VANCOUVER, June 15, 2011 /CNW/ - British Columbia's cleantech industry is one of the province's fastest growing industries and has the potential to be a significant economic generator by creating thousands of new high paying jobs, attracting significant new investment and generating billions of dollars in exports.

TORONTO, May 9 /CNW/ - Blurb, the global creative publishing platform has launched its new mobile publishing application, Blurb Mobile. Designed to enable easy and fast story creation using rich media content, including photos, videos and audio, the stories can be shared via the author's existing social networking channels (including Facebook and Twitter), by email, or via their own Blurb channel.

OTTAWA, April 26 /CNW/ - With today's release of the REALTOR.ca app for Blackberry®, the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) now has apps for three of the most popular smartphones. REALTOR.ca is the most visited real estate website in Canada, listing on average some 350,000 properties at any time.

TORONTO, April 19 /CNW/ - ING DIRECT Canada has once again made it easier for clients to save anytime, anywhere, with the addition of a BlackBerry PlayBook App to its suite of mobile banking applications. ING DIRECT was the first bank in Canada to offer a BlackBerry App, iPhone App and mobile website simultaneously last year, and has since added iPad, Android and Windows Phone 7 Apps.

WASHINGTON DC, April 18 /CNW/ - In Washington DC today, eight Supreme Court justices heard oral argument of the appeal for i4i v Microsoft. Microsoft has asked the Supreme Court to lower the standard of proof, for challenges to the validity of a properly issued patent, from clear and convincing evidence to a preponderance of evidence.

OTTAWA, April 18 /CNW/ - Recycle My Cell - Canada's free cell phone recycling program - is calling on Canadians from coast to coast to round up their old cell phones and accessories during Earth Week 2011 and do their part in protecting our environment.

VANCOUVER, April 14 /CNW/ - Can the number of likes a candidate has on Facebook indicate their chances of winning the 2011 Canadian Federal election? That's what the teams at Optimum PR and Dare Labs in Vancouver wanted to find out, so they have joined forces to create The Social Election Experiment (http://www.socialelection.ca).

MONTREAL, April 6 /CNW Telbec/ - Every year, more than 50 000 children are reported missing in Canada. Avis de recherche (ADR.tv), the television channel devoted to public safety, is launching Child Alert, an iPhone application that allows parents to create and save a digital profile of their child. In the event of emergency, parents can then quickly send this data sheet to the authorities. A version for Android will be available in the near future.

March 31 /CNW/ - Barrett Xplore Inc., through its Xplornet brand, has activated its 4G WiMAX high-speed Internet coverage in Prescott and Russell and surrounding areas, including many parts of East Hawkesbury, Clarence-Rockland, Casselman, Alfred- Plantagenet and La Nation west of Fournier. Prescott and Russell are the first Ontario communities to receive Xplornet 4G coverage.

OTTAWA-GATINEAU, March 7 /CNW/ - The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today approved BCE Inc.'s acquisition of CTVglobemedia Inc. This transaction will improve access to local programming through the carriage of at least 43 additional conventional and community television stations on BCE's satellite television service.

NEW YORK, March 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wall Street Journal announced today that a "WSJ House of the Day" app for iPad is now available for free from the App Store.

Based on the popular "House of the Day" feature from WSJ.com (http://on.wsj.com/houseoftheday) the new app takes users inside sleek, modern homes, urban renovations, sprawling McMansions and historic estates from across the United States. The WSJ House of the Day app allows users to:

It's February and love is in the air, but a new survey by Virgin Mobile Canada shows that 83% of Canadians have fallen out of love withValentine's Day. As people from coast to coast are rethinking their relationship with the "Hallmark Holiday," many are taking some time to rethink their intimate relationships too.

TTAWA, Feb. 14 /CNW/ - On February 1, the national public broadcaster unveiled its five-year strategy, Everyone, Every way. The plan focuses on three priorities: network programming, services to the country's regions and digital platforms.

TORONTO, Feb. 8 /CNW/ - At a time when smartphone use has become engrained in everyday life as a primary way to communicate, work and share, a new survey from Norton reveals that 33 percent of consumers in Canada1 and 36 percent of consumers in the U.S. have fallen victim to cell phone loss or theft.

TORONTO, Feb. 7 /CNW/ - Sony of Canada ("Sony") today announced the Canadian launch of "Video On Demand powered by Qriocity™."

"Video On Demand powered by Qriocity™" is a premium streaming video service that allows film fans to rent from a growing library of hundreds of Hollywood blockbusters from NBC Universal Television Distribution, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Walt Disney Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, as well as films from local studios, straight to their Sony 2010 and 2011 network-enabled BRAVIA® TV, Blu-ray Disc™ player, or Blu-ray Disc Home Theatre system.

WIND's innovative all-IP 3G+ network continues to evolve toward the next generation of mobile technology with the exclusive North American introduction of HD Voice

TORONTO - After becoming the first major bank in Canada to launch a mobile banking App last year, CIBC today announced another mobile innovation with the launch of the free CIBC Home Advisor App for all Canadians, that gives homebuyers access to helpful information, tools, and advice right from their iPhone or BlackBerry smartphone while they’re out house hunting.

