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This February Astral’s The Movie Network is offering audiences the chance to sample its most popular and acclaimed series for free via the engaging, state-of-the-art On Demand and Online platforms of television providers Rogers, Videotron, Cogeco and EastLink. The offer is available from Saturday, February 11 to Sunday, February 26 to customers with access to the free On Demand services of participating cable providers, and includes an unrivalled line-up of series, including the hottest US cable hits and homegrown titles. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft^® has released new downloadable content for Just Dance^® 3, the world’s #1 dance game brand. The tracks can be downloaded through the in-game Just Dance store for the Nintendo Wii for 250 Wii Points, or on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 for 240 Microsoft Points. Read the rest of this entry »

The payment landscape in Canada is rapidly evolving and stakeholders are facing a number of challenges, including engagement of merchants and consumers and determining the appropriate business model, not to mention mitigating privacy and security risks. The Canadian Institute will be hosting a forum in Toronto this April to address these important issues. Read the rest of this entry »

Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) has announced that The Accessible Channel-TACtv will be rebranded as AMI-tv. In 2010 the non-profit AMI changed its name from the National Broadcast Reading Service to Accessible Media Inc., reflecting the addition of The Accessible Channel broadcast license to the VoicePrint reading service. Since then AMI has consolidated its corporate, TV and VoicePrint websites into one, AMI.ca. Read the rest of this entry »

Visa Canada and Imperial Parking Canada Corporation (Impark) have announced they are partnering to bring Visa payWave contactless payments to 72 of its attended parking facilities across Canada. As of January 2012, drivers at participating parking lots will be able to simply “wave and go”, when purchasing parking at a payWave enabled Impark parking lot. Read the rest of this entry »

DHX Media Ltd. has resumed its automatic share purchase plan which it had previously suspended in order to facilitate repurchases of its common shares during company imposed black-out periods under its previously announced Normal Course Issuer Bid. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian IT solutions integrator Scalar Decisions has announced the launch of their RenderCloud project, which will see a number of British Columbia digital media studios move to a high-performance cloud computing model to render their digital productions, availing of Scalar’s centralized IT facilities at the Centre for Digital Media on the Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver. Read the rest of this entry »

Rogers has announced that its Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network is now available in more cities surrounding Montréal, including; Laval, Terrebonne, Brossard, Longueuil and Vaudreuil with plans to expand to more than 25 additional cities this year. This will bring LTE to more than half the Canadian population by the end of the year. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenText announced that it has continued to extend its leadership as a global information governance solution provider by becoming the first major ECM vendor to achieve VERS certification for its records management solution with Microsoft SharePoint 2010.  With this accomplishment, OpenText further establishes itself as the premier partner for information governance solutions that extend and enhance SharePoint 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

VantageWire has announced the opening of its new office in Toronto, Canada’s largest financial district. Through establishing a contact point in Toronto, home of the Toronto Stock Exchange, VantageWire will be able to better service clients based in Ontario and Eastern Canada. Read the rest of this entry »