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Secure digital media management company YANGAROO Inc. has announced a multi-year, multi-platform deal to provide The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) with a digital method for determining Emmy® winners beginning with News & Documentary Awards on October 1st of this year followed by others in 2014. Through the company’s YANGAROO Awards digital platform, entries will be submitted, content under consideration will be reviewed, and ultimately, judges will electronically cast their ballots. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment announce the details – and an invitation – to the ultimate battle of superhero supremacy for the upcoming fighting game, Injustice: Gods Among Us. For the next 10 weeks, the roster of legendary DC Comics characters will enter the Injustice Battle Arena. Each week, a new pair of challengers will enter the arena, as fans are given the opportunity to vote on who they believe would come out as champion. Read the rest of this entry »

Fizziology, an American social media research company that analyzes the world of entertainment, advertising, sports and a variety of other industries to forecast real world behavior, has announced the launch of its Canadian research arm. Fizziology is now able to deliver Canadian-based intelligence using a multi-layered language and geo-location approach that captures only Canadian social media conversations. This technique helps studios, networks and brands better determine how to craft their marketing strategies for Canada without the noise of additional markets. Read the rest of this entry »

TVO, Ontario’s public educational media organization, is pleased to partner with BlackBerry to offer six TVOKids educational children’s apps for BlackBerry® 10. TVO’s app offerings for BlackBerry 10 come as part of an extensive relationship with BlackBerry built on a shared commitment to inspire young minds through the power of education, and are available affective today as new devices hit Ontario stores. As the most trusted and most educational media brand for children in Canada (Ipsos Reid, 2011), TVO fosters early learning development by creating award-winning, classroom-tested educational resources, including apps for mobile devices and online games and videos. With content that supports the Ontario Curriculum, TVO provides educational resources across a variety of platforms, with more educational apps than any other Canadian broadcaster. Read the rest of this entry »

The economic impact of Canadian Film Centre and its alumni in Ontario is considerable according to a recent study conducted by Nordicity on the economic impacts of CFC’s graduates in the province. CFC, in partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport (MTCS), engaged Nordicity to measure the economic impact of CFC graduates since 2005-06 – the first year of MTCS support. Study of the Economic Impacts of the Canadian Film Centre represents the first time an economic analysis of CFC graduates has been assessed, and provides a baseline for future studies. Read the rest of this entry »

Hosted annually by 3P Learning, the World Education Games allows students from around the world to compete with each other in an on-line competition.  Last year, 6 million students from over 200 countries and territories participated in the free competition.  3P Learning’s online resources – Mathletics, Spellodrome, and IntoScience – are the engines for the educational challenge that allows students to compete based on their age and skill level. This year, World Literacy Day will be held on March 5^th, followed by World Math on March 6^th and World Science day on March 7^th. Read the rest of this entry »

It was another touchdown for CTV‘s original programming slate on Sunday night as, despite an 11p.m. ET start time, 1.23 million viewers tuned in for the post-Super Bowl premiere of its new original drama series Motive. The debut becomes the #1 Canadian series premiere of the 2012/13 broadcast year. With 4.2 million viewers tuning in to some or all of the new Canadian crime drama, Motive tackled its competition by more than doubling Elementary’s audience head-to-head (548,000; Global), and kicked off its debut season as the most-watched program of the night, next to the Super Bowl. Following a massive promotion and publicity campaign, Motive held steady throughout the delayed broadcast and scored big among both men and women, with a 6.5 rating for M18-34 in Toronto and a 5.2 rating for F18-34 in Vancouver. Read the rest of this entry »

BlackBerry and Unity Technologies have announced that they are working together to create a Unity deployment add-on product for BlackBerry® 10 smartphones, empowering Unity’s over 1.5 million strong developer community to publish their games on these powerful platforms. The deployment tools will also be available for BlackBerry PlayBook™ tablets when they run the BlackBerry 10 OS. BlackBerry 10 will now be one of the premiere mobile platforms supported by the market-leading Unity engine. The deployment tool is currently in development by Unity Technologies and BlackBerry, and will be released as an add-on option for Unity. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite has introduced Socialcast, the company’s latest integration designed for enterprise, but available to all HootSuite users. Found in the HootSuite App Directory, Socialcast is an internal social network for businesses. It unites people, information and applications, with its real-time enterprise “activity stream engine.” More than 30,000 organizations in 190 countries rely on Socialcast to provide secure, instant collaboration and communication across their businesses. Read the rest of this entry »

Point Grey, a BC-based designer and manufacturer of innovative, high-performance digital cameras, has announced the release of the all-new Ladybug®5 camera, the next-generation version of the popular Ladybug series of 360-degree cameras, continuing Point Grey’s long-standing leadership in spherical imaging. The new LD5-U3-51S5C redefines past performance benchmarks, boasting an impressive 30 megapixels (MP) of total resolution covering 90% of a full sphere; a 5Gbit/s USB 3.0 interface; and a ground-breaking post-processing workflow that provides high dynamic range, superb image quality and maximum user flexibility. Read the rest of this entry »