Softchoice Corporation (TSX:SO) said its Softchoice Advisor iPad App has earned the silver award in the Multimedia Competition at the International Design Awards. Presented at a gala event in Los Angeles, the International Design Awards (IDA) celebrates the world’s most visionary designers and promotes the appreciation of design worldwide. Softchoice launched Softchoice Advisor [...]

Google Maps may be the dominant player in the mapping business still, but there’s a rising star in an open-source competitor called OpenStreetMap that’s been heavily backed by Microsoft. Due to the high fees of using Google Maps, some major services, including FourSquare and Apple’s iPhoto app, have already defected to using OpenStreetMap instead.OpenStreetMap [...]

JiWire, Inc., a location-based mobile media company, has closed a US $20 million Series C round of financing led by Trident Capital with participation from existing investors Comcast Interactive Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Norwest Venture Partners and Panorama Capital. John Moragne, co-founder of Trident Capital, has joined JiWire’s board of directors. JiWire has, to date, [...]

Mobilicity has closed a $215 million a debt offering led by National Bank Financial Inc. and GMP Securities.  Subscribers to the debt offering are “Canada’s premier institutions.” Mobilicity said the offering represents one of the largest capital raises for an emerging telecommunications carrier in Canada in recent years, and will provide growth capital to further strengthen [...]

Mobilicity today announced the appointment of Anthony Booth as Chief Customer Officer of the company.  Booth will oversee Mobilicity’s sales and marketing operations. Booth will be responsible for brand development, national distribution network of Mobilicity retail stores and network of dealer partners. Booth joins Mobilicity from Mars Canada Inc. where for the past 2 and [...]

OnX Enterprise Solutions said BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet will be online from the OnX website. The  tablet will be available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models. BlackBerry PlayBook specifications7″ 1024×600 WSVGA capacitive LCD touch screen Ultra-portable at less than a pound and less than one-half inch thick: 0.9 lbs (425g) and 5.1″ x 7.6″ [...]

Payfone, Inc., a provider of mobile payments, has closed a US $19 million Series C round of strategic financing led by American Express with participations from Verizon Investments Inc./Verizon Ventures, Rogers Ventures, and existing investors Opus Capital, BlackBerry Partners Fund and RRE Ventures. The US $19 million round is one the of the largest mobile payments funding rounds [...]

Kobo Inc., a provider of global eReading, said it plans to launch local content stores in Germany and Spain starting in May 2011, with local stores for France, Italy and the Netherlands following shortly after.  Kobo said it will be continuing its European expansion with other countries to follow. Kobo’s European stores will offer customers local content merchandised to the [...]