LightSpeed, a Montreal and Ottawa-based software company that helps retailers reinvent in-store shopping, has launched a new retail technology that will enable interactive cross-selling in retail stores. Its new LightSpeed for iPad product is uniquely designed to arm retailers with tools to cross-sell more products and close more sales, while forging a stronger connection with their customers who can preview all related product information in one place. Read the rest of this entry »
Corus Entertainment’s OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (Canada) announced today that after searching communities across the country, Bowmanville, Ontario has been chosen as the next Million Dollar Neighbourhood. Financial expert and winner of The Ultimate W Expert Challenge, Preet Banerjee will host the 10×60 series, along with returning co-host Dr. Joti Samra. The series follows 100 families in one community as they attempt to raise their collective net worth by $1 million in only 10 weeks. Produced by Force Four Entertainment Inc. in association with OWN (Canada), Season 2 is scheduled to launch January 2013. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s the wind-up, and the pitch! Hothead Games steps up to the plate and hits a homerun! Feel the excitement of going for the Big Win in Big Win Baseball, the newest game from the Big Win Sports series, available today on the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Read the rest of this entry »
Score Media Inc. has announced the launch of French, German and Portuguese editions of its dedicated soccer app, ScoreMobile FC for BlackBerry. The free app from the makers of ScoreMobile® already offers detailed soccer coverage for English and Spanish-speaking fans. And this latest expansion ensures even more fans globally will be able to stay up-to-date with the very latest soccer news, results and statistics. Read the rest of this entry »
Vancouver-based Intelimax Media Inc. has successfully launched its new Fantasy Sports platform on DraftTeam.com. The DraftTeam.com.website offers daily and weekly fantasy sports games for the four major sports in North America, which includes NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB. Read the rest of this entry »
EXFO Inc. has released Ethernet One, a centralized Ethernet service activation and monitoring solution that enables network operators to deploy cost-effectively, accelerate time to revenue and boost operational efficiency, while optimizing the customer experience. Ethernet One tests and monitors all network architectures, from the core to the last mile, and covers all stages of the service lifecycle, from construction and turn-up to monitoring and troubleshooting. Read the rest of this entry »
Secure digital media distribution company YANGAROO Inc. has announced that Anthony Miller, a director of YANGAROO since September 2010, has agreed to serve as the company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors as of June 26, 2012. Clifford Hunt, who has served as Chairman until the present date, will continue to serve as a director, will take on the role of Vice Chairman, and will continue in his position as Chief Operating Officer. Read the rest of this entry »
Who doesn’t love pizza? Orby certainly does. With that in mind, up-and-coming Ottawa game designer Yves Tourigny developed Top This!, a strategic pizza-making board game that’s currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter in order to finance the game’s first print run. Read the rest of this entry »