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Operation Kidsafe is coming to Vancouver and Richmond for 2 weekends of free child safety events, with the Vancouver Police Department present at the events with safety information for parents. One of the Operation KidSafe digital systems is coming to your area. The system can digitally fingerprint and photograph a child in 30 seconds or less with no ink and no film. The family has a digital quality set of prints that last a lifetime. Read the rest of this entry »

Kobo, the eReading service with over 5.6 million users worldwide, has announced the launch of the Kobo 2012 Book Club, designed for new owners of the company’s popular Kobo eReader Touch Edition family of E Ink devices.  Available to residents of Canada and the United States who activate their Kobo eReader Touch or Kobo Touch with Offers today through March 31, 2012, regardless of where the unit was purchased, the new book club offers a gift of a free book for each month of 2012, to Touch eReader owners who have enrolled in the program. Read the rest of this entry »

The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) welcomed the Ontario government’s proposed Accepting Schools Act, saying that it will build on current efforts to create safe schools and address bullying behaviour. The bill proposes to directly address bullying of all kinds, including bullying related to gender identity and sexual orientation as well as race, ancestry, colour, religion, and disability. Read the rest of this entry »

Warner Bros. Pictures’ “The Dark Knight Rises”—the epic conclusion to filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy—is one of the most anticipated films of 2012, but moviegoers won’t have to wait until next year to see the six-minute opening sequence of the film. The film’s prologue will be unveiled exclusively in select 70mm IMAX^®theatres worldwide. The announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, and Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures. Read the rest of this entry »

CakeMail, Inc., a provider of white label email marketing tools for web hosts, agencies and resellers announced today that the CakeMail platform is now available to cPanel hosting partners. This new integration with cPanel marks the first time a robust email marketing platform has been made easily available as a plug-in to millions of users via their website control panels. Read the rest of this entry »

The Find Chocolate! app has drawn more than 1,000 new subscribers since its official launch on November 7 of this year, following a soft launch earlier this summer, and with Christmas rapidly approaching, this app is sure to appeal to shoppers wanting to find the best for the chocoholics on their list. Read the rest of this entry »

NYRIUS® is proud to introduce the newest addition to its product line — the NAVS500 High Definition Digital Wireless Audio Video Sender. With home theater systems expanding to include multiple media devices, and with more people preferring to mount their TVs, dealing with cables has become an issue to contend with. NYRIUS has designed the Wireless Audio Video Sender in order to address this concern. It transmits a signal wirelessly from various media devices direct to an HDTV, allowing components to be arranged without the hassle of cables. Read the rest of this entry »

In line with its new strategic vision Fostering Cultural Success, Telefilm Canada will select a contingent of 20 export-ready independent Canadian game development companies to support and showcase during GDC 2012. This initiative is aimed at the promotion of Canadian talent in the interactive digital media industry. The application deadline for the Canada Program at GDC 2012 is December 13th. Read the rest of this entry »

The unique Anywhere Anytime (A²) licensing offered by Rove allows the user to use one license of Mobile Admin from many mobile devices. A²decouples Mobile Admin licensing from the user’s mobile environment. A² manages the settings, shortcuts and security so that users are able to seamlessly move between their mobile devices while dealing with issues. For example, IT pros can use an iPad while moving around their data center and facilities, and then switch to their Motorola RAZR on the bus ride home to check on status and triage outstanding issues. Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa should transform the Investment Canada Act to create a broader, more transparent foreign investment review regime to encourage investment inflows while protecting Canadian national interests, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.  In “Reforming the Investment Canada Act: Walk More Softly, Carry a Bigger Stick,” authors Philippe Bergevin and Daniel Schwanen say that Canada should scrap the “net benefit test” that now restricts inbound foreign investment. The authors argue that such an overhaul could help reverse Canada’s declining share of global foreign direct investment, and bring Canada in line with its more open peers. Read the rest of this entry »