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Rural broadband service provider Xplornet Communications Inc. has co-signed an open letter that calls on the Minister of Industry, Christian Paradis, to change the way spectrum is auctioned. Rural Internet Service Providers are deeply concerned about the lack of spectrum for rural areas to build out broadband services and to expand the capacity of existing broadband services for rural Canadians.  Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa technology veteran Jim Short has been named Vice President and General Manager Canada for global Internet security provider Trend Micro. Prior to joining Trend, Short held sales leadership positions at CA Technologies, Telus, Entrust and Exocom. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal’s iMetrik M2M Solutions Inc. is launching an innovative campaign under the theme of “Big Brother” to underline the many opportunities for its Machine-to-Machine total solution as a way to control and monitor any asset “from anywhere-to-anywhere” in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »