Cackleberries Entertainment Inc. has announced the opening of a new educational character house in their online, virtual world of Oville. The new house—aptly named the “Water House”—is inhabited by three aquatic Cackleberries: Sushee a Tyee salmon, Snoggler a catfish and Shylee a coy. The purpose of the three-room house is to introduce young children aged three to seven about the basic science of water. Read the rest of this entry »
EXFO Inc. and US-based RAD Data Communications have announced the availability of their new integrated solution for end-to-end monitoring of data networks. This solution will lower operators’ capital expenses (CAPEX) by reducing network implementation time dramatically – from months to weeks or even days. As well, the joint solution slashes operational expenses by enabling faster and more detailed fault diagnoses and reduced mean-time-to-repair (MTTR). Read the rest of this entry »
Etechgigs is an online marketplace for people to exchange their skills at an affordable rate. Etechgigs is based in Vancouver owned and operated by IT professionals who have identified a great need for online gigs. The website has been revamped (although it doesn’t appear to yet be complete) to allow skilled IT professionals to offer cheap and affordable gigs from talented people around the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Funcom has announced that the company has made a small adjustment to the release date for The Secret World. Due to market reasons, the ship date has been moved by two weeks to July 3rd, with Early Access starting June 29th. The new launch date places The Secret World in a more positive launch window which will benefit the launch of the game. Read the rest of this entry »
Subtle Technologies and Ryerson University co-host the 15th annual Subtle Technologies Festival, which began yesterday and runs until May 27th as international artists, innovators and scientists gather to explore ideas, experiments and cross-discipline collaborations from the worlds of art, technology & science. Read the rest of this entry »
Det Norske Teatret, a high-profile performing arts venue in Norway, has successfully deployed AudienceView as its ticketing and customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Located in the center of Oslo, the critically acclaimed theater presents a diverse annual program of in-house and outside productions in three multidisciplinary auditoriums. Seating configurations vary to accommodate audiences from 120 to 1,050.
Leading creator, producer and distributor Shaftesbury has announced a renewed sponsorship commitment to the Toronto District School Board’s Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA). As part of its ongoing support of the school, Shaftesbury will donate $30,000 over the next three years to the ESA Film program. Shaftesbury has also announced winners in the inaugural Shaftesbury Student Filmmaker Awards, in order to recognize achievement at each grade level of the ESA Film program. The awards were announced at ESA on Thursday, May 17 by The Listener’s Ennis Esmer (Season 3 premieres May 30 on CTV). Read the rest of this entry »
ScribbleLive is pleased to announce the release of the ScribbleLive Advanced Content Module (ACM). ACM is the first product emerging from collaboration between ScribbleLive and The Associated Press (AP) to create better tools for real-time journalism. Read the rest of this entry »
The dissemination of time-sensitive information is critical when a child is believed to have been abducted. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) as the Provincial Coordinator of the Ontario AMBER Alert Program is pleased to announce a new partnership with The Missing Children’s Society of Canada (MCSC) today, International Missing Children’s Day. Read the rest of this entry »
Independent online games developer Funcom has announced that it is working closely with NVIDIA for Funcom’s upcoming modern-day massively multiplayer online game ‘The Secret World’. Funcom’s and NVIDIA’s engineering teams have been working together to make ‘The Secret World’ the most graphically advanced massively multiplayer online game ever to launch on the PC platform. Read the rest of this entry »