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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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Toronto – Storage Appliance Corp., developers of Clickfree, the easiest-to-use PC backup solutions on the market, today announced two new products, the Clickfree Traveler and Clickfree DVD Transformer. Available May 7, 2009, both devices are PC and Mac compatible, and eliminate the confusing and time-consuming hassle associated with backing up irreplaceable digital data.

As light as a pen and the size of a credit card, the flash-based Traveler slips easily into a wallet, allowing business travelers, photographers, music lovers and others to carry up to 64GBs of data in their hip pocket or purse. The Clickfree DVD Transformer enables consumers to quickly and easily back up important data to optical discs, bypassing tricky CD and DVD burning software. Coupled with recordable CDs and/or DVDs, it’s an inexpensive yet foolproof way to back up important files.
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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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Vancouver/Swindon – Intrinsyc Software International, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for mobile devices headquartered in Vancouver, and Ubiquisys, the leading developer of 3G femtocells based in Swindon, UK have today announced UX-Zone, an application that changes the appearance of the Android phone interface automatically as you enter your home or office. UX-Zonetm from Intrinsyc incorporates femtocell presence triggers from the Ubiquisys FemtoApps initiative.

Femtocells are tiny 3G mobile access points that plug in to a standard broadband connection in homes and businesses. They combine excellent mobile coverage indoors with very fast low cost data connections. As you arrive at a building with a femtocell, your phone automatically switches over from the outside network to the femtocell. Mobile operators are looking at ways of harnessing this combination of fast low-cost data and automatic presence to develop new services for their customers.
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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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Calgary – ICEsoft™ Technologies, Inc., a leading global provider of open source enterprise Java technologies and sponsor of the award winning ICEfaces® open source project, today announced a new addition to its open source product portfolio. ICEpdf®, ICEsoft’s Java PDF library and engine, is now available under the MPL open source license.

ICEpdf is a lightweight open source Java PDF rendering library that can be easily integrated within any Java-based client application or deployed on a server in headless mode as a PDF servlet (JSP or JSF). ICEpdf is ideal for providing PDF viewing and navigation as well as PDF content conversion and extraction without the hassles of Java-to-native integration issues.
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Vancouver – NewspaperDirect Inc., the world leader in multi-channel newspaper and magazine content distribution and monetization, announces that version 2 of its PressReader software is now available for the iRex Digital Reader, delivering more than 1,000 full content newspapers and magazines to users of this unique eReading device.

Introduced in December 2008 and now pre-installed on the iRex 1000 series of digital readers, NewspaperDirect’s PressReader software has enabled thousands of downloads of publications from the largest online newspaper and magazine kiosk in the world, PressDisplay.com, as well as hundreds of privately labelled ePapers powered by PressDisplay and SmartEdition technology; publications such as: The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Age, Le Figaro, The Irish Times and all CanWest, Sun Media and Transcontinental titles.
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Quebec City – All non-profit organizations now have access to an affordable project management system for their activities. “Starting May 1st, it is the official policy of Websystems to give a 20% discount to all non-profits who use AceProject,” says Daniel Raymond, President of Websystems, inc.

Non-profit organizations that already subscribe to AceProject can request the rebate by emailing info[at]aceproject[dot]com. Other non-profit organizations who would like to subscribe to AceProject, can request the rebate at the time of purchase. AceProject is available now online. A demo is available at demo.aceproject.com and free accounts can be created at free.aceproject.com.

Toronto – The Order of the Business Hall of Fame officially welcomed this year’s Order of the Business Hall of Fame Companions 31st annual Gala Dinner Induction Ceremony last night at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

The annual awards program honours leaders of Canadian business who have made exceptional contributions to the economy, community and Canadian society. “In today’s economy, it is more important than ever to have active role models who demonstrate exceptional leadership. The 2009 Inductees are examples of what all of us in business and education might aspire to, said Ross Maund, President, Junior Achievement of Canada Foundation.
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Montreal – With the theme of Innovation and Digital Identity, the sixth annual Webcom Montreal International Conference will take place on May 13 at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICOA) in Montreal. Speakers and participants alike will explore current issues such as innovation and digital identity, but also how to bring added value to businesses through the application of social networking tools as a means of increasing productivity. Webcom is the largest French-language conference in North America to look at new information and communication technologies.
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