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Loud Crow Interactive has announced that Verso Story Engine, the framework used to create multiple award-winning apps, such as “Goodnight Moon,” “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” “Marvel Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII,” “The Going to Bed Book,” and “PopOut! The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” is now available for free license under a Beta program. Read the rest of this entry »

Reloaded Interactive, one of the World’s largest in-game ad companies, has announced the launch of a dynamic in-game advertising network that is capable of delivering real-time ads within AAA game titles for console, mobile, and PC platforms. The new network utilizes Reloaded’s ad servers and technology to display advertisements to gamers playing with an active internet connection. Reloaded plans to be the first ever in-game advertising network to support dynamic delivery into select eighth generation game consoles by the end of 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

mpengo Ltd.™, creator of Apps for the Mobile Professional, introduces mpengo ServiceSheet for everyone in trades who uses service checklists. It’s the latest in the mpengo suite of apps specializing in on-site mobile solutions for service and construction trades and designers. If you are in a service trade business, your work almost always includes running through a checklist of items for customers. Whether you are in HVAC, run a repair business, are an on-site inspector or a car mechanic, or in any of the hundreds of service businesses, mpengo ServiceSheet will make your work easier and improve your customer service. Read the rest of this entry »

LightSpeed, a Montreal software company revolutionizing the in-store shopping experience, today announced the launch of LightSpeed Cloud, a web-based retail management and point of sale (POS) solution that boasts a fully-featured iPad app, as well as the acquisition of MerchantOS. Read the rest of this entry »

Kobo has announced that its Kobo Writing Life (KWL) self-publishing platform now offers advanced features that enable authors to easily create eBooks and edit their work directly within the KWL text editor. Since its launch in July of last year, KWL has attracted more than 17,600 authors who have published more than 100,000 titles available in 184 countries and in 54 languages. New KWL features enable authors to create eBooks directly within the KWL platform, avoiding time-consuming conversion processes when editing their work. Read the rest of this entry »

Denny’s Canada is excited to announce the launch of their new loyalty and rewards program – MyDenny’s, a new social, loyalty platform connecting me, you & Denny’s. It’s definitely not just a loyalty program in the dictionary sense of the term. It offers mobile rewards, exclusive offers, and is a social platform all-in-one. Read the rest of this entry »

Secure digital media management company YANGAROO Inc. has announced a partnership with Los Angeles-based RAMP (Radio and Music Pros), a prominent music industry trade publication. This alliance will now provide the industry in the U.S. expanded access to YANGAROO’s Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) platform to deliver music to radio, and other destinations as well as the ability to deliver music videos to all major national and regional television broadcasters in North America. This partnership will also provide DMDS with the most comprehensive radio lists available, setting a new standard for radio distribution of promotional music. Read the rest of this entry »

Univa data centre automation company and developer of Grid Engine has announced a partnership with Hadoop technology leader MapR Technologies to integrate Univa Grid Engine with the MapR enterprise platform. The partnership enables customers to leverage the MapR Distribution for Hadoop in conjunction with Univa Grid Engine capabilities of policy control management and infrastructure sharing to run mixed workloads with insightful enterprise reporting and analytics. Read the rest of this entry »

British Columbia representatives are in the spotlight as tens of thousands of participants converge on Anaheim for SIGGRAPH 2013, the place to be if you work with computer graphics and interactive technologies. B.C. is preparing to host SIGGRAPH 2014, the 40th anniversary edition of the influential event next year in Vancouver, which became the first location to host SIGGRAPH North America outside of the United States in 2011. That event welcomed 15,872 artists, research scientists, game developers, filmmakers and researchers from 74 countries. SIGGRAPH 2011 broke the city’s previous conference attendance records and, according to the Vancouver Convention Centre, generated an estimated $38.5 million in direct spending for the local economy. Read the rest of this entry »

US-based blurbIQ Inc., whose patent-pending interactive video advertising platform allows advertisers and publishers to use dynamic overlay to drive consumers to interact with their video messaging, today announced that SourceKnowledge, a Montreal-based online video company that reaches more than 26.2 million monthly users and serves over 100 million video streams a month in the USA and Canada, has begun to offer its advertising clients blurbIQ’s interactive video ad units.  Read the rest of this entry »