Village Gamer

Article is a cross-post with the author’s blog bewareoftheleopard.ca

This past weekend the Documentary Organization of Canada – Toronto Chapter held docSHIFT Summit 2011, a conference with the purpose of educating and supporting documentary filmmakers who are looking to leverage their storytelling abilities and position themselves as the go-to people in this new and evolving marketplace. Read the rest of this entry »

The Ontario Science Centre is seeking nominations for the prestigious annual Weston Youth Innovation Award. Created to encourage and recognize young Canadian innovators, the award provides students aged 14 to 18 a unique vehicle to share their ideas and be featured at one of Canada’s most popular attractions. Read the rest of this entry »

The latest edition of the Norton Online Family Report sheds new light on the realities and risks of growing up in the digital age. This year’s report identifies the new issue of “cyberbaiting,” a growing phenomenon where kids taunt their teachers, then capture the distressed reactions via cell phone videos. In addition, the report reveals a surprisingly high number of kids taking liberties with their parents’ credit cards for shopping online. However, it’s not all bad news: the report shows that following clearly stated house rules for proper Internet behavior can make a significant impact in averting negative online experiences. Read the rest of this entry »

Communitech has marked another year of progress with its Annual General Meeting, welcoming industry luminaries to its Board of Directors and honouring the 2011 Tech Impact Award winner, VeloCity. Read the rest of this entry »

Disk encryption innovator WinMagic^® has been named as a data security supplier for the United States Army Golden Master (AGM) program. WinMagic’s SecureDoc full-disk encryption (FDE) software will protect all data at rest for the United States Army and its customers purchasing a Mac for use on LandWarNET, the U.S. Army’s portion of the global information grid (GIG) which consists of all globally-interconnected, end-to-end Army information capabilities supporting war fighters, policy makers, and support personnel. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenText™ has announced OpenText Tempo, a fast, easy and secure document sharing solution that allows enterprise users to share and manage content in secure folders on smartphones, tablets, and PCs or laptops.  Beginning in January 2012, OpenText Tempo will allow users to access, share and modify content while it is instantly and automatically synchronized across all of their computers and mobile devices.  Read the rest of this entry »

Next season, visitors to Canada’s Wonderland will be transported back in time to periods between 245 million and 65 million years ago in one of the world’s largest animatronic dinosaur parks – Dinosaurs Alive!  More than 40 life-sized animatronic dinosaurs set in a seven acre outdoor Jurassic themed environment will make up this first class interactive exhibit. Read the rest of this entry »

Trend Micro threat researchers are seeing a significant shift from mass compromises to targeted attacks, particularly against large enterprises and government institutions. According to Trend Micro’s Third Quarter Threat Report, their work led them to the uncovering of one of the most notable groups of targeted attacks during the third quarter – the LURID downloader. Read the rest of this entry »

Klipfolio Inc. has announced a new partnership with software consulting and development company MAP Teams. Based in Indonesia, MAP Teams is a multi-disciplinary firm that consults, manages, integrates, develops, and tests business intelligence (BI) and dashboard projects. Read the rest of this entry »

World Book’s Building Blocks of Science characters have been kidnapped by an Evil Scientist–the dastardly Dr. Edwin Quark. Gasp! He has hidden the Building Blocks of Science characters throughout the universe and World Book needs help in finding them in time to publish the 10-volume series. Read the rest of this entry »