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Virtual Mechanics has released SiteSpinner Pro, a versatile Windows web authoring tool that makes it easy to design web pages that are optimized for the desktop, iPhone, Blackberry, SmartPhone, PDA, cell phone, and any mobile device

Sidney BC – Virtual Mechanics has released SiteSpinner Pro, a versatile Windows web authoring tool that makes it easy to design web pages that are optimized for the desktop, iPhone, Blackberry, SmartPhone, PDA, cell phone, and any mobile device. There are more than 3.5 billion mobile phone users worldwide, and nearly a billion of them access the Internet with their phones.

Because Virtual Mechanics and Opera Software partnered to integrate the popular Opera web browser into the latest release of SiteSpinner Pro, it offers features that are not available in any other web authoring software. With SiteSpinner Pro it is possible to design and preview web pages as they’ll look using standard mobile device resolutions. This enables the user to create a web site for desktop and laptop devices, and then design a separate layout for mobile devices, ensuring that content looks good on any PDA, cell phone, or mobile device.
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Toronto – Stealth.com Inc. (Stealth Computer) a leading ISO 9001 manufacturer of industrial rugged computers and peripherals has released our most powerful mini pc yet, the LPC-650 Series LittlePC. The new Stealth LPC-650 small form PC offers tremendous power in a tiny package that measures 6.5″ x 6″ and less than 2″ tall or about the size of a hard cover novel yet surpasses the performance of most desktop and notebook PCs available today. Engineered with the latest Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processors featuring 64-Bit EMT64 Technology, you’ll experience blazing speed performance that will handle your most processor intense applications.

“The Stealth Model: LPC-650 is the most powerful small form Little PC we have ever offered. This full featured machine utilizes the latest Intel core 2 duo processor technology and we believe it offers the most processing power per square inch of any personal computer available today,” stated Ed Boutilier President & CEO of Stealth.com Inc.

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Toronto – Astral Media’s Family Channel is enriching its online offering and presence by extending its long-standing relationship with Disney-ABC-ESPN Television to provide users with hit Disney Channel programming on Family’s website, Family.ca. With this deal, Family Channel will feature a selection of top-rated Disney Channel Original Series such as Hannah Montana, The Suite Life On Deck and Wizards of Waverly Place, and internationally popular Disney Channel Original Movies on Family.ca.

This new content complements online offerings from Family’s existing lineup, including Canadian original series, and will be presented on a re-designed broadband player that will provide enhanced functionality for users and new opportunities for promotional partners targeting Family’s coveted demographic of 8-14 year olds.

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THQ and Relic Entertainment to Deliver Innovative Tactical Gameplay and Stunning Cinematic Visuals in Highly Anticipated Sequel

Vancouver – THQ Inc. today announced that Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, developed by the award-winning Real-time strategy (RTS) developer, Relic Entertainment, has reached the gold master stage of development and is now entering manufacturing. Set in the grim, war-ravaged world of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 science fiction universe, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II delivers visceral combat, stunning visuals, and destructible environments throughout a non-linear single-player experience as well as a fully cooperative multiplayer campaign via Microsoft’s free Games for Windows – LIVE service. Developed exclusively for Windows PC and powered by an enhanced version of Relic’s proprietary Essence Engine 2.0, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is scheduled to be on store shelves at retail outlets nationwide on February 19, 2009.

“Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II will build on the critical acclaim and commercial success of the Dawn of War franchise, letting players experience RTS gaming like never before,” said Kevin Kraff, vice president of global brand management, THQ. “Combining non-linear gameplay, cooperative multiplayer, cinematic visuals, and destructible battlefields brings a new, innovative dynamic to the genre.”
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Canada’s leading On-Demand eCommerce provider builds streamlined shopping cart checkout for online shoppers into SaaS platform

Toronto – OrderDynamics Corporation, a Canadian On-Demand eCommerce solution provider, is pleased to announce continued enhancements to its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform in order to solve the real business challenges of online merchants.

