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Going Loud Studios is proud to announce that “DLC Quest” is now available on Steam for both Windows and Mac. To celebrate the successful Greenlight campaign, “DLC Quest” hits with a brand new second campaign, “Live Freemium or Die!”, as well as achievements and leaderboards. “Live Freemium or Die” is also available as a standalone title on Xbox LIVE Indie Games, launching today. Read the rest of this entry »

Loyalty and referral marketing platform solutions RewardStream has announced that James Christensen, a loyalty and marketing technology expert, joined the executive management team in January 2013. As EVP Business Development and Sales, Christensen is responsible for leading strategic growth initiatives for the company’s core products, including the company’s referral marketing solution, Spark™ and the company’s loyalty marketing platform, LMP™. Read the rest of this entry »

Sage North America announced today the results of its mobile survey, which recently polled 476 small and midsized businesses in Canada. The Sage SMB Survey on Mobile Devices (PDF) showed that Canadian business owners find the use of mobile technology to have a positive effect on their company’s productivity. Eighty-three per cent of respondents said that mobile technology has had a positive effect on their businesses, while just one per cent found mobile technology has negatively impacted their business. Moreover, 78 per cent of respondents are using devices to access work-related information. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Gordon O’Connor, Member of Parliament for Carleton – Mississippi Mills, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), today announced Government of Canada investments of up to $3.67 million to support six start-up technology development companies in the Ottawa area. Read the rest of this entry »

Independent video game studio Behaviour Interactive has announced that former Funcom Games Canada‘s CEO Migüel Caron has joined the company as Head of Studio–Online. In his new role at Behaviour, Mr. Caron will be responsible for the performance and growth of the company’s Online Studio. He will spearhead the production of both original and licensed online games in order to create growth and bolster this new market for Behaviour. Read the rest of this entry »

Zero-client cloud and virtual desktop solutions developer Userful has announced the release of their next generation virtualization solution, Userful Multiplatform. This innovation comes after more than ten years of experience with close to one million zero-client stations currently in use. Flexible and cost-effective, Userful’s multiseat computing solutions have proven their worth in education, hospitality, and business applications around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Coming up on April 1st 2013, Nimbus School of Recording Arts is launching the first annual Nimbus Mix Contest in partnership with Universal Music Canada, hosted by Indaba Music. High school students, aged 13-19 have the chance to create their own mix (or remix) of tracks from Hedley, Sam Roberts, and Karl Wolf for a chance to win a $25,000 scholarship to attend Nimbus. Starting April 1, 2013, students will be able to download the raw tracks and create their own unique mixes (or remixes). Contestants will need to upload their mixes by April 30, 2013 for public voting. Read the rest of this entry »

Perdrix Apps today is proud to announce that their first app, Perdrix TXT, is now available exclusively for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Perdrix TXT is a plain text e-book reader offering an experience close to the real book. In Perdrix TXT, the readers can turn pages in a realistic fashion, use the intuitive “book edgeways” indicator to see where they are or skip to a different place, and use a personalized bookmark like a real one. Read the rest of this entry »

Sarofax announces that their top-selling iPad Photo app – Focus Point – has been updated to included sophisticated album sorting and thumbnail labeling. Focus Point 1.3, which is available on iTunes for $3.99 USD  has been updated with sophisticated sorting and labeling. With the new features, Focus Point ups the game in the premium photo browser category. There’s simply no other app that has implemented core browsing features as advanced as Focus Point. Read the rest of this entry »

IAB Canada has announced the second in a series of reports, compiled by two respected, longstanding IAB Canada Member companies, addressing Competitive Online Advertising Trends in Canada. Prepared by comScore and Kantar Media, in partnership with IAB Canada, these reports are fueled by the two companies’ extensive Canadian paid display advertising tracking databases. The two new reports consist of 2012 year-end top-lines of key display advertising trends for several leading categories. Read the rest of this entry »