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Stinger Foosball League 1.0 has been released exclusively on the App Store for $1.99. The game redefines foosball apps on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Featuring dynamic 3D physics and AI, stunning graphics, 52 international teams and the ability to create your own fully customized team. Also featuring tournament mode, multi-player (local WiFi, Bluetooth, and split-screen for iPad), four mini-games, stats and both Game Center and OpenFeint for Achievements and Leaderboards. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday at f8, Kobo announced the next advancement in social eReading that will provide people with the ability to engage in conversations with each other while reading, as well as a Facebook integration that makes it easier for people to feature their eReading activity on their Facebook profile. Read the rest of this entry »

TEDxVancouver is pleased to announce the first of several exciting speakers in the 2011 lineup.  The concept for this year’s event is “The Frontier” – a topic selected as a reflection of the new wonders undreamt of in our time. This year’s TEDxVancouver event is designed to be a love letter to knowledge and innovation. Like TED’s own mission, “The Frontier” represents boundless possibility and ideas worth spreading. The living boundary with the unknown.

On November 12, 2011, TEDxVancouver celebrates its third annual event with an outstanding line-up of thought provoking talks. Presenters at TEDxVancouver are hand picked for their inspired thinking and world acclaimed accomplishments, and in the TED and TEDx tradition, each is challenged to give “the talk of their life” in 18 minutes or less. Other speakers will be announced in the coming weeks. Applications to attend TEDxVancouver are still being accepted. Read the rest of this entry »

Apparently Thinware Media Ltd is very busy at the Ottawa Animation Festival – here is another partnership announcement from the company, this time with Australia’s StudioEngine.com, a ‘Studio-as-a-Service’ production facility for on-demand use by producers, animation, visual effects (VFX), and post-production teams. This partnership will add StudioCAP cloud-based, project and asset management into the StudioEngine workflow pipeline. Read the rest of this entry »

Thinware Media Ltd., developers of StudioCAP workflow automation and asset management for animation studios, and TVPaint Développment, France, makers of 2D bitmap-based animation software, has announced a new strategic partnership that will offer customers a seamless technology integration.  TVPaint animators and artists will be able to create and manage their 2D animation assets in a streamlined production pipeline, completely managed via StudioCAP cloud computing asset management. Read the rest of this entry »

Just in time for the new Fall season, CTV’s new App for iPad is now available on the App Store. The app lets users enter a unique, curated chat environment that includes tweets from cast members, Facebook comments and other insider and public commentary from across the social web, acting as a companion during primetime television shows. The CTV social app also allows users to stream on-demand a long list of CTV and CTV Two’s new programs and returning hits in primetime, late-night and daytime. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based Fleetly has announced the launch of a new fitness app that analyzes your goals, body, and workout history, along with the combined results of all users, to benchmark your changing Fitness Level – all while challenging you to compete for bragging rights on leaderboards. Whatever your Fitness Level or goal, Fleetly monitors your progress, plateaus and your training log – from time exercised, to weight lifted, to distance run – to provide recommendations that continually change based on your progress. The app is available today for free on the web and for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch from iTunes. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s East Side Games has acquired local games studio Compass Engine. This marks East Side Games’ first acquisition since officially forming earlier this summer. Established in 2009 by Ben Hesketh and McElroy Flavelle, Compass Engine started out building a platform for location based games before deciding to focus on the creating of their own titles for the iOS platform, namely ‘Catch the Canary’ and ‘Bounty Island’. Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa could better foster business innovation in Canada by creating a competitive tax system across the entire innovation value chain, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In Rewarding Innovation: Improving Federal Tax Support for Business R&D in Canada, author Mark Parsons says Ottawa should focus its efforts on improving the tax treatment of the fruits of innovation – income from intellectual property and production of new goods and services – while maintaining incentives for investment in research and development. Read the rest of this entry »

EastLink is once again proving it is an innovator and industry leader, announcing today that it is one of the first in North America to provide 3D capability for its video customers across the country. EastLink first broadcast movie and live sports 3D programming over its fibre network late last year, confirming the company’s system is ready to handle the growing 3D content being produced by movie studios and TV networks. Read the rest of this entry »