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Top online wine retailer Wine.com, which is based in California, has selected Vancouver’s Strangeloop Networks to accelerate its website, delivering a faster user experience for its visitors. With more than a million registered users and an inventory of 13,000+ products, Wine.com has seen huge growth in the past year alone. In 2011, the company shipped more than two million bottles of wine, a 35% increase over the previous year. In addition to offering wine and wine-related gifts and accessories, the website houses a growing online community of more than 32,000 members who provide customer reviews and ratings, as well as creating and sharing personal wine lists. Read the rest of this entry »

Indigo-Chapters has announced the best books of 2011 with lists of top titles in Fiction, Non-Fiction, Teens and Kids books. As selected by Indigo’s book buying team who read hundreds of titles every year, this year’s compilation of must-read books features award winners, debuts, and masterful storytellers from Canada and around the world. With a tale for every kind of bibliophile, the year’s best reading from Canada’s one stop holiday shop offers tremendous gift inspirations for every age and stage. Read the rest of this entry »

AOL Canada commemorates 2011 by revealing their most-searched terms and most shared stories of the year from popular categories including: news, celebs, politics-business, memes, movies and more! Demonstrating its understanding of relevant online conversations, AOL and The Huffington Post Canada unveil the top 10 lists that resonated among Canadians from the spectacle that was the Royal Wedding to the passing of former NDP leader, Jack Layton. Read the rest of this entry »

New for this holiday season, The National Film Board of Canada, famous worldwide for animated film classics like The Sweater, The Cat Came Back and Noël Noël, brings your family a collection of films that are perfect for the holiday season. Each day throughout December, you and your kids will unlock the next surprise movie, enjoying hours of family entertainment wherever you may be. Whether you’re on a long road trip to grandma and grandpa’s house, at home entertaining friends or just relaxing as a family before bedtime, this holiday collection of Oscar®-winners, classics and new releases will be the highlight of any day. Read the rest of this entry »

D-Link Canada has expanded its award-winning line of network switches with the D-Link® DGS-105 and DGS-108 Gigabit Ethernet; and DES-105 and DES-108 Fast Ethernet metal switches. Available in five- and eight-port form factors, these reliable unmanaged switches deliver small and medium-sized businesses with high-speed networking and intelligent data streaming with Quality of Service (QoS) prioritization, and leverages D-Link’s Green Technology saving up to 85 percent on power consumption. Read the rest of this entry »

Large companies will enter into a new era of records management with a new solution introduced today by OpenText™. OpenText Auto-Classification is the first automated classification application with built-in transparency and defensibility, giving organizations a powerful way to manage the retention and disposition of high-volume, low-touch content such as social media, email, office documents and legacy content, to reduce legal risk and eDiscovery costs. Read the rest of this entry »

iStockphoto today announced an aggressive new referral program that rewards participants with their choice of $20, 20 credits or 20 percent commission on all first-time purchases by customers they generate. Newly referred iStockers are also awarded 10 free credits just for setting up an account. Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa’s Epiphan Systems Inc. has announced the release of its Lecture Recorder x2™, a new third generation portable hardware platform for digital video recording, streaming and replaying of multiple audio visual sources, making it ideal for the recording, the broadcast streaming and the replaying of multi-source audio-visual multi-media applications. Read the rest of this entry »

The ongoing efforts of local First Nations to share their cultures with their communities and the world at large has resulted in a venture that will not only enhance that mandate, but also provide a viable business opportunity for local and regional indigenous artists to gain valuable marketing and sales support for their art and their livelihood. Read the rest of this entry »

The Shaw Rocket Fund is pleased to announce that Toronto-based Temple Street Productions has won the $50,000 Shaw Rocket Prize for Wingin’ It, as voted by Canadian children in every province. A staple for Family Channel viewers, the show also airs on Disney XD Canada and is distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »