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RIM & partners create $150M wireless fund
Wednesday, 14 May 2008

IO member company Research in Motion (RIM) today announced a joint venture with Thomspon Reuters and RBC to launch the Blackberry® Partners Fund, a $150M venture capital resource to create mobile applications and services for the Blackberry® platform as well as other mobile platforms. Uniquely the fund, though sponsored by Blackberry® creator RIM,  is platform agnostic and is designed with a mission to boost innovation and drive entrepreneurial spirit across the entire industry.

“The mobile world has evolved well beyond phone calls and simple messaging to require more empowering and liberating solutions that connect people to everything that matters most to them, wherever and whenever they want,” said Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO, Research In Motion.

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IO Seeks Communications & PR Manager
Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Interactive Ontario is currently seeking a new team member to oversee our communications and media relations efforts. If you, or someone you know is passionate about the Interactive Media industry, this is a great chance to stay on top of this exciting, fast-growing sector and be at the centre of the constant information flow! Applicants should be naturally inquisitive and curious with a flair for positioning stories and for creating innovative approaches to the transfer and sharing of information. 

The Manager, Communications & PR will be responsible for:

  • IO Website including multimedia and information services
  • IO Newsletter 
  • Event micro-sites and information services
  • External media relations and partnerships 

Full info is available at in the job listings.

 
VIDFEST 08 - Get wired this May 21st to 24th
Monday, 05 May 2008
VIDFEST 2008

VIDFEST, the Vancouver international digital festival, kicks off May 21 to celebrate its fifth year as the West Coast's go-to international event for all things wired.  This year the annual gathering returns to Granville Island and features a star-studded line-up of interactive industry luminaries.

VIDFEST IS AN EVENT FOR THE TOP CREATIVE MINDS WORKING IN DIGITAL MEDIA. ATTRACTING VISIONARIES FROM GAMES, WEB 2.0, INTERACTIVE DESIGN,  ANIMATION AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS, IT IS AN ANNUAL ‘MUST-ATTEND’ IN VANCOUVER, CANADA.

VIDFEST is an Interactive Ontario / CIAIC partner event. Interactive Ontario members enjoy discounted admission to the festival and should register at the member rate. 

MAY 21-24 2008
www.vidfest.com
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Digital Extremes Celebrates Launch of Dark Sector
Tuesday, 01 April 2008

Dark Sector

On March 25, 2008 Digital Extremes, the next generation game developer based in London, Ontario,  celebrated the North American  launch of their PS3 and Xbox360 title "Dark Sector". The game, set in the near future in a fictional Soviet-bloc country, is a 3rd person superhero saga where players take on the role of lead character Hayden Tenno.

Dark Sector is published by D3Publisher of America and currently has a reader rating of 8.2/10 and a press rating of 7.7/10 in the popular game site IGN.com.

Dark Sector utilizes the Evolution Engine™, a proprietary next generation technology developed by Digital Extremes. 

Buy PS3 version from Best Buy
Buy Xbox360 version from Best Buy

READ the interview with Digital Extremes President James Schmalz in Gamasutra (as interviewed by Scott Colbourne of the Globe and Mail in the session "The New & the Next at ICE 2008) 

READ the press release at Digital Extremes' website. 

 
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