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Toronto – Red Wolf Online proudly announces its Beta launch of MeetingMade™, a web-based calendaring tool that automates and simplifies the scheduling of meetings and events by removing the tedious ‘back & forth’ over the phone or email.

With MeetingMade, you and your meeting participants share your availability without disclosing or compromising personal schedules in an easy-to-use interface. MeetingMade then calculates the best meeting time for everyone.

“I was inspired to create MeetingMade shortly after I moved to Toronto from Vancouver about 12 years ago, “ said David Tessler, President of Red Wolf Online. “Most of my childhood friends are busy professionals who now live here and we found it really difficult to get together. Our joke was that the amount of time it took to schedule a ‘get-together’ was more than the time we spent together.”
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Hosting companies can now integrate, manage, and sell BlackBerry Internet services along with Exchange Hosting services from one control panel

Vancouver – DotNetPanel, a leading Windows hosting control panel developer, announced today its new BlackBerry Enterprise module, designed exclusively for companies wanting to increase sales and revenue by offering BlackBerry services. The new BlackBerry Enterprise module integrates seamlessly with existing Exchange Hosting services, all within one control panel.

“Our Exchange Hosting module has been a tremendous success so now we can leverage the ability to offer BlackBerry Internet services as an end-to-end product for our customers to resell to their end-users,” said Feodor Fitsner, Director of DotNetPanel. “In addition to our latest Hyper-V virtualization module, hosting providers and SaaS companies have several choices available to increase their market share and stay competitive in the hosting industry.”

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Toronto – Viigo Inc., developer of the popular mobile content and services platform for smartphones, announced today that its award-winning application is the first third party application to be included in the BlackBerry Application Center for Vodafone.

Viigo is a free application that delivers a rich array of news, weather, sports, market data, personalised stock portfolios, shopping, social networks, movie listings, flight schedules, flight status and more, all customised by the user to suit their needs and delivered to them with unrivalled speed and simplicity.

Viigo, which is immediately available to all Vodafone Australia BlackBerry Storm customers, can be downloaded easily from the Application Center (which is found on the BlackBerry home screen), or by visiting http://www.viigo.com/en-au/vodafone

“People often call Viigo the most highly used application on their BlackBerry after email.” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “We’re excited by this initiative, and look forward to helping Vodafone deliver a truly differentiated BlackBerry smartphone experience, right out of the box.”

Live from Intel’s Booth at Mobile World Congress, LiveCast Brings International Scenes to WiMAX Video Wall

Vancouver/Barcelona – Live video from mobile devices pioneer, LiveCast®, today announced support for the world’s first WiMAX phone, in partnership with Yota, the Russian operator developing and providing mobile services based on 4G Mobile WiMAX broadband technology.

LiveCast helps illustrate the power and speed of WiMAX for operators as well as end-users – currently supporting a variety of WiMAX enabled netbooks, PCs and mobile internet devices (MIDs). LiveCast has enabled hardware-level DSP assisted video encoding for the HTC MAX 4G mobile phone, furthering the company’s already extensive range of in-market supported WiMAX devices. LiveCast also takes full advantage of mobile devices’ built-in GPS capability by integrating location data for real-time tracking on a map, including automated notifications and social network sharing for Yota Network customers.

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Vancouver – Seven Group Inc., the leader in digital media technology, is very pleased to announce a strategic partnership with 3vis to serve the digital media market.

Since its creation in 2002, Montreal-based 3vis has specialized in 3D software sales for the video game, film, television and architecture industries. Included in the wide range of Autodesk products it carries, 3vis offers 3dsMax, Maya, Toxik, Autocad, Revit and the recently added XSI Softimage solutions as well as other 3D products such as PFTrack by PixelFarm, boujou by 2d3, Toon Boom and Massive. 3vis is also an Autodesk Premier Solutions Provider (PSP), the top tier of the Autodesk reseller channels, and provides specialized solutions and adapted services including software implementation and installation, technical support and pipeline consulting for its clients. 3vis is now the largest M&E Autodesk reseller in Canada and the only reseller with a Canada-wide coverage model, with sales outlets in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, enabling them to provide top advice and products to digital media companies in animation, gaming, special effects, design and art.

This partnership rounds out a complete solution set offering for Seven Group’s valued clients, and is looking forward to bringing this combination of industry and product knowledge, technological know-how and experience to their market.

