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For Canadian small businesses, accounting and payroll are massive headaches. Recognizing this, and in the spirit of giving Canadian small businesses a break, Kashoo, a Vancouver-based provider of small business cloud accounting software, and PaymentEvolution, a Toronto-based payroll services provider, are teaming up to bring their respective services to Canadian small businesses in one nifty, integrated package. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s InfoLogic, Inc. has released MathMagic Personal Edition 8.0, a major update to their award-winning, professional equation editor for Mac OS X. This version now supports Apple’s new iBooks Author, as well as other iApps, including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Read the rest of this entry »

Testing and training platform provider Yardstick is thrilled to announce the launch of BoatExams.com, operated by the Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons and powered by Yardstick’s Learning Management Platform. The website is well on its way to becoming the number one choice for boating enthusiasts to obtain a Transport Canada approved Pleasure Craft Operator Card (PCOC – Boater License). Read the rest of this entry »

This month, attend Profit By Design to unlock the power of design for your business with this intimate gathering of design and business innovators. Taking place at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver this February 24^th and 25^th, Profit By Design is an exclusive two day product development and innovation conference and workshop. Experience unprecedented access as some of North America’s leading ‘Design First’ corporations divulge their business innovation, leadership methods, and practices of signature success. Read the rest of this entry »

PDFConverter.com is a Vancouver-based developer of desktop software for PDF creation, editing and conversion. The company is now pleased to announce the release of a fully free online PDF Converter. This new  online PDF conversion service enables the users to create and convert PDF documents to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats without any cost. Read the rest of this entry »

The Haskayne School of Business and the Department of Economics at the University of Calgary are delighted to announce the new Centre for the Digital Economy (CDE@) sited at the University of Calgary’s downtown campus. Read the rest of this entry »

ICEsoft Technologies Inc., a supplier of open source technologies for enterprise, is has announced the release of ICEfaces 3.0, an open-source Rich Internet Application (RIA) solution for enterprise. Based on Java Server Faces (JSF) 2, ICEfaces provides developers with the most comprehensive JSF component offering built on top of a powerful, standards-based framework capable of innovative features such as Ajax Push and Automatic Ajax. Read the rest of this entry »

The 7th Annual Vancouver Women in Film Festival 2012 (VWIFF), presented by Women In Film & Television Vancouver (WIFTV), celebrates the kick off on International Women’s Day commencing Thursday, March 8 to Sunday, March 11, with the Women In Film & Television International (WIFTI) short film spotlight screenings on March 8. All events take place at the Vancity Theatre, which is located at 1181 Seymour Street in Vancouver. Tickets are on sale now. Read the rest of this entry »

Senomix Software Inc. has released Senomix Timesheets v4.1, adding project expense tracking and employee expense claim entry to their Mac OS X and Windows time tracking system for small and mid-sized businesses. With the addition of expense tracking, Senomix Timesheets can now be used to record project costs through the same applications provided to track employee effort hours. Read the rest of this entry »

Corel has announced the release of its first Roxio® product, Roxio® Easy VHS to DVD 3 Plus. For anyone who has precious memories on video tape, the new Roxio Easy VHS to DVD 3 Plus bridges the gap between old and new by making it simple to preserve and share VHS, Hi8 and V8 in today’s digital video formats – whether you’re burning a DVD, sharing on YouTube™ and Facebook®, or saving to mobile devices like iPhone®. Read the rest of this entry »