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Toronto-based Tucows Inc., a provider of domain names, email and other Internet services, announced yesterday that it is commencing its modified “Dutch auction” tender offer to repurchase up to 6,500,000 shares of its common stock, representing approximately 12.2% of Tucows’ outstanding shares, as previously announced on December 15, 2011. The closing price of Tucows common stock on the NYSE Amex on December 19, 2011 was $0.75. Read the rest of this entry »

Flowfinity Wireless Inc., a provider of enterprise mobile apps for business process automation, today announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art data centre in Toronto, Canada. The data center will support secure, scalable, on-demand hosting services for rapid enterprise mobile apps deployment. Read the rest of this entry »

Talent Technology Corporation, a leading provider of talent generation solutions, has announced the release of the latest version of their Talemetry™ talent generation suite. Talemetry offers solutions to help organizations source better talent, drive recruitment marketing initiatives, and more effectively engage with candidates. This latest release further enhances the ability for Talemetry customers to find and attract the best talent. Read the rest of this entry »

mpengo Ltd™ introduces their latest product for a unique business. mpengo Snow an easy to use but essential tool to help manage a snow removal business and attract new clients. mpengo Snow™ is now available in the Apple App Store™ and iTunes™ for $9.99. One of mpengo’s previous releases is GloveBox, a 99 cent app that helps you organize almost anything. Read the rest of this entry »

Awarded “Most Anticipated Game of 2012” at the Spike TV VGAs two weeks ago, Mass Effect^TM 3 features gripping musical arrangements directed by returning composers and leading artists in entertainment. The soundtrack sets the captivating tone for hero Commander Shepard’s struggle to take Earth back from an alien race known as the Reapers. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian app developer Robots and Pencils challenges you to save the damsel in distress over and over and over again in its upcoming physics-based puzzle game Catch the Princess HD. Play through more than 60 dungeon levels with a wide variety of challenges, cutting the chains that bind the poor princess to the ceiling. Plan your moves carefully, using bellows, pixie dust and physics to swing the princess’ cage past dangerous obstacles, as you guide her into the waiting arms of a fang-toothed admirer. Read the rest of this entry »

As we told you earlier this year, Toronto-based Maide Inc. has taken on the challenge of designing a new method of control for people who use 3D CAD programs. Their first product, Maide Control, turns the iPad into a multi-touch input device for programs such as Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Solidworks, Google Sketchup, and Rhinoceros 3D, and allows for multiple iPads to connect to one computer simultaneously.  Read the rest of this entry »

In preparation for its upcoming transmedia sessions in January, Merging Media Toronto has announced the five distinguished Jury members for the MMTO Lab Jury Panel who will listen to pitches and decide which workshop project will be named the winner. Read the rest of this entry »

Manitoba residents in Neepawa, Minnedosa, Killarney and Carberry will soon enjoy the next generation of high definition television and faster broadband connections when MTS deploys its fibre-to-the-home network (FiON) to these four communities in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

In an aggressive pursuit to increase its presence in key markets across Canada, Citytv has signed an affiliate agreement with Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN), the two networks announced today. Beginning January 2, Citytv programming will air from 3 p.m. to 5:59 a.m. CST every day, at which time the network will officially be called ‘Citytv on SCN’.  Throughout the remainder of the day, the station will be referred to as ‘SCN’, and will continue to air educational and children’s programming, commercial free. Read the rest of this entry »