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Whirlscape Inc., creators of Minuum, “the little keyboard for big fingers,” today released the Android beta to the nearly 10,000 supporters who funded the keyboard’s wildly successful Indiegogo campaign. The Minuum Project campaign raised over $87,000 (USD) through the crowdfunding platform between March and April 2013, well past its initial goal of $10,000. Whirlscape promised to release the hotly anticipated Minuum beta two months after the campaign, and has delivered on that promise. Read the rest of this entry »

Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, participated in today’s launch of the Government of Canada’s much-anticipated next-generation Open Data Portal, which will provide unprecedented access to government data and information. Immigration data is already the most sought information on the Open Data Portal. In fact, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has the six most downloaded datasets on the Portal. These datasets include information about Canada’s immigrants’ countries of origin, preferred immigration programs, settlement patterns as well as application inventories and processing times. Read the rest of this entry »

Recreationalists and resource professionals looking for an easier way to explore B.C.’s wilderness can now leave their fold-out maps at home. GeoBC has created a series of free, high-resolution topographical maps specifically designed for viewing on mobile devices. GeoBC’s popular Terrain Resource Information Management (TRIM) base map series has been redesigned to enable the GPS georeferencing functionality associated with mobile devices and allow users to zoom into small areas of the new maps without compromising detail. Over 7,000 free maps covering the entire province of British Columbia (at a scale of 1:20,000) are now available as downloadable PDF files through GeoBC’s Base Map Online Store or through its popular KML viewer (with TIFF versions coming soon). Read the rest of this entry »

California connected health & fitness developer Fitbit has announced the national Canadian launch of its best-selling products. For the first time, Fitbit’s wearable health devices, including the popular Fitbit One clip, the newly released Fitbit Flex wristband and its wireless scale will be available at Best Buy Canada, Future Shop and London Drugs stores across the country and online with other major retailers, including Sport Chek joining later this summer. This launch brings the full line of Fitbit products to the Canadian retail market, giving consumers the chance to try out the full Fitbit product line and the new Fitbit Flex Activity + Sleep Wristband—the first and only wristband activity tracker available with Bluetooth 4.0 for real-time syncing, making it the perfect way to fit fitness into a busy, on-the-go lifestyle. Read the rest of this entry »

Wiggles3D has announced the release of Smile Tiles, a new type of matching puzzle game. Smile Tiles is not about matching colours like other matching puzzle games. You make smiles by moving and rotating monsters to match up eyes with mouths in a variety of different patterns. The game features ten different monsters, each with a unique personality. Boomy was never built quite right, Dizzy is totally out of control, and Wheezy has never been able to get over his cough. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced $1.9 million in funding to ten projects that applied to the Convergent Stream’s Diverse Languages Program. Projects include television productions with digital media components, six in Mandarin, two in Spanish, and one each in Italian and Persian. Of the ten projects, five are documentaries, three are dramas, one is Children’s & Youth, and one is Variety and Performing Arts. Seven projects originated from Ontario, two are from British Columbia and one is from Québec. Read the rest of this entry »

Univa Data Centre Automation Company and home of Grid Engine has announced the release of License Orchestrator to provide license management through Univa Grid Engine, the most widely deployed, distributed resource management software platform today. Reducing the operating costs of IT departments, Univa’s latest solution adds essential planning tools, such as reports on license usage, to maximize a company’s budget spent on software licenses. Built by the creators of Grid Engine, with License Orchestrator you can expect the same robust, enterprise-grade and scalable product as all Univa solutions. Read the rest of this entry »