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Toronto-based security and identity management company Route1 Inc. has reported the overwhelming success of its TruOFFICE Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution, which answers the call from enterprise and government organizations for secure, remote desktop management.

TruOFFICE VDI, powered by Route1’s patented identity assurance and management technology, integrates directly into traditional desktop virtualization solutions to offer an unparalleled level of security. Unlike other offerings that authenticate only against a remote computer or device, Route1 utilizes multiple verifications to guarantee a specific individual’s identity. Read the rest of this entry »

Achievers (formerly I Love Rewards) has announced today that it concluded its Annual Customer Experience event (ACE) by sending a team to walk in the Shoppers Drug Mart® Weekend to End Women’s Cancers™, a fundraiser in support of Princess Margaret Hospital, one of the top five cancer research centers in the world. Every year, Achievers selects a cause to support as part of the customer conference. This year’s cause was cancer research. Read the rest of this entry »

In celebration of 10 outstanding years in business, Quebec-based business and legal templates software company Biztree has announced its plans to host an extravagant Gala Night at the panoramic rooftop terrace of Club 737 on top of 1 Place Ville-Marie, 7 PM on Friday, September 23rd.

Jonathan Defoy and Bruno Goulet founded Biztree in 2001. The company’s flagship document template software Business-in-a-Box contains 1,500 easily customizable business forms and contracts that allow companies and start-ups to write legally sound documents in minutes including business plans and employment agreements without spending valuable resources or hiring lawyers. Read the rest of this entry »

The Pythian Group, Inc., a leading provider of remote database and applications infrastructure servicesand a Platinum member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), has added the new Oracle Database Appliance to its fixed-price database migration and support offering after testing the product during the beta program.

Pythian is confident the Oracle Database Appliance will be in high demand given its unique value proposition as a simple, highly reliable and affordable database appliance that is ideally suited for small to midsized companies and departmental databases. Read the rest of this entry »

In conjunction with European and South African mobile Telco software and infrastructure provider IN-CORP SA’s Canadian subsidiary MapleTel.com, E-Debit Global Corporation  has commenced a review of the mobile payments marketplace with Capital Six Limited, its joint venture with ebackup Inc.

“We are commencing our review of our opportunities related to the mobile payments marketplace, particularly in the Canadian business space,” E-Debit Chief Executive Doug Mac Donald said in a joint statement with ebackup Inc. President Rowland Perkins. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile Fringe has launched Push a Deal, the first service to use willing consumers’ smart-phone GPS locations to send them deals when they cross the “geo-fence” and enter a participating store’s immediate vicinity. For the smartphone savvy set, this app means immediate savings on things to buy, do and eat at close proximity.

Since its launch in late 2008, Mobile Fringe has built a robust mobile retail platform that has achieved over one million user impressions through retail shopping apps such as the Toronto Eaton Centre and Yorkdale Shopping Centre apps. Now the company is using that expertise and launching a mobile location-based service where deals are presented and pushed to users who are truly in the right place at the right time. Starting in Toronto, Push a Deal will be rolling out to Canadian cities over the ensuing months. In fact, willing consumers in Vancouver and Montreal can already download the app and have existing local group deals sent to them. Read the rest of this entry »

D-BOX Technologies Inc. has a new agreement with Orange Sky Golden Harvest Entertainment Company for the installation of 19 additional D-BOX MFX Seats at one of the company’s premiere Hong Kong locations.

This latest agreement marks the second sale of D-BOX MFX Seats in Hong Kong, the first taking place earlier this year when Golden Harvest Mongkok introduced its first D-BOX auditorium, and will generate licensing fees payable to D-BOX in accordance with the systems’ use. With this installation, Golden Harvest Mongkok will boast two D-BOX auditoriums further expanding D-BOX’s footprint in Asia. Read the rest of this entry »

Preo Software Inc. has extended its contractual relationship with Xerox Corporation until June 2013. This agreement centers around using Preo’s proprietary technology in the industry’s first customer installable assessment tool that measures color area coverage on each page, real time, for Xerox’s award-winning ColorQube™ 9300 Series multifunction printer (MFP). Read the rest of this entry »

The Junior Chamber of Commerce of Montreal (JCCM) and Anges Québec join once again for a new 2011 edition of the Angel Investors Challenge. The official launch, which marks the beginning of the business plan submission period, will be celebrated at a cocktail reception on September 22^nd at 6 P.M., at the Centre d’entreprises et d’innovation de Montréal (CEIM), located at 33 Prince street in Montreal. Quebec entrepreneurs from 18 to 40 wishing to participate in the Angel Investors Challenge can find all the details and submit their application online, till October 25^th 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is preparing to launch the 32^nd edition of Small Business Week®, a BDC trademark event, under the theme: Power up your business. Invest. INNOVATE. Grow.This year, Small Business Week will run from October 16 to 22. Read the rest of this entry »