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Automated Capacity Control Software provider CiRBA Inc. has announced that it will participate in a live Webcast on October 24, 2013 at 1 p.m. ET entitled “Internal Cloud Management: Bringing Order from Chaos.” This one-hour roundtable will be moderated by Barb Goldworm, president and chief analyst, FOCUS, LLC and will include Jo Maitland, research director at GigaOM Research and 15-year veteran of the IT industry, and Andrew Hillier, CiRBA’s co-founder and CTO, who has nearly 20 years of experience in the creation and implementation of mission-critical software for global organizations. Read the rest of this entry »

Working in partnership with California’s X Prize Foundation and Galactic Unite (the not-for-profit initiative of Virgin Galactic, its Future Astronaut customers and Virgin Unite), PlayLab has announced a series of rocket-building workshops for children grade 4-7, designed to inspire the next generation of space enthusiasts and innovators. Focusing on a collaborative effort to design, build and test rockets of varying designs, the workshop program helps build innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity skills and exposes children to science, engineering and aerospace technology. The workshop series will start on October 27th 2013, and run for four consecutive Sundays at Northstar Montessori Private School in Mississauga. Read the rest of this entry »

Gamercamp 2013, which is coming up in less than a month, is all set to take over Hotel Ocho in downtown Toronto (yes, the entire hotel) and fill it with gaming goodness from November 1st through 3rd. The organizers have a range of exciting activity planned for everyone from the game enthusiast to the professional developer. Gamercamp is celebrating its 5th anniversary. In the show’s five years, the organizers have brought some of the brightest, most innovative voices in the industry from across North America and Europe to Toronto, with attendance swelling from 100 attendees in the first year to an expected 2,000 this November. Read the rest of this entry »

TigerDirect.ca has a feast in store for Canadians. To mark the opening of their first retail store in Markham, TigerDirect.ca will be throwing a 10^th Anniversary Event in Canada from October 18-24, 2013. This will be the perfect opportunity for Canadians to update their gear, or get Black Friday-sized deals for holiday gifts early from TigerDirect.ca. The celebration will be honored in the brick-and-mortar locations, as well as on the retailer’s website. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) reminds stakeholders that they are invited to attend one of the focus groups that are part of the CMF’s cross-country consultation. Stakeholders can quickly and easily register online.  By registering, stakeholders can help the CMF plan the meetings according to expected attendance. This month, focus groups are being held in Montreal, Ottawa, and in the Eastern provinces. The 2013 consultation tour wraps-up in Iqaluit on November 14th. Please note that the English focus group in Moncton scheduled for October 24 has been cancelled. Read the rest of this entry »

Phase 4 Films Inc., in partnership with Cineplex Entertainment’s Front Row Centre Events, is pleased to announce an exclusive one-night presentation of Dead Before Dawn 3D. On Devil’s Night, October 30, 2013, the film will be shown exclusively at 32 Cineplex Entertainment theatres across Canada. Tickets go on sale Friday October 18th at participating theatre box offices, online and on the Cineplex mobile app. Movie-goers will have the chance to win great prizes at each participating theatre. Read the rest of this entry »

Join DigiBC and BC’s digital media and wireless community on Tuesday, October 29th for an affordable evening of networking, drinks and a showcase of some fantastic local companies. Bring your team to mix and mingle with the industry’s best. Tickets for this event are $10.00 each for DigiBC members, and $15.00 for non-members. The evening will get underway at 6:00pm when the doors open at The Imperial, and will run until 9:00pm. Thank you to this event’s sponsor ICICS and venue sponsor The Imperial.

Intelligent broadband network solutions provider for fixed and mobile operators Sandvine has announced that it will demonstrate a completely virtualized Network Policy Control system in an OpenStack framework at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Frankfurt, Germany.  Sandvine is the first Network Policy Control provider to demonstrate this technology. Read the rest of this entry »

Planning has begun for the 2014 Canadian Telecom Summit, which will take place in Toronto next June 16th through 18th. Now is the time to get in touch with the event’s organizers for speaker proposals and sponsorship inquiries. Write to Mark Goldberg: mark-at-mhgoldberg-dot-com or Michael Sone: msone-at-nbicanada-dot-com for more information. Read the rest of this entry »

On the verge of one of the most important announcements for Game Connection Europe, the press operations team is pleased to unveil who’s behind the Selected Projects evaluation process. After an outstanding number of applications – 20% up on last year, the new categories (Mobile – Tablet Handheld ; Console & PC Hardcore ; Social, Casual & Online) added for this year having established themselves successfully as a key to helping this program take off for good. Read the rest of this entry »