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IT hosting provider PEER 1 has launched its public cloud division Zunicore offering Zunicore Cloud Hosting. Built with the business professional in mind, this solution offers users a high degree of control and flexibility, and leverages the established infrastructure of PEER 1 Hosting’s wholly-owned FastFiber Network™. Read the rest of this entry »

Independent developer Pleznt Interactive, Inc is proud to announce its debut iOS casual title Super Nimbus for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices running on iOS 4.2 or later. Super Nimbus is priced at 99 cents USD, is Game Centre enabled and rated 4+. Read the rest of this entry »

Nowadays it seems like every house has 1-2 computers. That is not always the case however. Many low-income households cannot afford a computer. That is why this CTE CH is on a mission — a mission to collect 200 computers and donate them to the Computers for Low Income Calgarians (CLIC) Foundation. Read the rest of this entry »

Allstream continues to be a Canadian leader in Internet Protocol (IP) communications with the launch of Integrated Service Management (ISM) – a fully managed, end-to-end voice and data infrastructure for connectivity, IP Telephony, and other Cisco Unified Communications (UC) applications. Read the rest of this entry »

The Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko (Shevchenko Foundation) is pleased to announce the Kobzar 2012 Literary Award judging panel. The Kobzar Literary Award was created to foster cultural development through the literary arts and create opportunities for all Canadian writers to explore Ukrainian Canadian themes. Read the rest of this entry »

Tbow Corp is excited to announce that Test Drive Assistant has been released for iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android devices ($1.99). Test Drive Assistant is an app created to help people when they’re shopping for a new or used vehicle; be it an automobile, boat, plane, bike, construction/farm equipment, etc. The app accomplishes it’s goal by asking different test drive related questions, and makes it so any pictures taken during the test drive/look over are well sorted and accessible. With the responses, the app generates a rating for how best the vehicle matches the user. Read the rest of this entry »

A $2.1-million investment by the governments of Canada and British Columbia, through the BC Innovation Council, will help Accelerate Okanagan increase the number of technology companies that start and grow in the region. The funding, which is spread over three years, was announced today at the official opening of Accelerate Okanagan, a technology-focused not-for-profit organization that is already benefiting more than 20 local firms through its start-up and growth strategy programs. Read the rest of this entry »

User experience agency Jet Cooper has launched Design in Residence (“DiR”), a program that provides design resources into technology accelerators across Canada. The program will be integrated into startups at Montreal’s FounderFuel, Waterloo’s VeloCity, and Toronto’s MaRS Commons in January 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is delighted to announce esteemed Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis as Chair of the CFC Film Programs including the Cineplex Entertainment and Short Dramatic Film programs. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto based SecureKey Technologies Inc. has been awarded a contract by the Government of Canada to provide an innovative Credential Broker Service (CBS) that will allow Canadians to use their bank authentication credentials to obtain access to online government services. To ensure privacy protection, users of the CBS will authenticate through their bank but neither their login credentials nor the identity of their bank will be shared with the Government of Canada.  Similarly, no information about the government service being accessed by the user will be shared with the user’s bank. Read the rest of this entry »