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Strum is a platform that connects customers directly with local business owners. Strum’s patent-pending architecture makes it super-easy for customers to locate and send messages to their favourite businesses, tag specific employees for great service and send private or public messages to business owners directly. Strum enables customers to earn Strum Points for their activity and use those points to bid on great local goods and services in the Strum Auction. Employees noted for Great Service earn Strum Points too. For businesses, Strum offers a robust, cloud-based tool to engage with the customers that love them, recognize their ‘rock-star’ employees, and give their regular customers more attention and rewards. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto developer Nexonia has announced integration between its Expense Reports solution and Google Maps for better mileage reporting. Thanks to this seamless integration, when creating a mileage line within an expense report Nexonia users will have a map automatically generated. The distance and mileage rate are also provided automatically. Map generation is available on both web and mobile applications (iOS, Android and BlackBerry 10) and the employee can also edit the distance calculated by Google. Nexonia supports optional odometer tracking, built right into their web and mobile apps. Read the rest of this entry »

Help castaway hero Johnny Calm battle for survival and sanity against hordes of vicious sea creatures and ocean hazards in the re-imagined Super Waves Survivor for iPad. Apple users receive the premium version of this game featuring remastered HD sprites, enhanced physics, all new menu system, additional gameplay features, and numerous improvements. Starting in a rowboat with an oar, the rules are simple: move, jump, attack and crush enemies Mario style while staying ahead of the hungry shark with a case of the nom-nom-noms! Johnny can also earn treasures from mermaids and collect golden coins to employ crazy super moves and upgrades. Read the rest of this entry »

Dark House Films, Inc. has announced two independent feature films from director Manuel H. Da Silva (The Unleashed, Cycle of Fear: There is No End) – Hush Now and Ingress. Ingress is Da Silva’s third film, based on the screenplay by Diane DaSilva and L. A. Lopes and produced by Diane Da Silva (The Unleashed). Director of Photography: Jay Guerriere (The Unleashed). Hush Now is his fourth film. Produced by Diane Da Silva, Hush Now was co-written by Craig Stewart and Jessica Toombs. Read the rest of this entry »

In 2012, The Missing Children Society of Canada (MCSC) introduced The World’s Most Valuable Social Network – the first online search party that allows Canadians to “donate” their Facebook or Twitter newsfeed as a vehicle for raising awareness when a child goes missing. The World’s Most Valuable Social Network has assisted in the safe return of six missing children since its launch, and the tool is expanding to include Pinterest and Foursquare in the search for missing children. Up to 50,000 children are reported missing in Canada every year. Today, leading up to International Missing Children’s Day (May 25^th), MCSC is expanding The Most Valuable Project with the launch of two new digital tools: Most Valuable Check-In and Most Valuable Pinboard. Read the rest of this entry »

SalesWays launched the innovative and patented ASPEC sales tracking and opportunity management app in December of 2012 for the iPhone and Cloud. Since then, thousands of people have signed up for ASPEC either on mobile or directly in the Cloud. ASPEC Mobile 1.2, available this week, now includes French, Spanish, and Italian languages to add to the English, German, and Portuguese languages currently available. Business users will appreciate the increased functionality of being able to assign additional roles to users so information can be filtered to maintain security while assuring everyone has all the information they need to succeed at increasing their sales productivity. Read the rest of this entry »

San Francisco developer Elgato has announced that Game Capture HD, a powerful, full-featured game recorder, is now available at 140 Future Shop retail locations from coast to coast and on the Future Shop web site. The Elgato Game Capture HD is the leading solution to record console gameplay and will complement Future Shop’s existing lineup of XBox and PlayStation accessories at an MSRP of $189.99 CAD. The software application required to use the Elgato Game Capture HD is available as a free download. Read the rest of this entry »

Players all over the world fell in love with many memorable, adventure-filled moments in the well-received Donkey Kong Country Returns game for Wii: jumping around the game’s lush and colourful side-scrolling levels; clinging to the side of a swinging platform; riding on a speeding mine cart; and leaping from barrel to barrel between foreground and background. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, launching May 24 for the Nintendo 3DS system, includes all these great moments, but also offers players a host of new features that were not available in the original Wii game and a beautiful new 3D makeover that makes the graphics look more impressive than ever before. Read the rest of this entry »

Tubetime has announced the launch of the Android version of its all-in-one TV app, now available on Google Play. Tubetime delivers a unique second screen TV experience, including a complete TV guide and universal remote features. A majority of Canadian TV lovers can now enjoy Tubetime by downloading the free app either on the App Store or Google Play. Read the rest of this entry »

Dundas Data Visualization has released their solution for the Microsoft SharePoint 2013 portal, further establishing them as a leader in the Microsoft business intelligence stack. This new solution allows users to add powerful and interactive dashboards directly to their Microsoft SharePoint portal by visualizing both the native SharePoint lists as well as any additional databases, spreadsheets and data warehouses that the user may want to display on a dashboard. Read the rest of this entry »