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Meanwhile in Vancouver, residential energy management product developer Rainforest Automation unveiled its new SWIFT™ Smart Energy Wireless Information Terminal product along with Bit Stew’s Grid Director 2.0 Device Management Platform.  The SWIFT™ is a Home Area Network (HAN) device that displays home energy use on an 8-inch color touch screen.  It comes bundled with Rainforest’s popular RAVEn™ USB adapter that communicates directly with smart meters that have been equipped with ZigBee® Smart Energy Profile (SEP) 1.x wireless capability.  The SWIFT™ also has a built-in Wi-Fi radio with gateway software based on the preliminary version of SEP 2.0 recently approved by the ZigBee® Alliance. Read the rest of this entry »

With an impressive array of applications, IT mounts and flashing lights brought together in a Dodge Charger, Mobile Innovations launched its MPAInVehicle Platform with the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet on the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) trade show floor in Chicago yesterday morning. Read the rest of this entry »

Crowd Intelligence solutions provider Chaordix and social ideation community Genius Crowds have announced a new partnership aimed at jointly providing a greater choice of crowdsourcing engagement options for enterprises. Read the rest of this entry »

Media monitoring service FPinfomart has announced that it has teamed up with Social Media Group to offer FPinfomart clients access to a full suite of integrated social media measurement, analysis and consulting services. Social Media Group is a full-service social media agency that provides research and analysis to some of the world’s biggest brands. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto-based Just-Eat Canada Inc., Canada’s largest and fastest growing online food ordering service, has acquired the business of GrubCanada Inc. Just-Eat Canada is part of Just-Eat Group, the global leader in online food ordering. With this acquisition, Just-Eat is able to offer online consumers access to over 1,000 delivery restaurants across the country, giving busy Canadians more options than ever for quick, time-saving delivery and takeaway meals. Read the rest of this entry »

MediaSpark CEO Mathew Georghiou made a series of announcements late last week about the company’s GoVenture Any Business educational simulation, which has already received a Gold Omni Award with a perfect 10.0 judging score.  Unlike other business simulations, Any Business allows teachers and corporate trainers to create highly-customized, online, head-to-head, multiplayer business simulations for any product in any industry and in any market.  Simulations can be designed to model current events, historical successes and failures, or to target specific challenges and learning outcomes. Read the rest of this entry »

Dx3 Canada has announced a partnership with Moneris Solutions which will see the introduction of the Moneris Small Business Zone at Dx3 Canada, January 25-26, 2012 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The Zone will feature a selection of solution providers for SME’s as well as a series of free to attend seminars delivered by Moneris, Rogers Communications, Yelp and bizlaunch.ca, with topics ranging from “building a successful website for small business” to “making ‘cents’ of social media”. Read the rest of this entry »

Signature Entertainment announced today that it has completed the majority of its operational retooling of its parent company and its international subsidiaries.  The retooling is as detailed below:

•   Signature Beijing, located at the IBM Tower at Pacific Century Place, has been sold with operational turnover having taken place on October 14th.  With this sale, Signature has exited the Chinese language sports marketplace after eight years.  Chinese language content for fashion television will now be produced in Europe at Signature Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »

ESAC has released its 2011 edition of the Essential Facts report on the Canadian Entertainment Software industry, which is available now as a downloadable PDF. This booklet provides a great overview of some of the key stats and information about the Canadian video game industry. What’s the average age of a Canadian gamer? How many studios are there in Canada? How big is Canada’s video game industry? How do we stack up in the world? These questions, among others, are answered in the new report, and also includes other important bits of information such as: Read the rest of this entry »

Writer, producer and director Thomas Newman put himself through hell for almost 4 years in making his ultra low budget epic zombie film ‘Bong Of The Dead‘, and he has kept surprising everyone as his little film that could, did just that. Newman’s film has garnered glowing reviews from around the world in magazines, on television, film festivals, fan sites and more. This while Newman paid the bills by stocking shelves, building decks, scrubbing toilets and any other job he could muster. Read the rest of this entry »