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Building on the success of the Ball-Hop game series, Renown Entertainment has released a free, two year anniversary edition for Apple touch devices with exclusive features. Loyal fans and new players alike receive all-new high definition themes, balls, and prizes to redeem. Additional upgrades include super accurate physics, faster restarts and loading, re-tuned swipe controls, improved accuracy, custom sensitivity settings, and support for all screen resolutions including iPhone 5. Best of all, enjoy unlimited play without the need to buy tokens or wait for timers. Ball-Hop Anniversary Edition is the definitive skee ball style game on the Apple App Store. Read the rest of this entry »

Market-leading social media management system developer HootSuite plugs even more into its App Directory today with the introduction of SurveyMonkey, the leading online survey and questionnaire platform, Chartbeat, the real-time web and analytics tool for publishers, and ContentGems content marketing software. Built for business, the App Directory now features 55 popular tools and apps, including Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr, Evernote, MailChimp, Zendesk, Yammer, Statigram and more. Social media practitioners from the world’s largest brands, including marketers, publishers, community managers, market researchers, customer support teams, and agencies no longer have to leave the HootSuite dashboard to access these popular tools, increasing productivity and efficiency and avoiding having to switch back and forth between browser tabs. Instead users can manage their social media profiles, marketing campaigns, surveys and more within HootSuite. Read the rest of this entry »

Category management specialist ToolBox Solutions has announced the launch of the latest version of ToolBox Advantage^TM.  This upgrade incorporates significant changes and key enhancements on a number of ToolBox Advantage reports, delivering upgraded user experience. Using new technology, ToolBox Solutions has taken the most advanced Category Management reporting platform in the world to the next level. Some of the key elements of the release include updated design with a cleaner look and improved functionality. This provides even faster performance on report execution and an overall remarkable user experience. Read the rest of this entry »

The Thinking Skills Club, a Toronto-based website with 6 categories of cognitive games for children aged 7-12, is offering complementary summer memberships to introduce the site. Members can not only play the games but can build a Brain Puzzle on the website to track their progress. Read the rest of this entry »

Take-Two Interactive Software label Rockstar Games and TransGaming Inc. have partnered to bring Rockstar Games’ cinematic action-shooter Max Payne 3 t0 the Mac platform through TransGaming’s proprietary game enablement technology. This latest title in the groundbreaking series known for bringing Bullet Time, noir atmosphere and Hong Kong action movie aesthetics to video games combines highly sophisticated shooting mechanics and fluid movement with a dark, twisted narrative, and intensely cinematic presentation. Read the rest of this entry »

Mississauga-based social networking site for the event and trade show communities TradeShowConnection has announced the debut of its revolutionary client services feature. All users will now have option to retain a dedicated service agent to assist them with their trade show needs. The addition of consultation services greatly enhances the user experience and streamlines the event management process. The new service agents will help users boost event visibility through a variety of methods. Each agent will be responsible for setting up user profiles, optimizing keywords, building contact lists and promoting the even on all social networking channels. Read the rest of this entry »

ACIS Consulting Inc., a Toronto-based provider of search technology services, has launched a free cloud based interactive Directory of Canadian Business and Trade Associations as a showcase of its Membership Product Promotion Platform (M3P) service offering. The Directory of Canadian Associations is used to search and quickly find associations by name, by location, by category or even by a given topic or search keyword of interest. If a researcher is looking for Vancouver based associations that discuss “environmental services” these can be discovered with three clicks of the mouse. Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook has become a powerhouse marketing tool for businesses worldwide. There are more than 1.1 billion active Facebook users all over the world – this is a 23% increase from one year ago. If a small business owner has been doubting the viability of Facebook – these stats are too great to ignore. If utilized properly, Facebook can be a valuable asset in generating new leads – which could turn into paying customers. However many business owners are afraid of social media and have not learned how to use it to their advantage. Read the rest of this entry »

Snipp Interactive Inc., a Vancouver-based provider of mobile marketing solutions listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, has announced the launch of SnippQR, a free custom QR code generator. Users can create unlimited number of codes with no restrictions on the number of scans per code and all QR codes can be created in high-resolution, print-ready formats. Read the rest of this entry »

Webtech Wireless Inc., a Vancouver-based provider of vehicle fleet location-based services (LBS) and telematics technology, today announced the release of its MDT 3100 In-Cab mobile data terminal, version 2.5 with new capabilities enabling enhanced truck navigation. In partnership with ALK Technologies, a New Jersey-based specialist in GeoLogistics™ and navigation software, Webtech Wireless is offering ALK Technologies’ CoPilot® Truck™ in-cab navigation solution as part of the MDT 3100 and Quadrant Manager. Read the rest of this entry »