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New Media Manitoba and Nordicity have announced a groundbreaking New Media Census for the province of Manitoba. Whether your company is one or one hundred people strong, you are an important part of the industry in Manitoba — and NMM wants to make sure that you’re counted! Read the rest of this entry »

Explore the profound impact of the two World Wars on ordinary people of New Brunswick in New Brunswickers in Wartime, 1914-1946, the new exhibition opened yesterday at the Canadian War Museum. The exhibit features the personal stories of individuals who served in uniform or in wartime industries, and those who supported the war from home. It also examines the people’s readjustment to civilian life at war’s end. Organized and first presented by the New Brunswick Museum, the exhibition was adapted by the War Museum for its presentation in Ottawa. Read the rest of this entry »

Distribution360 has announced the addition of Kirsten Hurd to its Toronto-based office in the new role of Senior Sales Executive. She joins the company’s international sales team and brings with her a wealth of experience in the kids and factual space. Kirsten will manage relationships with international broadcasters and new platforms, and will also attend major markets throughout the year to represent the company’s library of over 200 hours of entertainment content. Read the rest of this entry »

Just in time for the Holidays, Comwave’s new Mobile App has eliminated cell phone long distance charge to 57 countries.  Available today on iTunes for the US & Canada for $30 per year, users are able to place long distance calls directly through their existing contact lists on their cell phones, to 57 countries including the USA & Canada.  There are no monthly bills and there is a 100-minute free trial available on Comwave’s web site. Read the rest of this entry »

TELUS has invested $875,000 in a new wireless site west of Revelstoke to bring new 4G wireless service to an important stretch of Highway 1 between Kamloops and the Alberta border. This project is a result of the 10-year Connecting British Columbia agreement signed with the Province of B.C. earlier this year. Under the terms of the contract, TELUS will connect more than 1,700 kilometres of highway with wireless service and run fibre optic cable directly to nearly 450 B.C. schools over the next five years. Read the rest of this entry »

No toy gets left behind! TransGaming Inc. invites you to immerse yourself in Story Mode as Buzz, Woody, or Jessie as you run, ride, and fly through favorite scenes from Disney Pixar’s Toy Story 3 in their latest title, now available on the Mac App Store for $29.99. For the princess gamers in your house, TransGaming introduces Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey, also available on the Mac App Store, for $19.99. Read the rest of this entry »

uptime software, Inc., a leader in IT systems performance, availability and capacity management software for midmarket and enterprise organizations, has announced up.time Small Business Edition (SBE), a deep, easy-to-use and powerful IT systems monitoring and management suite designed for small and medium businesses (SMB). up.time SBE is uptime software’s first foray into the lucrative SMB market and delivers full server and application monitoring and reporting across a myriad of platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal’s CAE announced today that it has sold four Level D full-flight simulators (FFS), including an ATR 42/72-600 FFS to European aircraft manufacturer ATR; a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 FFS to Ethiopian Airlines, the flag carrier of Ethiopia, as well as two FFSs, an Airbus A320 and a Boeing 737, to Shanghai Eastern Flight Training Centre, the training subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines. CAE has also received contracts for training devices and for simulator update services from several airlines. The contracts are worth a total of more than C$50 million at list prices, and bring the total number of FFS sales that CAE has announced to date during fiscal year 2012 to 25. Read the rest of this entry »

Videotron is pleased to announce that it is bringing Wireless Internet service to customers in various parts of Québec where high-speed Internet has been unavailable until now. In collaboration with Industry Canada’s Broadband Canada program, Videotron is expanding its reach in the following regions: Beauce-Lower St. Lawrence, Victoriaville-Drummondville, Montérégie-Eastern Townships, Laurentians-Mont-Laurier, Lac-Saint-Jean and the North Shore. Read the rest of this entry »

Epiphan Systems Inc. has announced the release of its DVI2PCIe frame grabber, a new internal capture card with a single-link DVI/VGA input. DVI2PCIe captures video from any single link DVI, unencrypted HDMI video, VGA, DisplayPort, Mini DisplayPort, Thunderbolt video, or BNC/component video source and is ideal for capturing video from any monitor, projector, embedded systems , medical and scientific equipment displays in 100% lossless quality. Read the rest of this entry »