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The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is pleased to announce the launch of ScopifyROM, an exciting new smartphone application that allows visitors to experience ROM objects in fun and interactive ways, including Animating a dodo, X-raying a mummy, and Skinning a dino. Developed by Toronto-based production company Kensington Communications, the studio behind Museum Secrets, ScopifyROM is a digital discovery platform that allows visitors to interact with select objects throughout ROM galleries in ways never before possible in any museum. By using their smartphone as a series of “scopes”, visitors can uncover exclusive ROM research and curatorial secrets. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you have what it takes to create the next blockbuster game or mobile app? Today the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and wearable technology company, Mind Pirate, announced the companies have partnered to create the ideaBOOST/Mind Pirate Production Lab: a program that will give select developers and/or companies the opportunity to create games and apps for the next consumer mega trend of wearable technology. Select products from the program may be published and brought to market at a future date. Together the program employs the framework of CFC’s ideaBOOST accelerator program and the technology, expertise and vision of Mind Pirate. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the world’s leading digital content hubs and renowned for its mobile and online experiences, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is launching its new interactive photo essay The Last Hunt, online and as an app available at the iTunes Store and Google Play. The Last Hunt will also be one of the 25 groundbreaking interactive projects featured on October 3 at the Story Arcade as part of the Future of StoryTelling Summit in New York City, which annually brings together top executives and creative talent to change the way stories are told. Read the rest of this entry »

A partnership between Backroad Mapbooks and the Province is bringing the exciting activity of ‘geo-caching‘ to 18 of B.C.’s popular recreation sites and trails. In recognition of their 20th anniversary, Backroad Mapbooks has developed a GeoTour program to celebrate and promote Canada’s beautiful backcountry. The GeoTour is based on the popular recreation activity of ‘geo-caching’ – a modern-day treasure hunt that uses GPS co-ordinates to locate containers (called caches) and collect ‘treasures’ in a specific area or along a specific route. Read the rest of this entry »

Trusted identity network service provider SecureKey has introduced its enhanced cloud-based briidge.net™ Connect multi-factor authentication service. This latest version of briidge.net Connect incorporates the new briidge.net Connect Mobile SDK, which enables developers to easily add robust multi-factor authentication capabilities into iOS and Android™ mobile apps. With the Connect SDK, developers can embed capabilities like QuickCode secure PIN and zero-touch device authentication into high-value apps such as retail banking, mobile payment, content subscription, social media and others, simplifying the user experience and reducing the user password management burden for service providers. Read the rest of this entry »

Kelowna’s WTFast has announced the launch of its new data network designed exclusively for massive multi-player online (MMO) gamers and publishers. The WTFast GPN^TM (Gamers Private Network) uses proprietary software and a private global data network designed exclusively for the transmission and delivery of game data. Built by a team of passionate MMO gamers, the WTFast GPN^TM helps to ensure players around the globe always have the fastest, strongest, smoothest game connection available. Read the rest of this entry »

BroadbandTV, YouTube’s fourth largest Multi-Channel Network, has just officially launched VISO Catalyst, its powerful web-platform that enables channel partners to optimize their video content and save time and money by more effectively managing their digital assets. Benchmarking analysis across 1062 videos uncovered that on average, users of VISO Catalyst benefit from an approximate 34% increase in viewership of their content in just 30 days. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based in-game advertising company Reloaded Interactive has announced the launch of a dynamic in-game advertising campaign for Virgin EMI Records, promoting Avicii’s debut album ‘TRUE’. The campaign, which was planned by British media agency the7stars, is set to run from September 16^th through to September 22^nd, 2013 and will be delivered into the PC video game Striker Superstars, which is one of many games participating in the Reloaded network. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management developer OpenText™  has announced a partnership with ExactTarget to develop and sell an integrated solution that will speed the flow of rich media to digital marketers for use in their omni-channel campaigns. Leveraging ExactTarget’s industry-leading digital marketing platform and OpenText Digital Asset Management, part of the OpenText Customer Experience Management (CEM) suite, the offering will help solve a critical bottleneck for enterprises looking to deliver engaging and personalized experiences across all customer touch points. The new solution is being debuted at ExactTarget’s Connections conference in Indianapolis. The new solution will be available worldwide to all ExactTarget and OpenText CEM customers in Q1 Calendar Year 2014. Read the rest of this entry »

US-based MailChimp has announced a new and enhanced integration with social relationship platform HootSuite, making it even easier for marketing teams who use HootSuite and MailChimp to manage their social and email campaigns all from one dashboard. Read the rest of this entry »