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Explore the profound impact of the two World Wars on ordinary people of New Brunswick in New Brunswickers in Wartime, 1914-1946, the new exhibition opened yesterday at the Canadian War Museum. The exhibit features the personal stories of individuals who served in uniform or in wartime industries, and those who supported the war from home. It also examines the people’s readjustment to civilian life at war’s end. Organized and first presented by the New Brunswick Museum, the exhibition was adapted by the War Museum for its presentation in Ottawa. Read the rest of this entry »

uptime software, Inc., a leader in IT systems performance, availability and capacity management software for midmarket and enterprise organizations, has announced up.time Small Business Edition (SBE), a deep, easy-to-use and powerful IT systems monitoring and management suite designed for small and medium businesses (SMB). up.time SBE is uptime software’s first foray into the lucrative SMB market and delivers full server and application monitoring and reporting across a myriad of platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Security and compliance solution provider TITUS has announced the availability of a free limited version of TITUS Aware. This free download allows organizations to prevent the accidental leakage of personally identifiable information, such as credit card and social security numbers. Read the rest of this entry »

Firmware-embedded endpoint security and management solutions provider Absolute^®Software Corporation has identified one of their largest education customers, Detroit Public Schools (DPS), as a national leader in using secure asset tracking software to help recover stolen educational technology equipment. Read the rest of this entry »

Bombardier, BMO Financial Group, Youth Fusion, FIRST Robotics Quebec and Montreal Hooked on School, alongside partners from the education community, are proud to announce the first Robotics Festival in Quebec, which will take place on March 15-17, 2012 at the Uniprix Stadium in Montreal. This remarkable event will bring together more than 5000 people from 67 schools across the province, and will showcase the accomplishments of elementary and high school students as they compete in high-caliber technological challenges.  The FIRST acronym: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Read the rest of this entry »

Twilio, a San Francisco-based cloud communications company, announced today the ability of Canadian phone numbers to be used with its SMS API, enabling software developers to build applications that send and receive text messages with Canadian phone numbers. SMS is now turned on for existing Canadian Twilio numbers effectively immediately, and this is built into all new numbers purchased through the web-interface or REST API. Read the rest of this entry »

Twenty high school students from two Markham area high schools will get to spend a morning with professional engineers experiencing innovative technology that could inspire them to choose exciting careers in engineering. Quanser Inc., a leading engineering company dedicated to advancing engineering education and research, will host students from St. Robert Catholic High School and Saint Brother Andre Catholic High School at their headquarters in Markham on Friday, December 16^th, 2011 at 7:00 am. Read the rest of this entry »

CDW Canada, provider of technology solutions for Canadian organizations in the public and private sectors, today launched its fourth annual Teaching with Technology™ Contest, providing Canadian educators, school administrators and IT staff the opportunity to win information technology for their classrooms and schools*. With a total prize value of $21,000 this year, the contest begins today and runs until Wednesday, February 29, 2012. This year’s contest also features a new video component, allowing educators to submit video entries. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenText™ has been named a Leader in the latest Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management,” based on the company’s ability to execute and its completeness of vision and that Forrester Research, Inc. has positioned it as a Leader in its November 2011 report, “The Forrester Wave^TM: Enterprise Content Management, Q4 2011.” Read the rest of this entry »

Tokyo’s CDN Solutions and Vancouver-based Strangeloop Networks have announced a partnership to offer a combined solution of content delivery and front-end optimization (FEO) services, allowing online content providers in Japan to make their pages load even faster for their visitors. Read the rest of this entry »