Mrs. Harper was on hand at Toronto's Runnymede Junior and Senior Public School today for the Canadian Centre for Child Protection's national launch of textED.ca - an innovative website designed to help teach children safe texting practices. The average teen sends 3,339 texts per month. That's more than six texts per waking hour.

MONTREAL, Nov. 16 /CNW Telbec/ - Royal LePage Real Estate Services are proud to announce that the properties for sale on the Réseau Longpré Lamirande will now have a QR code. Smartphone users of the Magog and Memphrémagog regions will be able to instantly access fact sheets of properties for sale by holding their device in front of the code appearing on the sign.

Ask.com, formerly Ask Jeeves and one of the most used search engines in the late 1990's will lay off remaining staff and refocus on a Q&A service.

Coffee culture inspires Sun Life Financial's My Retirement Café site

OTTAWA, Nov. 5 /CNW/ - Living near a cell phone tower can be very harmful, according to a study published today by The National Research Council Journal.

39% playing more social games.

Officers in San Jose can now submit citations and gain immediate access to critical law enforcement data, including fingerprints and mug shots, directly from their vehicles

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwire - October 18, 2010) - Intelligent Living Corp. ("ILVC"), (OTCBB: ILVC), a leading automation and technology solutions provider utilizing green building practices, announced today that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Smallworks Studios / Laneway Housing, Inc. ("Smallworks"), to establish a definitive agreement for the formation of a joint venture to utilize and expand Smallworks production capacity to a target annual sales of $20 million.

MEAFORD, ON, Oct. 18 /CNW/ - Parents of St. Vincent Euphrasia elementary school have voted overwhelmingly to turn off WiFi microwave transmitters in their children's classrooms.

TORONTO, Oct 8 /CNW/ - Rogers Communications Inc.today announced that its founder, the late Edward S. "Ted" Rogers, has been inducted into the international Wireless History Foundation Hall of Fame. Mr. Rogers, who passed away in December 2008 at age 75, founded what became Rogers Communications in 1960 when he borrowed $85,000 to purchase fledgling FM radio station CHFI in Toronto

Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc. (MRIS) has joined forces with RETechnology.com, an unbiased real estate technology authority for up-to-date product education and reviews.

Alameda, CA (Vocus) September 24, 2010 - Inman News’ Real Estate Connect is turning 15, and the anniversary will be celebrated in New York City January 12-14, 2011 at the Marriott Marquis hotel in the heart of Times Square.

TORONTO, Sept. 24 /CNW/ - Visa Canada and its Canadian card-issuing financial institutions, in response to requests from the merchant community, have assisted merchants by postponing the domestic chip liability shift's effective date to March 31, 2011. This date signifies when Canadian merchants become liable for domestic card-present fraudulent transactions that may have been avoided by adopting Chip technology. Liability involving chip cards used at non-chip devices was originally slated to shift on October 1, 2010, but issuers will continue to absorb the liability for domestic transactions until March 31, 2011.

TORONTO, Sept. 22 /CNW/ - ING DIRECT enhanced its mobile banking suite with the launch of its free AndroidTM App, once again simplifying and easing saving for Canadians anywhere, anytime.

SEATTLE and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Mint.com and Zillow.com® have partnered to help customers determine their homes' value as part of their overall financial portfolio.

TORONTO, Sept. 22 /CNW/ -- Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the leading Internet movie subscription service, today launched in Canada with an offering that allows Canadians to instantly watch unlimited movies and TV episodes streamed from Netflix to TVs and computers for only $7.99 a month.

CAMPBELL, Calif., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) and Move, Inc. (Nasdaq:MOVE), the leader in online real estate, today announced recent discussions related to their 14-year operating agreement have resulted in an updated agreement intended to drive more competitive and rapid innovations to their flagship site, Realtor.com®.

TORONTO, Sept. 10 /CNW/ - Nokia and Videotron announced the availability of the Nokia 5230 on Videotron's brand new 3G+ network. A stylish and versatile 3G Touch-Screen smartphone that offers access to a wide variety of services, the Nokia 5230 operates on Symbian - one of the world's most popular and open operating platforms - allowing for multitasking and true personalization of the homescreen and menu screens.

Canada's original mobile industry conference returns to Toronto: MOBILEINNOVATIONWEEK 2010 begins September 13

TORONTO, Aug. 30 /CNW/ - Yahoo! and Zoocasa, Canada's fastest growing real estate search site, today announced the launch of a new application that enables Canadians to access Zoocasa's online real estate search service directly from their Yahoo.ca homepage.

TORONTO, May 31 /CNW/ - RBC today launched myFinanceTracker, Canada's first online financial management tool integrated into an online banking system. myFinanceTracker will automatically categorize transactions, track expenses and provide advanced budgeting capabilities for all personal banking and credit card accounts.