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Distribution360 has announced the sale of Blue-Zoo’s hit animated preschool series Olive the Ostrich (52 x 5’ episodes) to Nick Jr. in Australia and New Zealand, set to launch in early 2012. The series, narrated by Australian-born entertainer Rolf Harris, has been receiving stellar ratings since its September launch on Nick Jr. in the UK. Olive the Ostrich is owned and produced by UK studio Blue-Zoo. Read the rest of this entry »

The battle of the bad guys concludes as TELETOON Retro’s Top 5 Villains have been chosen. For over a month Canadian fans voted online for their favourite foes of all time. TELETOON Retro is pleased to reveal the Top 5 Villains that will be inducted into the TELETOON Retro Hall of Fame this month: Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has announced that it will debut the first official trailer for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6® Patriots during Spike TV’s 2011 “Video Game Awards” (#VGA) which telecast LIVE on Saturday December 10 at 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT on Spike TV, MTV2 and Spike.com. Read the rest of this entry »

KUKA Robotics Canada, a subsidiary of KUKA Roboter GmbH, one of the world’s leading suppliers of industrial robots, is pleased to announce the opening of their facility in Mississauga. The facility is home to KUKA Robotics Canada’s sales, applications, service and engineering staff to support customers in reviewing applications and applying robotics technologies to improve productivity and quality while reducing costs and ergonomic related injuries. Read the rest of this entry »

Big man in a furry red coat? Check. Special gifts for good boys and girls everywhere? Check. Spreading holiday cheer? More like raining holiday destruction on alien scum. Frima Studio announced today that its hit retro shoot’em up A Space Shooter for Free received an update for the holidays on the Android platform. Don’t let the furry red coat and hat fool you though – Commander Jefferson is more deadly than ever at the helm of the USS Eradicator. Read the rest of this entry »

Rock Hippo Productions announced today that Brawl Busters, the hotly-anticipated free2play online multiplayer action game, will officially launch December 15^th.  In anticipation of the impending launch, Rock Hippo Productions has released the official launch trailer and new screenshots highlighting all of the cool new features and exciting gameplay in store for fans on December 15th.   Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has announced a partnership with Xbox® to offer a price promotion across a large library of digital games on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Microsoft Xbox 360®, in honor of the company’s 25th anniversary in the video game industry. The price promotion ends Tuesday, December 13, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

With Trend Micro threat analysts predicting that online shopping risks this year may be even greater due to the popular boom in mobile shopping, Canadians continue to embrace on line shopping in record numbers. Read the rest of this entry »

Secure digital media distribution company YANGAROO Inc. has announced the completion of an integration with Ad-ID, the unique ad identifier developed by the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4 A’s) and the Association of National Advertisers, Inc. (ANA). Read the rest of this entry »

While pressured to adopt new mobile technologies and implement access to social media, 83% of Canadian companies are concerned with heightened tech risks, says a new report from Ernst & Young. Conversely, 63% reported that they don’t have sufficient budget to appropriately secure their IT infrastructure. Clearly, this trend cannot continue indefinitely without negative consequences appearing somewhere down the road. Read the rest of this entry »