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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 »

Camouflage Software Inc., a provider of data masking solutions headquartered in St. John’s, has announced the latest version of the company’s flagship software product, Camouflage 4.2. The Camouflage Data Masking Solution is designed to protect sensitive information, enabling organizations to discover, classify, subset and protect personal information within non-production environments. Camouflage 4.2 contains numerous functionality enhancements to the core Data Masking Module.
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Cisco and EllisDon have announced completion of PwC Tower’s technology infrastructure, based on Cisco® Smart+Connected Real Estate solutions. Located at 18 York Street, in Toronto’s Southcore Financial Centre, PwC Tower is one of Canada’s most advanced commercial developments. Read the rest of this entry »

Local developer Tim Lewinson has been able to go public about the project he has been working on for Beefy Media. We can now consider ourselves forewarned that the Sour Patch Candy Kids will be coming to consoles in the way of a game called World Gone Sour. There are not many details available as of yet, other than a Facebook page that promises “more details soon.”  To announce their new title, Sour Patch Kids teamed up with popular rapster Method Man for a fun music video: Read the rest of this entry »

National  Public Relations has entered into a partnership with Sylvain Perron and Richard Zeidel, two of Canada’s most highly experienced and renowned digital business leaders. Their mission is to accelerate the expansion and growth of Sonic Boom Creative Media, National’s digital arm which specializes in providing creative, strategic and technical digital services to clients. Based in Montreal but spending significant time in Toronto and other markets, Sylvain and Richard will lead the Firm’s effort to become the leading player in major Canadian markets and internationally. Read the rest of this entry »

Each year, an independent international jury, consisting of nineteen members, judges the entries in nine different categories, submitted by photojournalists, agencies, newspapers and magazines from all corners of the world. This year’s competition attracted 5,691 photographers from 125 countries. In total 108,059 images were entered in the contest. The exhibition is comprised of 177 photographs and is free and open to the public.

The World Press Photo Exhibition will be on display from October 5 to 26, 2011 in the Allen Lambert Galleria at Brookfield Place in Toronto. This traveling exhibition, unique in its kind, is the result of a worldwide annual contest on press photography and is brought to Toronto with the support of Brookfield Place. 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the exhibition at Brookfield Place.
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Recognizing and rewarding some of Canada’s most successful small businesses, eBay Canada has crowned Myriam Barreiro of Toronto as eBay Canada’s 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year. With projected revenue of nearly $1-million this year, Myriam is dedicated to selling brand name camera and video equipment at discounted prices online. In late 2008 Myriam left her career in banking to focus on her eBay business full-time and hasn’t looked back. This year’s awards program also recognizes an entrepreneur who provides unique and personalized customer service and one who is new to the eBay marketplace. Read the rest of this entry »

End to end data driven communication and supply chain solutions provider Contac Services Inc. is the recipient of the Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC) 2011 CATA Innovation Through Technology Award recently presented at the CAMSC Annual Business Achievement Awards Gala held at Toronto’s Royal York Hotel. This prestigious award is presented to an Aboriginal or Minority-owned business for demonstrating innovation in a technology-based product or service. Contac has invested heavily in recent years to create world-class supply-chain solutions by way of its Web Store Front Procurement Platforms.  These custom branded web sites are being deployed by small, medium and large scale enterprises throughout Canada and soon on a North America and Global basis. Read the rest of this entry »