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Companies across Canada who hire young people are being asked to try a free online employee training resource, and share their feedback about its effectiveness. In 2010, The Centre for Skills Development & Training in Ontario launched “Summer in Smallywood,” the online game-based training tool developed by Untold Entertainment that helps young employees enhance their workplace skills. Read the rest of this entry »

Much has been said about Canada’s progressive business environment removing the glass ceiling for women in the workplace. But are our corner offices any more accessible for women today than they have been in the past? According to the findings of the recent Women in Leadership survey of 500 female managers and executives, conducted by Ipsos-Reid on behalf of Randstad Canada in late June, there are still many obstacles that women need to overcome in the workplace when striving to reach the managerial and executive ranks. Read the rest of this entry »

Sandvine, a Waterloo-based provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, today announced that it has received over $5 million in Network Policy Control expansion orders for a tier-1 customer in its Asia Pacific sales region. During its third quarter, Sandvine won seven new service provider customers, including two from the Asia Pacific sales region. Read the rest of this entry »

Intuit wants to know who will create the next great personal or small business finance application and what will they invent? The company is offering developers the opportunity to use one of its key ingredients to innovate and perhaps create the next Quicken, QuickBooks or Mint.com. For the first time in its history, Intuit is opening the application programming interfaces to its financial data service in the U.S. and Canada by giving third-party developers access to one of the key ingredients that has made Quicken, QuickBooks, Mint.com and FinanceWorks some of the world’s most successful financial management programs. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile game developer XMG Studio Inc., Electric Playground and The Globe and Mail have teamed up to challenge all Canadian students to compete in the largest ‘hackathon’ in Canadian developer history – the Great Canadian Appathon is a race against the clock to create the next hit mobile game in under 48 hours. Over the weekend of September 28^th students will gather at more than 40 participating university and college ‘HUBS’ across Canada. The teams will work around the clock and compete for a $25,000 first place prize, $5,000 second place prize, as well as 10 category winners who will receive a special edition Xbox Halo 4 Edition, generously provided by Microsoft. Read the rest of this entry »

I first told you about the upcoming Survival Horror point and click adventure turn-based RPG game Night Whisper Lane last week. This iOS title, currently in development at EPX Games in Toronto, has a brand new trailer to go along with more details on its Rocket Hub and IndieGoGo campaigns. Read the rest of this entry »

Hothead Games has launched a huge content update to Zombie Ace, allowing iOS and Google Play users to deliver event more undead passengers and infection to all the cities in the game.  Also new to the title, Zombie Ace’s players now have also have  the ability to connect and compete with their friends around the world using GREE’s mobile social platform.  The new update is available to download from the iTunes and Google Play App Stores today. Read the rest of this entry »

EA SPORTS^TM NHL^®13 is now available at retail stores throughout North America. NHL 13 is available on the PlayStation^®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360^® video game and entertainment system. Headlined by all-new True Performance Skating and EA SPORTS Hockey I.Q., NHL 13 offers an innovative new gameplay experience that definitively captures the speed, creativity and strategy of NHL^® hockey. NHL 13 also delivers brand new experiences that connect hockey fans to their friends and the real world of hockey with the all-new GM Connected and NHL Moments Live modes. Read the rest of this entry »