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Visa Canada and Imperial Parking Canada Corporation (Impark) have announced they are partnering to bring Visa payWave contactless payments to 72 of its attended parking facilities across Canada. As of January 2012, drivers at participating parking lots will be able to simply “wave and go”, when purchasing parking at a payWave enabled Impark parking lot. Read the rest of this entry »

DHX Media Ltd. has resumed its automatic share purchase plan which it had previously suspended in order to facilitate repurchases of its common shares during company imposed black-out periods under its previously announced Normal Course Issuer Bid. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian IT solutions integrator Scalar Decisions has announced the launch of their RenderCloud project, which will see a number of British Columbia digital media studios move to a high-performance cloud computing model to render their digital productions, availing of Scalar’s centralized IT facilities at the Centre for Digital Media on the Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver. Read the rest of this entry »

Rogers has announced that its Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network is now available in more cities surrounding Montréal, including; Laval, Terrebonne, Brossard, Longueuil and Vaudreuil with plans to expand to more than 25 additional cities this year. This will bring LTE to more than half the Canadian population by the end of the year. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenText announced that it has continued to extend its leadership as a global information governance solution provider by becoming the first major ECM vendor to achieve VERS certification for its records management solution with Microsoft SharePoint 2010.  With this accomplishment, OpenText further establishes itself as the premier partner for information governance solutions that extend and enhance SharePoint 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

VantageWire has announced the opening of its new office in Toronto, Canada’s largest financial district. Through establishing a contact point in Toronto, home of the Toronto Stock Exchange, VantageWire will be able to better service clients based in Ontario and Eastern Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

SOCAN CEO Eric Baptiste has unveiled the music performing rights organization’s refreshed brand identity, including a new logo. SOCAN’s new brand will be reflected in the design and content of all of its marketing and communications materials, as well as on its website and social media pages. Read the rest of this entry »

Last weekend we spent a very enjoyable and informative time at the 6th Game Design Expo presented by Vancouver Film School. As in previous years, we were treated to some very inspiring and informative talks – some that make us wish we were game developers or trying to figure out a way to apply the processes covered to our own project endeavours.

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Top directors from Ridley Scott to Martin Scorsese are now filming in 3D. But what does this shift to mean to the global advertising community? At Advertising Week today, Geneva Film Co. founder and director James Stewart took a detailed journey to the next dimension of advertising. Stewart’s Advertising Week presentation explored new 3D platforms, costs, and implications for creative and storytelling. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has confirmed that the new wholesale rates for independent Internet service providers (ISPs) will be implemented on February 1, 2012. The large telephone and cable companies will proceed as scheduled with their proposed implementation plans, with the exception of the Bell companies. Their implementation plan has been modified on an interim basis while the CRTC resolves issues raised by the Canadian Network Operators Consortium. Read the rest of this entry »