Joint Solution Facilitates Synchronization of Applications Across Geographically Distributed Computing Clusters

Ottawa – Solace Systems, the leader in hardware-based messaging middleware infrastructure and GigaSpaces Technologies, a leading provider of a new generation of application platforms for Java and .Net environments, announced today a joint “space bridging” solution that can coordinate interactions between applications across multiple clustered computing environments. Benefits include the ability to move data faster, superior application performance and better business continuity during disaster recovery scenarios. The solution’s value is highest in industries where information is exceptionally time-sensitive, because database-centric solutions simply can’t handle the requisite rate of data transfers over wide area networks (WANs). Examples include financial services, telecommunications, cloud computing, logistics, government and online gaming.

Solace’s innovative hardware-based middleware augments GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform’s (XAP) native functionality with the ability to share information and resources between multiple XAP clusters across the WAN in real-time. This is generally called space bridging, and it lets enterprises and cloud computing providers deploy XAP clusters anywhere in the world with the confidence that the right information and resources will always be available to the right application at the right time.

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Microsoft invites IT professionals and software developers to prove their mettle

Ottawa – In an interactive game promoting the benefits of Microsoft certification, the software company asks IT and development professionals to prove their know-how in a series of tech knowledge challenges.

Created by Canadian interactive marketing and branded entertainment developer Fuel Industries, Are You Certifiable? is a Silverlight-based quiz game which will dig deep into the mental resources of technicians and developers alike in the process of determining who can meet and who can fly beyond the rigorous standards of Microsoft Certification. The game is a unique approach which will not only spread awareness of the benefits of MS Certification and the Second Shot promotion, but also provide a valuable primer for professionals interested in taking an exam.

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Toronto – Despite the global economic downturn, new technology and consumer media consumption trends have created a host of employment opportunities in Canada’s publishing industry.

As the Canadian magazine sector rushes to adapt to an online audience, the shift is fueling a need for technology-savvy professionals who can help take the publishing sector into a brave new world, says professor Denise Schon of The Centre for Creative Communications, Centennial College.

“Traditional magazines are quickly evolving into a multi-platform medium including not only print, but online with the advent of web 2.0 technologies and live video streaming,” Schon says. “As such, we are seeing our grads working in a much wider variety of jobs across the magazine industry. Our program prepares students for that new world.”

The Centre for Creative Communications, Centennial College, has been offering its unique Book and Magazine Publishing program, known as a cornerstone of the industry, for more than 30 years. More recently, it responded to publishers’ needs with intensive, new courses in web 2.0 digital media publishing skills.

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Montreal – Expanding on its existing lockdown delivery service, MXI Security™ today announced it is now allowing customers of its ACCESS Enterprise device life cycle management suite to order portable security devices preconfigured with a unique management code. This guarantees that devices that leave the factory cannot be used or modified by anyone except the end customer.

This expanded service complements an already rigorous production process that ensures devices are free of malicious software and sealed in tamper-evident packaging before they leave MXI Security’s US-based manufacturing facility.

The management code capability has been an in-hardware security feature of every MXI Security MXP portable security device for the past several years. Known only to the issuing organization, the code ensures that no attacker can alter the contents of the read-only drive, protecting it against malicious software such as Trojans, worms and viruses. Furthermore, if a device is ever lost or stolen, the code prevents anyone from recycling the device to reuse as their own.

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Ottawa – Corel Corporation today announced Corel® InstantON™ technology is now included in the award-winning Sony® VAIO® P series Lifestyle PC.

With Corel InstantON technology, VAIO P series Lifestyle PC users can surf the web, check email, chat online and play back photos, videos and music in seconds after turning on their notebook, saving the time of booting up their Windows operating system.

“We are pleased to work with Sony to provide a superior instant-on solution for their VAIO P series Lifestyle PC,” said Jeff Hastings, President and General Manager, Digital Media at Corel. “Users will find an all-new, custom-designed interface that provides a complete, efficient and secure way to quickly access online content at home or on the go.”

“As the world’s lightest 8 inch notebook at 1.4 pounds, the VAIO P series Lifestyle PC deserves a superior instant-on solution to meet the needs of today’s mobile computer user,” said Bob Ishida, Senior Vice President, Corporate Executive, President of VAIO Business Group, Sony Corporation. “By adopting Corel InstantON technology, users will enjoy a stress-free and exciting user experience through an easy-to-use interface that accesses the internet faster than ever before.”

Currently only available in Japan, the VAIO P series will be available in North America this month and can be pre-ordered on the SonyStyle website for $999.99.