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IT-related components retailer NCIX is pleased to announce the hiring of Carlos Teixeira as Director of Sales and Marketing, effective January 3, 2012. Based out of the corporate head office in Richmond, Teixeira will lead the Marketing and Sales teams by leveraging best practices gleaned over his 20 years working for Fortune 500 companies. Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to a new addition by Scott, Village Gamer now has a brand new national events calendar – categorized by provinces and territories. This new events calendar is much more functional than the previous event page we used to have – but wait, that’s not all. Read the rest of this entry »

ViXS Systems Inc. has made three announcements today in preparation for the company’s participation in CES 2012 later this month in Las Vegas, beginning with added support for DLNA features, which will enableservice providers to provide a richer multi-screen experience based on ViXS’ XCode True mobility platform. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver Island-based Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd has announced the release of PDF 1.8.7 for iOS, an update to their universal document viewer app that allows the user to view complex, oversize, and large multi-page PDF documents easily. The $3.99  USD app employs proprietary LargeViewer technology to pre-render large or complex documents for smooth scrolling and zooming. Read the rest of this entry »

Title: Little Bets – How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries
Author: Peter Sims
Publisher: Free Press (April 19, 2011)
Pages: 224
Cover Price: $28.99 _{Disclaimer: Clicking the cover graphic or the book title will link you to Amazon.ca through our Associate account. Purchasing the book through this link will help us earn money for the site.}

I picked this book up on our way home from Merging Media 2011 in Vancouver, having heard one of the speakers recommend it during his presentation. Through the wonders of the internet and cell phone technology, I was able to ascertain that our local Chapters outlet had one copy, and called ahead to have it held for me. Read the rest of this entry »

In the wake of world-wide attention generated by the Omni Film Productions creation, Ice Pilots NWT©, Alberta Publishing has announced the release of a new publication, “Buffalo Airways – Diamonds, DC-3s and ‘Buffalo Joe’ McBryan” by critically-acclaimed aviation author and military historian, Darrell Knight. Read the rest of this entry »

Alberta’s Apps for Homeschooling is celebrating the New Year by giving away a $25 iTunes GC (US)! This popular review website now has over 100 detailed educational app reviews sorted by grade, subject, device, and cost. Homeschoolers, educators, and parents can enter to win before January 11th, 2012 by sharing which new homeschooling apps they’d like to buy to prepare for the new semester and the new year! Read the rest of this entry »

Embraceware Software has announced the release of Shuttle Scuttle 1.0 for Mac in the Mac App Store for just $1.99. If you prefer mobile gaming, Shuttle Scuttle is also available for iOS devices on the iTunes App store for the holiday sale price of just 99 cents USD (regular price is $1.99). Read the rest of this entry »

DHX Media Ltd. is pleased to announce the closing of its previously announced substantial issuer bid of up to $5 million in value of its common shares made by way of modified “Dutch Auction”, pursuant to which shareholders could specify the price per share at which they were willing to sell within the range of $0.60 to $0.70. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise mobile app developer Flowfinity Wireless Inc. has announced Flowfinity Actions 6.2. This dynamic software solution for customizing mobile business forms and workflows now fully supports iPhone and iPad mobile devices. Flowfinity Actions 6.2 allows businesses to replace paper forms with flexible mobile apps for improving productivity, streamlining processes and reducing operations costs. Read the rest of this entry »