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2008
Our congratulations to the Cinematics team at Bioware – Mass Effect was honored with the award for the 2008 Mackie for Outstanding Achievement in Game Cinematics from the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences Film Festival in New York over the November 1st weekend.
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November
2008
Vancouver – Flarium Ltd. announced today the release of FlashSlider 4.3 – easy to use tool for creating flash slideshow creation.
FlashSlider 4.3 is a tool for easy creating flash slideshows with digital images, transition effects, background music, captions and navigation buttons and publishing them to the Web.
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November
2008
Ubisoft will be visiting Richmond Centre Mall in Richmond, BC on November 14 and 15 then heading over to the West Edmonton Mall for November 22 and 23rd. Gamers are invited to come out and experience Shaun White and Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party on the Wii as well as Far Cry 2 on the Xbox 360.
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November
2008
Vancouver – Zeugma Systems, a privately held supplier of open telecommunications solutions, today announced the Zeugma Smart™ Series applications that run within the highly flexible Zeugma Open Application Sandbox (OAS), which facilitates rapid, cost-effective development of new services. SmartVideo™, the first application in the Smart Series, enables service providers to monetize the video traffic already traversing their networks by creating a high-quality, always-available premium internet video service that they can sell to their residential customers for an incremental fee. SmartVideo enables service providers to turn streaming internet video into a premium opt-in video experience by identifying and allocating the appropriate amount of bandwidth to video traffic, including high-definition (HD) video, yielding a viewing experience approaching that of a locally attached DVD player.
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November
2008
Toronto – QuickPlay Media, the premier provider of mobile TV and video solutions, today announced that it has been named as a finalist in the “Service Provider Innovation” category in the First Annual TelcoTV Vision Awards. The awards recognize the most innovative and “visionary” new products, services or applications announced in the communications industry in the past year. QuickPlay Media is being recognized for its role in powering Rogers Vision, Canada’s first fully-integrated mobile video and radio service offered exclusively from the region’s largest wireless provider of voice and data services, Rogers Wireless.
“The past year has witnessed an unprecedented mobile evolution, which includes growing adoption of mobile TV and video services such as Rogers Vision. To be recognized for the work we have done with Rogers is a tremendous honor,” said Wayne Purboo, CEO of QuickPlay Media. “Looking forward, we expect more and more companies from around the globe to turn to our quick-to-deploy, flexible mobile video solutions to deliver their customers high quality entertainment experiences that match their unique interests.”
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November
2008
EA Brings Need for Speed to Life in Next Summer’s Biggest Drift and Time Attack Racing Event
London to Host Need for Speed Live 2009 International Race Event
Today at the SEMA show in Las Vegas, Electronic Arts Inc. announced Need for Speed™ Live, a unique festival and competition that celebrates car culture. This first-time event, which is still being negotiated, will be open to the public and will be hosted next summer at the world famous Brands Hatch Circuit located near London, England. The weekend-long experience will be a showcase of entertainment, videogames, music, car shows and displays designed to appeal to fans of racing games, proud owners of hot vehicles, fans of exotic cars and motorsports enthusiasts.
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