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Vancouver – Destiny Media Technologies, Inc., the industry’s leading secure digital media distribution company, is pleased to announce that Australian partner, The Shooting Star Picture Company has established a partnership with the Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) to provide media distribution services for Australia’s 300+ indie record companies through the Play MPE® music delivery software.

The deal sees the industry body enable all its members to join major independents Shock, Inertia, Remote Control, Liberation, Shogun and many more who are all using the system to service pre-release music to the media. With major labels Universal, EMI and Warner also utilising the system, Play MPE® has firmly become the industry standard for promotional music delivery in Australia.
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Vancouver – SwitchIn.net, a leading portal for casual 3d MMO’s has acquired the distribution and rights to the portal Armored Legion.

“By acquiring not only the rights to the distribution of the portal but also the key technology base of Armored Legion it allows us to grow in the more traditional RPG sector,” said Derek Young , President of SwitchIn. “This means we can continue to make great casual games but also some very exciting upcoming MMORPG games.”
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Calgary/Toronto – Shaw Communications Inc. and Corus Entertainment Inc. introduce a new dimension to television viewing, to provide the largest offering of 3-D TV in Canada. A first in the marketplace, Shaw Video on Demand and Corus’ Movie Central will roll out a range of ongoing 3-D content – from box office feature films, family programming, sports, concert events and specials – directly into your home.

“We are convinced that 3-D is the next big breakthrough for enhancing the in-home entertainment experience, and we are committed to developing the content and advancing the technology to support this,” said Jim Shaw, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chair, Shaw Communications Inc. “With the recent success of 3-D theatrical films at the box office and with an expanding lineup of live action and animated 3-D content in the works, there is clearly a growing excitement and appetite for 3-D entertainment and Shaw is at the forefront of this innovation.”
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Toronto – TELUS today announced that it has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. in which TELUS is granted the exclusive license to host and operate the HealthVault platform for the development of a consumer-focused e-health service in Canada. The service will be called TELUS Health Space, powered by Microsoft HealthVault.

The service will be the first of its kind in Canada, letting Canadians manage and store their personal health information and have access to applications like personal health record, chronic disease management, pediatric care and wellness products that will allow better management of their health and the health of their family.
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Waterloo – Open Text™ Corporation, a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, and Vignette Corporation, the company that the world’s leading brands rely on for innovative and dynamic web experiences, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Vignette will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text.

Vignette shareholders will receive US $8.00 in cash plus 0.1447 of an Open Text common share for every Vignette common share which equates to approximately US $12.70 at close of market on May 5, 2009. This represents a premium of approximately 74% above the 30 trading day average closing price of Vignette’s shares and approximately 41% above the most recent closing price. This values the transaction at approximately US $310 million.
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Toronto – Organizations who are looking for new ways to engage with their customers, employees, students, or stakeholders are finding that virtual world technologies provide a cost-effective way to broadcast and interact with their communities. Metanomics™, a weekly on-line broadcast on the serious uses of virtual worlds, is a leading source of insight into the best practices, case studies, and research into these cost-effective methods to build and inform community, and was re-launched today by Remedy Communications.

Remedy Communications also announced that it was starting a new season of the Metanomics weekly show with special guest Mark Kingdon, CEO of Linden Lab, and that it had unveiled new Web resources and social media applications.
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Ottawa – A coalition of independent telecommunications service providers is asking the Canadian Federal Government to send a clear message that increased competition in the broadband Internet market is necessary for Canadians and Canadian businesses.

In April, MTS Allstream, Bell Canada, Bell Aliant and TELUS petitioned the Federal Government. MTS Allstream’s petition sought to ensure and expand competitive access to last mile broadband facilities, while Bell and TELUS asked that recent CRTC decisions and orders in that regard be overruled.

“Internet access and other broadband services are a fundamental element of economic growth,” said Coalition spokesperson and Chair of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) Tom Copeland. “The Coalition is concerned that the full creative and productivity-enhancing potential of these services will not be realized if Bell and TELUS are allowed to control the pace and extent of competition through their stranglehold on network infrastructure.”
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Ottawa – StorageQuest, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of a new product called the StorageQuest Centurion DiscHub Manager. This new software product provides powerful optical volume management features to the Centurion DiscHub by DSS, Digistore Solutions (S) Pte. Ltd. This new software product will be bundled with the Centurion DiscHub to create the Centurion DiscHub Workgroup.

A message from the President and CEO for StorageQuest Inc, Marwan Zayed: “The combination of the Centurion DiscHub with the StorageQuest Centurion DiscHub Manager will create an fully loaded 100 slot capacity near-line DVD optical library solution in the neighborhood of $3,000 USD. A comparable solution typically costs many times more for similar features and specifications. We anticipate a great deal demand for this new bundle. The bundle can be utilized by virtually anyone from home user to large businesses.”
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Ottawa – Corel Corporation today introduced the Corel Graphics Enterprise License (CGEL) Program, a new solution for enterprises with 250 users or more that will enable site-wide licensing of Corel’s award-winning graphics software including CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite and CorelDRAW® Essentials. Designed to offer simplified administration, this new program equips enterprise users with the tools they need to communicate more effectively and with greater impact, at a fraction of the cost of purchasing individual licenses.
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Toronto – Yangaroo Inc., the industry’s leading secure digital media distribution company, is pleased to announce that it has been granted United States patent #7,529,712 titled “Content Distribution System and Method” by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This patent will be in effect until 2026.

The U.S. patent for “Content Distribution System and Method” covers a method of distributing digital content, such as music and advertising, to selected individuals over the Internet, in which the uploading content provider selects the individuals that are entitled to access the content and sets release conditions, such as a time and date. Once the identities of the selected individuals have been verified at login, they are provided with access to the uploaded content if those release conditions are met.
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