Village Gamer

One hundred companies are being recognized today as the Best Workplaces in Canada, and many of them belong to the technology industry. They represent great diversity in terms of size, sector, industry, and location. The judging panel? More than 50,000 Canadian employees. Read the rest of this entry »

Geosoft has announced the availability of its 2012 Software Release, including updates to Oasis montaj, Target, Target for ArcGIS and GM-SYS Modelling software, and the new release of  Geosoft VOXI Earth Modelling, a geophysical inversion software service that generates 3D voxel models from airborne or ground gravity and magnetic data. The 2012 release includes major 2D and 3D workflow enhancements and new capabilities that deliver greater efficiency and flexibility for resource explorers and earth scientists exploring the earth’s subsurface. Read the rest of this entry »

With tax season in full swing, many professional service providers are utilising various digital tools that cost effectively deliver their message to their clients and prospects. One such tool, Uberflip, provides a cloud-based digital publishing solution that can convert PDFs – such as whitepapers, analyst reports, financial statements, and marketing materials – and turn them into documents that are interactive, accessible, and trackable. Read the rest of this entry »

Kobo Inc. has announced plans to open new Kobo branded shops within 100 WHSmith High Street retail locations in 2012. This decision follows the successful trial of the ‘Kobo Centre’ in some of WHSmith’s larger stores. Across the United Kingdom, WHSmith stores will provide consumers with a signature Kobo experience that features the full range of Kobo eReading devices, including the award- winning Kobo Touch™ eReader and the family friendly Kobo Vox™ eReading tablet. Read the rest of this entry »

Klipfolio Inc. has announced the release of version 1.4 for its mobile BI dashboard. Key to this update is annotations, a feature that lets users attach notes and insights to any Klip on their dashboard. When an annotation is added to a Klip, other users will be notified by a yellow indicator icon that appears in the corner of the Klip. The annotations feature is designed to encourage users to contribute their insights to key performance indicators (KPIs) for everyone to use. Read the rest of this entry »

Flowfinity Wireless Inc., a proven provider of enterprise mobile apps for business process automation, has announced a solution for streamlining business workflows and approvals for access on smartphones and iPads, allowing companies to mobilize business approval processes such as pricing requests, special offers, timesheets, purchase orders and expenses, by replacing spreadsheets and ad-hoc emails with a streamlined system accessible from anywhere. Read the rest of this entry »

Author, director and actor William B. Davis will be reading excerpts from his new memoir Where There’s Smoke…Memoirs of a Cigarette Smoking Man and having a Q & A session at Nightwatch Video in Vancouver this Friday evening. Copies of his books will be available for purchase, as well as personally autographed photographs. Light refreshments will be served. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve bought a new cell phone recently, then you know saying goodbye to your old one is often hard to do. After all, it has given you years of service and helped to create lasting memories of connecting with friends and family. This Sunday’s Earth Day 2012 is the perfect opportunity for Canadians to give their old cell phones the send-off they deserve and ensure they don’t end up in Canada’s landfills. Read the rest of this entry »

Email2 SCP Solutions, a Vancouver-based developer of user-friendly SaaS email encryption and secure file transfers, announces the release of the Mac® Desktop Agent for Apple computers and notebooks. This agent enables Mac users of Microsoft® Outlook and cloud-based email services including Yahoo! Mail and Gmail to benefit from the Email2’s encryption technology. Read the rest of this entry »

Global Television has announced that its perennial fan favourite, Rookie Blue will return for a third season, in simulcast with ABC on Thursday, May 24^th – 10pm ET/PT. The rookies may appear to be better on the job, but there’ll be plenty of “bumps in the road” this season to make their lives difficult and the plots interesting. Read the rest of this entry »