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Big Blue Bubble Inc. is excited to bring two new games to the App Store today. Both Dark Incursion and Hamster Cannon are universal apps designed to run on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad mobile devices running iOS 3.0 or later. Hamster Cannon is priced at $0.99 USD while Dark Incursion is priced at $1.99 USD. Read the rest of this entry »

TVO has launched five new educational apps for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet from TVOKids. Offering parents a safe, educational alternative in gaming, TVO’s apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook support a wide range of learning objectives from the Ontario school curriculum including: math, science, reading and writing. All TVOKids content is developed using TVO’s Educational Blueprint, a rigorous process which ensures a quality educational experience, and is tested in classrooms with teachers, students and TVO’s on-staff educational expert. Read the rest of this entry »

The Taylor Family Digital Library (TFDL), a model intellectual and cultural centre for the 21st Century, is now open to the public. Located at the heart of the University of Calgary and designed by Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning Ltd., this new six-storey 24,000 m² facility is a unique convergence of libraries, historical archives, arts museum, scholarly publishing and student academic support services. Read the rest of this entry »

The newly released 2012 Salary Guides from Robert Half International show Canadian starting salaries will increase an average of 3.2 per cent next year. Technology positions are projected to see the largest gains among all fields researched, with an anticipated 4.4 per cent increase in base compensation. Accounting and finance professionals can expect starting salaries to rise an average of 2.5 per cent, according to the research. Read the rest of this entry »

Results from the annual Best Employers in Canada study, conducted by global human resources consulting and outsourcing solutions business Aon Hewitt, identifies those organizations with the highest employee engagement. At the same time, the data provides insight into the types of workers that are least engaged and thus more likely to leave to join competitors and other organizations. The list of 2012’s 50 Best Employers appears in the October 31 issue of Maclean’s magazine, available on newsstands today, and the November 3 edition of La Presse. Read the rest of this entry »

Changes to the way that Canadians make and accept payments for goods and services holds many positive and worrisome implications for the country’s small- and medium-sized businesses, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB). Top among the concerns to entrepreneurs is the future of cheque writing in Canada as there is a very real possibility that a federal review may recommend the phasing out of paper cheques in the near future. Read the rest of this entry »

Media Awareness Network (MNet) has launched Privacy Pirates, a new interactive resource to teach children about online privacy and how to distinguish between public and private information when playing on the Internet. The game was unveiled today by MNet’s Director of Education Matthew Johnson at the Prince Edward Island Teachers’ Federation Conference in Charlottetown. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian children are invited to get in the holiday spirit by showcasing their artistic talents to help children worldwide by entering the Pier 1 Imports /Owlkids/UNICEF Greeting Card Contest. Children ages 14 and under can draw, paint or colour a picture illustrating this year’s “Peace on Earth” theme to win exciting prizes and have their design featured as UNICEF’s official 2012 greeting card. Read the rest of this entry »

The Montréal Science Centre invites you to travel back more than 65 million years and discover dinosaurs like you’ve never seen them before! Come and see the world’s largest and most life-like animatronic (robotic) creatures, including feathered dinosaurs, full-size skeletons and numerous fossils. Dinosaurs Unearthed, which also features significant recent scientific discoveries, is sure to fascinate young and old alike.

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Eidos-Montreal used some of the latest game development technology from Autodesk, Inc.  to develop the critically acclaimed “Deus Ex: Human Revolution” video game. Autodesk Scaleform middleware helped the developer build immersive user interfaces (UIs) — from interactive world objects and the hero’s Augmented Reality bio-engineered enhancement, to basic menus and heads-up displays (HUDs). Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk MotionBuilder software were used to create and populate the game’s large futuristic world. Read the rest of this entry »