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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 »

The Quebecor Fund Board of Directors is pleased to announce the names of the seven production companies that will receive 23rd-round funding under its Main Television Production Assistance Program (MPAP), following October 1, 2011 submissions. In this round, Quebecor Fund will disburse a total of $2,709,092 to the following production companies: Read the rest of this entry »

Thirty-four-year-old Tara Kelly, Founder and President of SPLICE Software Incorporated, has become the Western Finalist in the 2011 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award for Start-Up Companies. In less than five years, this Calgary-born mother of two took a revolutionary concept – personalized human voice messaging – and turned it into a million dollar company and international leader in the unified communications field. Read the rest of this entry »

Merging Media Productions Inc. and the Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA) are excited to announce Merging + Media TO. The event is coming to Toronto for the first time and is a unique and stimulating two-day seminar and lab for mid to senior level media executives looking to upgrade their understanding of how transmedia innovation is evolving our businesses. It’s delivered in collaboration with world renowned transmedia expert Anita Ondine from Transmedia Next. Read the rest of this entry »

The perceived risk of cybercrime to Canadian organizations is on the rise according to a new report on economic crime from PwC. The 2011 Global Economic Crime Survey ranks cybercrime as one of the top four economic crimes (23%), slightly behind accounting fraud and bribery and corruption (24%). Asset misappropriation (or theft) is the top crime, reported by 72% of organizations around the world who were victims of economic crime in the past year. Read the rest of this entry »

Rogers Digital Media announced today the launch of RDeals, a new daily deals site that brings local and national finds to Canadians for up to 90 per cent off the original price. Beginning today, RDeals offers national deals across Canada (excluding Quebec), as well as local daily deals to the Greater Toronto Area on quality-branded products and services, including food, fashion, technology, vacations, spa treatments, fitness classes, and more. Read the rest of this entry »

Legacy modernization software and services provider Make Technologies has announced the upcoming beta program for Appshot – a revolutionary Software as a Service offering that provides organizations with the ability to assess and understand application portfolios in a secure cloud environment. Companies that are interested in participating in the beta can apply online beginning today. The functional testing is currently planned to begin in January 2012, with general availability planned for later in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

AlertPay, a Montreal-based secure online payment processing service for e-commerce sites said today that it has launched a real time security monitoring platform named “FraudMatrix”.  The company reports that its new platform is more than just a monitoring system, the technology learns and adapts to patterns which enables it to instantly identify suspicious activity. Read the rest of this entry »