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D-BOX Technologies Inc. has a new agreement with Orange Sky Golden Harvest Entertainment Company for the installation of 19 additional D-BOX MFX Seats at one of the company’s premiere Hong Kong locations.

This latest agreement marks the second sale of D-BOX MFX Seats in Hong Kong, the first taking place earlier this year when Golden Harvest Mongkok introduced its first D-BOX auditorium, and will generate licensing fees payable to D-BOX in accordance with the systems’ use. With this installation, Golden Harvest Mongkok will boast two D-BOX auditoriums further expanding D-BOX’s footprint in Asia. Read the rest of this entry »

Touch Village Inc. has released Dragons Rage, a tower defense styled medieval arcade game where users take the place of an angry dragon and fight to defend themselves against an onslaught of enemies like knights with swords, archers and pike men. Using the power of fire and the movement of the mobile device, the dragon must defeat enemies as they attack from all sides. Users will fight their way through villages, towns and mountains to reach the castle and their final challenge. A universal iOS game, Dragons Rage is currently available at the introductory sale price of $1.99. Read the rest of this entry »

Corel today announced the winners of the 2011 CorelDRAW® International Design Contest. With categories representing a range of production and design disciplines, the contest celebrates the diversity of CorelDRAW talent from around the globe. A total of twenty-four winning designs were selected from the hundreds of entries submitted by CorelDRAW users worldwide. Joseph Diaz of Pontiac, Illinois was named the Grand Prize winner for his entry entitled Steampunk Stella’s. All of the winning designs can now be viewed on the  CorelDRAW web site. Read the rest of this entry »

Preo Software Inc. has extended its contractual relationship with Xerox Corporation until June 2013. This agreement centers around using Preo’s proprietary technology in the industry’s first customer installable assessment tool that measures color area coverage on each page, real time, for Xerox’s award-winning ColorQube™ 9300 Series multifunction printer (MFP). Read the rest of this entry »

Beanheads Consulting Inc. recently released Photo Folder 1.0 for Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and app that provides users with intuitive photo organization tools including personalized folders and filters for easy photo finding. The Photo Folder app allows users to create personalized folders to quickly organize their photo library. Additionally, users can select multiple photos and file them in designated folders. Multiple layers of folders allow users to further arrange their photos into a hierarchy that best suits their needs. In additional, flexible options such as assigning ratings or assigning keywords within a photo’s metadata gives users the ability to filter their photo collection to find a desired image. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most popular Palm OS applications, body-PRO, has been re-engineered specifically for iOS and on September 13, 2011 it was co-released with NutriScanner. Both of these applications offer unique firsts for iOS applications as well as deliver successfully as best in class applications for Health and Fitness. The combination of body-PRO and NutriScanner provides the health, diet and fitness enthusiast with more features than any other fitness application. Read the rest of this entry »

DIRECTV has acquired all three seasons of the critically acclaimed, award-winning Canadian comedy series Less Than Kind. Produced and distributed by Toronto-based Breakthrough Entertainment, the series will make its exclusive U.S. debut this fall on DIRECTV’s Audience Network, joining fellow Canadian hit Call Me Fitz as part of the network’s stable of comedy programming. UTA, on behalf of Breakthrough Entertainment, brokered the deal with DIRECTV. Read the rest of this entry »

As follow up to the release of Burn The Rope: Worlds, Big Blue Bubble has released new trailers for their next projects, Fling A Thing and Hamster Cannon, both of which will soon be available for download to your iOS and Android devices. Also coming soon from the prolific game developer is Dark Incursions, a 3D-style iPhone title with side-scrolling, hack and slash game play that takes place amidst an industrial revolution and a world war in a late 1800’s alternate reality setting. Read the rest of this entry »

Digital Journal has launched news apps for the Apple iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook. Partnering with Polar Mobile, Digital Journal is releasing free tablet apps that feature breaking news, blogs, image galleries and user-generated content submitted by more than 32,000 Digital Journalists from around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Lionsgate, Google, YouTube, Al Jazeera and Amazon will be among hundreds of conventional and digital media organizations from across North America that will come together at Merging Media 2011 in Vancouver, Canada in October 27 and 28, to discuss and explore the future of cross-media entertainment.

Hosted by Merging Media Productions Inc. and the Canadian Media Production Association – BC Producers’ Branch, this two day Conference and Masterclass is the premier showcase for Cross-Media in Canada. Merging Media is the place where media professionals converge to collaborate and capitalize on the media revolution that’s underway; it provides a high level platform for cross-disciplines to showcase their latest work, strategize, network with key business contacts and learn from each other. Read the rest of this entry »