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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 – MySpace Canada, the leading social portal in Canada, today announced a new social classifieds service called MySpace Canada Classifieds. Powered by Oodle, MySpace Canada Classifieds offers users a safe – and social – marketplace to buy and sell products and services within their trusted group of friends for free.

Through MySpace Canada’s social networking framework, users are able to easily share information about what they are looking for with their friends through MySpace bulletins and blogs. Because user profiles are attached to each listing, MySpace users get a better understanding of who they’re selling to, trading with or buying from. These features make MySpace Canada Classifieds a safer environment and provide a more efficient way to connect buyers and sellers.
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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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Salzburg – Australia, Austria, Canada and New Zealand will walk the stage at the World Summit Award Gala on June 12th and collect the winning trophies for the world’s best e-Contents. These four countries emerged as clear leaders in the global contest held in the framework of the United Nations and its follow-on activities to the World Summit on Information Society.

Canadian Winners:

A Journey Into Time Immemorial from the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Department won the e-Culture & Heritage Award. The site, which is based on First Nations traditional knowledge and content was developed in collaboration with the Sto:lo web site development committee and staff of the Xa:ytem Longhouse Interpretive Center. It is an artistic and cultural interpretation and is not meant to convey precisely accurate archaeological information. Contemporary archaeologists view First Nations as partners and value oral traditions as a source of information about the past that augments the scientific approach.

The multi-award winning site Homeless Nation was victorious in the e-Inclusion & Participation category. Homeless Nation is a non-profit endeavor founded by Daniel Cross, a documentary filmmaker whose films deal with social justice and Canada’s homeless. Montreal-based Homeless Nation is an internet forum where Canada’s homeless community could share their stories and refuse to be ignored. A place to create equal access to online media, of sharing truths through audio/visual content for everyone to learn from. To have these stories told as an on-going dialogue for social awareness and positive change.

Genomics Digital Lab took top prize in the e-Science & Technology category. Operated by Toronto’s SpongeLab, Genomics Digital Lab is an integrated on-line learning environment where users experience the world of biology through discovery-based learning. GDL was developed as a series of curriculum-aligned and integrated games, modules, and interactive simulations covering an array of topics in biology. To meet the needs of students, teachers, and schools, GDL is designed to be fully online, accessible through a web browser, with no downloads, or installation, accessible from home or school, and provides teachers with much needed class creation tools and integrated real-time assessment. Read the rest of this entry »

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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Vancouver – New Media BC is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2009 Individual Stand Out Awards!

* Individual Stand Out: Industry Advocacy

– Dennis Chenard, Director of Industry Relation, Masters of Digital Media Program, Great Northern Way Campus
– Danny Robinson, Managing Director, Bootup Labs / Co-founder, Launch Party Vancouver
– Lynda Brown, Digital Media Consultant / Co-founder, zuluMe

* Individual Stand Out: Digital Education
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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 – Rove Inc., developer of system administration software that provides mobile management of IT systems and infrastructure, announced that its flagship product, Mobile Admin, fully supports the newly launched Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.
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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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