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There are only a couple of weeks left to get your nominations in for the 3rd Annual Canadian Video Game Awards.  The organizers are delighted to announce that this year’s show will be held on April 21st in conjunction with Fan Expo Vancouver at the Vancouver Convention Centre.  Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media Inc. is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Ortsbo Inc, in partnership with Variety, have wrapped up its coverage of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and has produced a microsite with The Variety Studio video interviews and Live & Global programming complete with Ortsbo’s proprietary Language Captioning System, providing real-time subtitling in the user’s selected language.  Read the rest of this entry »

Every seven seconds in Canada, a child is bullied. This alarming statistic fuels the passion behind CKNW’s 5^th annual anti-bullying campaign Pink Shirt Day – Bullying Stops Here! On Wednesday, February 29th, 2012, CKNW are encouraging British Columbians to show their support by wearing pink to symbolize bullying will not be tolerated. Read the rest of this entry »

The payment landscape in Canada is rapidly evolving and stakeholders are facing a number of challenges, including engagement of merchants and consumers and determining the appropriate business model, not to mention mitigating privacy and security risks. The Canadian Institute will be hosting a forum in Toronto this April to address these important issues. Read the rest of this entry »

Last weekend we spent a very enjoyable and informative time at the 6th Game Design Expo presented by Vancouver Film School. As in previous years, we were treated to some very inspiring and informative talks – some that make us wish we were game developers or trying to figure out a way to apply the processes covered to our own project endeavours.

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Top directors from Ridley Scott to Martin Scorsese are now filming in 3D. But what does this shift to mean to the global advertising community? At Advertising Week today, Geneva Film Co. founder and director James Stewart took a detailed journey to the next dimension of advertising. Stewart’s Advertising Week presentation explored new 3D platforms, costs, and implications for creative and storytelling. Read the rest of this entry »

The annual Pwn2Own competition has had a bit of an update, and is now ramping up for this year’s competition at CanSecWest, which takes place in Vancouver this March 7th through9th.  The competition organizers over at Zero Day Initiative feel that this update will represent a welcome change both competitors and spectators alike. Read the rest of this entry »

The spread of social media at the Annual World Economic Forum 2012, in particular the use of Twitter, has extended the dialogue beyond the meeting rooms and corridors of Davos to the global community as evidenced in this first group of statistics: Read the rest of this entry »

Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, is holding a public Symposium, Beware of Surveillance by Design: Standing Up for Freedom and Privacy, to raise awareness of the serious privacy implications of online surveillance and proposed federal “lawful access” legislation. Read the rest of this entry »

Reboot Communications, in partnership with Greedy Productions, is pleased to announce the Canadian Video Game Awards will be held April 21, 2012 in Vancouver. As the third largest developer of video games in the world, this year’s show will recognize the contribution of Canadian developers to the international interactive entertainment community. Read the rest of this entry »