Village Gamer

Toronto – RBC today announced a call for nominations for the 2009 RBC Canadian Entrepreneur Awards program (CWEA). The RBC CWEA program will recognize the many talented Canadian women entrepreneurs who thrive despite today’s challenging economic environment.

“Women entrepreneurs are one of the fastest growing segments of the Canadian economy, and RBC is proud to help celebrate their passion and success at this annual awards ceremony,” said Shauneen Bruder, executive vice-president, Business and Commercial Banking.

The RBC Canadian Woman Entrepreneur Awards are the pre-eminent national business awards recognizing the country’s leading female entrepreneurs. For the first time since the creation of the awards program, applications received will be considered for two consecutive years.

“Whether starting a new business, sustaining the one they already have, or exploring new opportunities, Canadian women entrepreneurs continue to play a leading role in the Canadian marketplace,” explains Mike Michell, national director, Small Business and Women’s Market, RBC. “These women have incredible success stories that we believe other business owners can learn from.”
Read the rest of this entry »

Calgary – Multiplied Media Corporation, a Calgary-based provider of mobile local search services, today announced that Poynt, its award-winning application, has surpassed 400,000 users.

Every day, between ten and 15 percent of Poynt’s user base is active, performing an average of two queries each. The weekly return user number averages 40 percent and over 75 percent of users used Poynt in the month of April, generating over 1.5 million queries. As additional features, such as people and restaurant search, are integrated in the coming months, it is projected that the average number of daily queries will increase by ten percent and repeat usage will be even stronger.

“According to the February 2009 Pinch Media report ‘iPhone AppStore Secrets,’ ten percent of free iPhone application users continue to use the application after one week, only four percent are still using the application after one month and long-term audiences of average iPhone applications generally diminish to one percent of total downloads,” reported Andrew Osis, CEO, Multiplied Media. “With the repeat daily and weekly usage Poynt is experiencing, and the high percentage of Poynt users in April, we are extremely pleased to be well above industry norms in terms of continued
application usage.”
Read the rest of this entry »

Brampton – Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning’s top-priority capital project has received significant funding from the federal and provincial governments. Together both levels of government are providing a combined $31.23 million in new infrastructure dollars toward building a college campus in Mississauga. The creation of Sheridan’s third major campus will mean that Mississauga, Canada’s sixth-largest city, will finally have a college.

“Thanks to the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario, Sheridan is going to be able to fill a big need for students and businesses in Mississauga,” said Dr. Robert Turner, President and CEO, Sheridan Institute. “The Mississauga area is home to over 55 corporate head offices in finance, insurance, real estate, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and logistics. Everyone has told Sheridan a college presence is essential to fulfilling their workforce needs. Thanks to this new funding, we’re going to be able to pay big dividends to the Mississauga community.”
Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal – Vantrix, the leading provider of content adaptation and optimization solutions for converged wireless, broadband and cable networks, today announced Vantrix Media Profiler has been recognized by Network Products Guide — the industry’s leading publication on information technologies and solutions — as a winner of the 2009 Best Products and Services Award. The highly competitive annual award honors products and services that address the rapidly changing needs of technology end-users. Media Profiler rose to the top among nominations from all over the world to take top spot for software in the “Best in Convergence” category.

Vantrix Media Profiler helps drive consumer adoption of premium multimedia services such as mobile and web TV, user generated content and video on demand, while helping operators overcome the challenge of managing multimedia services across multiple screens. Media Profiler is a complete solution for the introduction, provisioning and management of multimedia content/services. It enables operators to manage subscriber services through an intuitive single point of operation, administration, maintenance and provisioning. Media Profiler facilitates a common user experience on any device and any network, promoting the agnostic delivery of content to converged services. This increases service stickiness and adoption while reducing churn, and delivering considerable OPEX and CAPEX savings as more multimedia content is delivered by network operators.
Read the rest of this entry »