OrderDynamics Customers have another powerful eCommerce Shopping Cart feature to streamline the checkout process for their shoppers. Shopping cart abandonment occurs when shoppers leave the checkout process before completing the sale. With the click of a button, online merchants can include shipping options onto the same web form, and remove the final confirmation page, unlocking a single-page checkout while still maintaining brand flexibility, design control, and a standards-based layout.
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Canadian software publisher ParetoLogic is pleased to announce newest utility software, ParetoLogic DriverCure. This is the 11th product in the ParetoLogic product lineup which includes popular applications such as RegCure Registry Cleaner, XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware, and the award winning free PGsurfer parental controls program

Victoria BC – Recently named one of Profit Magazine’s “Hot 50”, Canadian software publisher, ParetoLogic, is the creator of the ever-popular registry cleaner RegCure and anticipates a similar level of success with its newest product, ParetoLogic DriverCure. Designed to alleviate the common problem of diagnosing outdated hardware drivers and software applications, DriverCure promises to quickly identify all the drivers and software programs on board a given computer system, indicating available updates and facilitating the download of said updates. The software features an impressive database of vendors, ensuring that even the lesser known brands of hardware (bios/motherboard, hard disk controller, network devices, CD/DVD/, ), input devices (keyboard, mouse) , and peripherals (digital camera, printer/plotter/multi-office, scanner, game controller) can be detected and updated. Read the rest of this entry »

StyleTap releases the first public preview version of StyleTap Platform for Symbian OS, which allows more than 30,000 existing mobile applications to run on the more than 150 million Symbian smartphones that have been shipped. StyleTap-compatible applications can now run on millions more devices than applications for any other mobile platform

Toronto – StyleTap Inc. today announced the release of StyleTap Platform for Symbian OS™, which allows over 30,000 existing mobile applications to run on current and future smartphones from Symbian vendors including Nokia, Samsung and Sony-Ericsson.

StyleTap Platform for Symbian OS brings the largest and most diverse library of smartphone applications to the largest community of smartphone users, with more than 150 million Symbian smartphones shipped to over 250 major network operators worldwide. StyleTap Platform is compatible with the vast majority of applications originally written for Palm OS® devices, and now enables them to also run on Symbian smartphones. This gives consumers unprecedented freedom to choose the smartphone that meets their needs while getting the most feature-rich and proven mobile applications.
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Ideas on Tap is a light business networking event for hi-tech professionals plus internet advertisers, social media marketers, bloggers, video game developers and other fans of the tech community

Vancouver – High tech professionals are preparing to get back to business after the holiday season at the upcoming Ideas on Tap event on Thursday January 22, 2009. Business over beer, that is. 6S Marketing and its partners will again host the immensely popular and unique networking event in the high tech Vancouver neighborhood of Yaletown. Ideas on Tap brings together the business and technology communities and industries in an entertaining and casual exchange of ideas.

“We were hoping that the first Ideas on Tap was going to be well received. Never did we imagine though, that a first time event would attract 250 people,” comments Chris Breikss, 6S Marketing Co-Founder and Director. “The day after the first event, our in-boxes and voicemails were flooded with people getting in touch to let us know what a great time they had. We just knew, from that point on that Ideas on Tap had to be a regular event.”
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Chapter 1 of the Trilogy Now Available on iPhone and the iPod Touch

Toronto – TransGaming Inc., announces the immediate availability of Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords®, Chapter 1: The Battle of Gruulkar at the iTunes App Store for USD$9.99.

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords is an award-winning title that has been customized for the iPhone and iPod Touch and will be uniquely released as three dynamic chapters in an episodic manner with a downward pricing model through the App Store. The trilogy gives consumers the choice of an instant-action play option or over twenty hours of immersive game play in each chapter based on an epic storyline. Delivering over eighty hours of total game play through the trilogy, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords redefines what a mobile game should deliver. This award-winning game is a must-have for casual and hard-core gaming enthusiasts.
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Wwise to be integrated into Epic’s Unreal Engine 3

Montreal – Audiokinetic Inc. and Epic Games, Inc. have announced that Wwise, the industry’s leading audio pipeline solution, is now integrated with Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 (UE3), the number one game engine for cross-platform game development. As a member of Epic’s exclusive Integrated Partners Programme (IPP), Audiokinetic provides a complete integration that will allow developers and publishers licensing UE3 to easily integrate Wwise into their development pipeline.

Wwise is a complete audio pipeline solution that features the tight integration of an advanced audio authoring tool and a robust sound engine. Designed for next-generation platforms, Wwise aims to revolutionize the traditional game audio development process and allows users to audit, profile, and modify sounds in real-time within the game itself. Wwise is presently being used in the development of 85 titles, a significant percent of which are powered by UE3.
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