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Winnipeg’s first and only makerspace, AssentWorks, will open on October 27th, and you’re invited to the party, which will take place from 4:00p.m. until 8:00p.m.. AssentWorks will be a place where inventors, engineers, designers and business people can create practically anything using space-age and modern equipment. It is a public, non-profit organization, aimed at supporting and benefiting Manitoban business today, and in the future. Read the rest of this entry »

Presagia, a Montreal-based developer of SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions for workforce health and absence management, today announced the launch of SimplyLeave, an innovative and comprehensive leave management software for small and mid-sized employers. SimplyLeave is a SaaS solution that supports employers’ efforts to comply with the FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act) and State Family and Medical Leave legislation. It comes pre-configured with standard State and Federal leave rules, best-practice workflows supported with wizards and auto-generating ‘next steps’, and leave letter templates. Read the rest of this entry »

CDI College is pleased to announce the recent opening of two new campuses in Mississauga and Scarborough in response to the growing demand for trained professionals throughout the province. Ontario’s rapidly evolving business, technology and healthcare sectors have created increased demand for well-trained candidates that can hit the ground running. As one of Canada’s premiere career-training providers, CDI College carefully develops its market-driven programs to help students build the skills currently in demand by Canada’s leading employers. Read the rest of this entry »

Hatsize, a Calgary-based cloud automation software provider for hands-on demos and training, has announced the general availability of its flagship product, Hatsize 3.11. Designed in collaboration with leading customers’ input, Hatsize 3.11 provides a new set of advanced capabilities to demo and train technology products to anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world as a hosted cloud service. Read the rest of this entry »

Rural broadband service provider Xplornet Communications Inc. has co-signed an open letter that calls on the Minister of Industry, Christian Paradis, to change the way spectrum is auctioned. Rural Internet Service Providers are deeply concerned about the lack of spectrum for rural areas to build out broadband services and to expand the capacity of existing broadband services for rural Canadians.  Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa technology veteran Jim Short has been named Vice President and General Manager Canada for global Internet security provider Trend Micro. Prior to joining Trend, Short held sales leadership positions at CA Technologies, Telus, Entrust and Exocom. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal’s iMetrik M2M Solutions Inc. is launching an innovative campaign under the theme of “Big Brother” to underline the many opportunities for its Machine-to-Machine total solution as a way to control and monitor any asset “from anywhere-to-anywhere” in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic Arts Inc. has announced the most successful launch in EA SPORTS history as EA SPORTS™ FIFA 12 hit store shelves and online retailers across the globe. Critical accolades have rolled in for the highest rated sports videogame of this console generation, according to meta-critic, and fans around the world have already played more than 200 million minutes of online games of FIFA 12, according to internal data sources. Read the rest of this entry »

In November 2011, [IN]cubes, will open its doors, desks, chairs and expertise.  [IN]cubes is the first private incubator in Canada’s business district, to be focused on the grass-roots, bootstrapped, entrepreneurs who have a great ideas. INcubes is a makeshift, social, and flexible office, holding companies in private offices and a co-working space in the midst with individual desks, at King and Bathurst Street. INcubes provides space, funding, business development services, and guidance to select extraordinary companies focused on digital technology and innovation.   Read the rest of this entry »

I told first told you about Troll Blaster early in September, but somehow missed the game’s release. I’m making up for that now with an (only a little late) notice that Montreal-based mobile software firm eMobiSoft Inc. has launched their physics strategy – puzzle game Troll Blaster for Apple iOS devices. The game enters the popular projectile destruction genre of gameplay in which the player fires a strategically selected weapon onto a structure containing evil trolls. Players progress by killing all trolls. Read the rest of this entry »