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Emmy® Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. is honoured to announce that the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has nominated four animated programs, in what is a category of five nominees, powered by Toon Boom. These animated programs include: Read the rest of this entry »

Robert Hart, President and CEO of the Canadian Cloud Council, announced the launch of their “Roadmap to the Canadian Cloud” today – a national program designed to build a stronger and more collaborative Canadian cloud ecosystem and accelerate Canada’s position as a global leader in the field of cloud computing. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re a Canadian job seeker, the traditional means to finding a job are still the most commonly used. Canadians ranked online job boards and newspaper advertisements as the most common ways to find jobs, according to a survey recently conducted by ICMA International and sponsored by Randstad Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Sandvine, a Waterloo-based provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, has announced the launch of its Peak Period Analysis Dashboard, the latest dashboard in its Network Analytics library.  Sandvine’s Peak Period Analysis Dashboard provides valuable statistics and predictions using actual network data captured within the periods of peak bandwidth usage to enable more accurate capacity planning. Read the rest of this entry »

Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software developer Prophix Software Inc. has unveiled its latest software offering: PROPHIX 10 R3. Automating and simplifying the non-transactional financial processes that drive businesses (budgeting, forecasting, planning, financial reporting, etc.), R3 is delivering greater visibility, accountability, and collaboration to allow organizations to drive proactive performance management activities. Read the rest of this entry »

Fabric Engine Inc, a Montreal-based software company focused on high-performance 2D and 3D graphics solutions, have announced Creation Platform, a framework for building custom, high-performance graphics applications. By providing the major building blocks for tool creation, Creation Platform allows developers to spend less time building back-end architectures, and more time building critical workflows and high-performance functionality into their tools.

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Canadian men and women may agree that July’s scorching temperatures have been too hot to handle, but a survey of moviegoers tell us they have very different ideas about how they’d like to spend these steamy days and nights. Asked by Cineplex Entertainment to name the movie that best represents their ideal summer, 40% of women chose the romance of Dirty Dancing. Twenty-six per cent of men, on the other hand, favoured the debauchery of American Pie. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver Animation School is proud to announce its sponsorship of two “Birds of a Feather” sessions at SIGGRAPH 2012, which is coming to the JW Marriot at LA Live in Los Angeles on August 7th. Read the rest of this entry »

Findings from Randstad‘s latest Global Workmonitor, surveying employees in 32 countries around the world, reveal that making friends at work is very important to Canadians and could be a key factor to workplace happiness. According to the survey, 66% of Canadian employees indicate they have close friendships with colleagues. Additionally, 54% report that having pleasant colleagues is more important to them than having a good salary while 53% say they spend time with colleagues outside working hours. Read the rest of this entry »

Uniserve Communications Corporation has announced their title sponsorship for the Vancouver Startup Weekend taking place this August 17^th-19^th. As the title sponsor each team involved in Vancouver Startup Weekend will be building their startup using the Uniserve Cloud platform. In addition, Uniserve will be providing the winning team free Cloud Services in an effort to help the winning team get started and running smoothly. Read the rest of this entry »