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In a gala reception hosted by CTV journalist Seamus O’Regan, the second of three awards’ evenings presented by The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television honoured 46 Canadian Screen Award winners in Drama, Children’s or Youth, Comedy and Variety categories, including the winners of four Academy Special Awards. The first annual Canadian Screen Awards will culminate with a broadcast gala hosted by comedian Martin Short, on Sunday, March 3rd at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. The event will be broadcast at 8 PM (8:30 NT) on CBC Television nationwide. Read the rest of this entry »

CONCRETE is a first-person ‘experience’ from Dark Acre that explores cyberethics through the senses of a cyborg released as part of Breakdance Mcfunkypant’s One Game A Month initiative. Made over the course of the 4 weeks of February, 2013, ‘CONCRETE’ is an experimental game built in Unity 3D for play via web browsers. The player takes on the role of a cyborg tasked with assassination, and given a chance at redemption. It is an expansion on the characters and world introduced in ‘The Apartment‘, Jack’s previous month’s entry. ‘CONCRETE’ utilizes Allegorithmic’s Substance technology, enabling a high level of graphical fidelity at low overhead. The project is the culmination of over 28 months of full-time solo development by Jack and is the second project to be offered for sale via patronage of Dark Acre.

Expedited bill payment processor TIO® Networks Corporation has announced the expansion of its services to First Data’s Money Network® Prepaid Service to include bill payment as well as the purchase of prepaid telecommunication services. TIO’s platform enables Money Network prepaid account holders to pay their bills online as well as purchase minutes for their prepaid mobile phones. Read the rest of this entry »

Start using cutting-edge educational technology in the classroom! Bringing all of your digital stuff in one place, Spongelab PRO provides entire schools with a teaching platform to deliver online science classes for every student. Spongelab PRO helps to save time by blending your materials with Spongelab’s interactive content. See results with instant classroom feedback & live reports. Plus, get live help with training on Blended Learning & real-time support. Best of all, teachers unlock the ability to upload personal teaching files to Spongelab – images, documents, powerpoints, you name it. Read the rest of this entry »

URQUi is a new app that  helps to safely login to multiple websites with a cell phone. Protect your online privacy & security from hacking fraud & id theft. Get a new password from your phone for each login. URQUi passwords are as unique as snowflakes and just as short-lived. They expire in seconds. URQUi is a new personal security protocol that functions on any mobile device and authenticates with any type of digital platform. Read the rest of this entry »

After a lacklustre November and December, Canadian entrepreneurs are feeling more optimistic in early 2013, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB). The Business Barometer® index continued January’s upward trend by rising another half a point to 66.2 in February. Read the rest of this entry »

Best Buy Canada is launching its Electronics Take Back recycling program in Quebec. Beginning March 1, customers in Quebec can responsibly recycle their end-of-life electronics – including TVs, media players, monitors, computers and peripherals – at any local Best Buy store, up to a maximum of two items per day, no matter where they were originally purchased. Customers are asked to drop off their electronics for recycling at the Best Buy customer service desk during business hours. Read the rest of this entry »

The North Vancouver School District’s Digital Media Academy will be hosting the Digital Media Youth Expo 2013 at Argyle Secondary School in North Vancouver this Saturday, March 2nd, from 12 to 4pm. The goal of the Digital Media Youth Expo is similar to that of the DMA which is to bring together high school students and their parents, teachers, post-secondary students, educators and members of industry to learn about the many educational and employment opportunities in digital media. Our key audience is high school students and their parents, however the event is open to anyone in the community. Read the rest of this entry »

On March 6^th, Bay Street’s sharpest minds will compete against one another on Scrabble Night In Canada to raise money for Frontier College, Canada’s original literacy organization. With SCRABBLE® players like TMX Group’s CEO Tom Kloet, and CIBC’s Senior EVP Richard Nesbitt, along with journalists and Olympic athletes, the evening is bound to be a raucous evening, all for a good cause. Read the rest of this entry »

Amazon.ca has announced the finalists for the 37th Annual First Novel Award. This Canadian literary award recognizes the outstanding talent of Canadian novelists who have published their first novel in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »