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Small and medium-sized businesses across Canada can now find and better target prospective customers with an easy-to-use online tool offered by Canada Post. Precision Targeter allows businesses to zero in on their target customers at the neighbourhood level based on demographic information such as household income, education, age and marital status. Read the rest of this entry »

IAB Canada has released its new Mobile In Canada: A Summary Of Current Facts + Trends Report (PDF) to add to the Canadian information presented within the IAB US Global Mobile Anthology (PDF). The IAB US Global Mobile Anthology Report presents highlights of research from 17 countries worldwide, and shows among other insights: Read the rest of this entry »

DHX Media has announced that its Wildbrain Entertainment subsidiary has selected Jazwares^™,a leader in the licensed products marketplace, to expand the Yo Gabba Gabba! toy line.  Jazwares, which joins a robust consumer products program that boasts over 40 licensees in the U.S., is the brand’s master toy license and will manufacture, market and distribute a line of preschool toys based on the award-winning television series. Yo Gabba Gabba!, created by Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz, is produced by The Magic Store and W!LDBRAIN Entertainment and airs multiple times a day, seven days a week on Nick Jr. Read the rest of this entry »

VoIP and NAT-traversal software developer Eyeball Networks has announced the re-release of its AnyFirewall Developers Community site to provide VoIP application developers, service providers and device makers additional tools and resources to tackle one of the biggest barriers to mass adoption of VoIP. Read the rest of this entry »

Youth Science Canada (YSC) has announced a three-year joint sponsorship by Research In Motion (RIM), who has signed on as the lead sponsor for the Canada-Wide Science Fair. As YSC’s flagship program, the Canada-Wide Science Fair recognizes Canada’s top 500 science students and their projects. Read the rest of this entry »

The Governments of Canada and Ontario, with IBM and a consortium of seven universities led by the University of Toronto and Western University today announced they are collaborating to establish a new Ontario-based $210 million dollar research and development initiative that will create 145 new highly skilled jobs in Ontario and a new economic cornerstone for the country. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian tech startup companies now have a new avenue to commercialize innovations, scale their businesses faster and achieve market success with the introduction of Communitech’s HYPERDRIVE program that will provide capital of up to $700,000 for high-potential companies – with a  $30 million program to draw on. Backed by key investment firms and angel funders, service providers, strategic partners and mentors, Communitech plans to put innovation into HYPERDRIVE. Read the rest of this entry »

TELUS has announced the official opening of the company’s first Next Generation store. Located in the Carrefour Laval, in the city of Laval, Québec, the completely remodeled TELUS Store is designed with one clear mission – to bring the TELUS suite of products to life in-store and to better inform, empower and assist customers in choosing the technology that best meets their communications needs. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal developer SixDead Entertainment has released its latest game title. Brain Lab is a puzzle game designed to help players improve short-term memory, logic, calculation and visual skills. This free game is available now on Google Play and iTunes, and allows players to share their progress and scores with friends on Facebook and Twitter as well as compete against them for brain power supremacy.
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The game development community knows him as McFunkyPants, but on the cover of his newly published book, he’s Christer Kaitila, B.Sc., from Victoria BC. As many of you know, Christer is one of the administrators for the very popular game jam group Ludum Dare, which, by the way, has a game jam event coming up on April 20th – 23rd. But, I digress – back to his new book, The Game Jam Survival Guide from Packt Publishing, available now for purchase. Read the rest of this entry »