay and manage their people in one convenient location. Ceridian for Small Business provides employee-related solutions, which will result in up to a 9% reduction in labour costs for organizations with less than 50 employees. Read the rest of this entry »

Victoria’s GlasseyStrategy has announced upgrades to its StratPad family of iPad apps for business planning and strategy. New StratPad users will also learn from the three professionally developed sample business plans that come with the product. StratPad Plus is $9.99 USD and StratPad Premium is $34.99 USD. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone’s favorite brother and sister bunny combo are back in Max & Ruby: Max’s Mole Mash. Now Watch More TV Interactive Inc. is offering this family friendly app for free (regularly $1.99 USD) on Saturday, February 18th. Max’s Mole Mash is rated 4+ and is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad devices running iOS 4.2 or later. Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic invoice presentment and payment solutions provider VersaPay Corporation has entered into an agreement to provide electronic payment services for Wave Payroll, the small business payroll application recently launched by Wave Accounting. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto-based Compugen has been recognized with an esteemed HP Partner in Excellence Canada ESSN Growth Award at the 2012 HP Global Partner Conference (GPC) in Las Vegas. The Partner in Excellence Canada ESSN Growth Award honours Compugen for Top Balanced Revenue & Growth across the ESSN portfolio. Read the rest of this entry »

We are on the cusp of a new information revolution – a quantum leap in technology – and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo is leading the way. With the world’s largest concentration of researchers working to harness the forces of quantum mechanics, the institute stands to transform computing, communications and other technologies. Read the rest of this entry »

North Innovation Fund (NIF), a privately-held alternative financing firm providing ongoing SR&ED accrual loans to early stage Canadian companies in a variety of technology-based sectors, today announced the launch of its first Fund. The Fund was created to identify high growth and innovative companies that are in need of non-dilutive growth capital to accelerate their transition from early stage to commercialization. Read the rest of this entry »