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Ubisoft Might Be Working on Nintendo Wii U MMO Project

A list of job openings posted by the Quebec studio of French publisher Ubisoft has offered information that the company might be working on a MMO project that will be launched on the upcoming Nintendo Wii U home console.Emile Gauthier, who is a communication specialist at Ubisoft, says that the developer is looking f...

7 December 2011
05:31 GMT

TELUS Intros Promotional $30 6GB Data Add-on, Limited to Quebec Customers

In direct response to Bell, TELUS has just debuted a promotional 6GB data add-on for only $30, which is exclusively available to customers in Quebec. The current promotion will run from June 29 through July 31 and will be available for all new, existing and renewing customers. Furthermore, it appears that only ...

4 July 2011
07:59 GMT

IBM to Install Quebec's Most Powerful and Energy-Efficient Supercomputer

McGill University today announced an $8.3-million CDN contract with IBM in Canada to acquire a supercomputer cluster, which, after being installed, will become the most powerful supercomputer in Quebec and the second-most energy-efficient data centre in Canada.The new supercomputer is based on IBM's iDataPlex so...

15 June 2011
10:49 GMT

Apple Buys Mapping Firm Poly9

A Google-translated report by the French version of The Sun reveals that Apple continues to gather talented minds for yet unconfirmed developments. The company’s latest acquisition is that of Quebec-based high-tech company Poly9, a mapping firm. Under the terms of the acquisition, the majority of Poly9’s ...

14 July 2010
10:05 GMT

Ubisoft Quebec Plans Huge Releases

Ubisoft may have two studios in Quebec, but Ubisoft Montreal is far better known than the other one. Still, the second studio won't let the big shadow cast by Ubisoft M. cloud their growth and are planning a brand-new game. The product is presented by the company as a ground-breaking game in need of talented dev...

1 October 2009
06:00 GMT

Deafness Favored by Loud Workplaces

According to a new Canadian study of workplaces, more than 60 percent of employees in the metallurgy and saw milling sectors are daily exposed to noises that exceed by far the maximum health limits approved by the government. This state of affairs has been directly linked to an increased number of accidents, both at ...

11 March 2009
18:01 GMT

Microsoft Plans Deep Dive into Tools for Componentized Windows 7 'Quebec'

In addition to the Windows 7 client and server operating system, Microsoft plans to take Windows Vista's successor on an array of devices where Windows XP feels right at home. At the end of October 2008, the Redmond company revealed that it would skip Vista entirely with its next iteration of Windows Embedded op...

19 December 2008
15:51 GMT

WWW Expects a New Domain

The world wide web may get a new domain name, especially .qc, anytime soon as the Quebec officials started a petition in order to convince the responsible organizations that the country deserves its own domain. Until now, Quebec's websites were available under a qc.ca extension but the officials intend to remove...

21 April 2008
08:23 GMT

17 People Arrested for Attacking 1 Million Computers

Hacking has become more and more organized in the past years. Very rarely will a computer geek be seen sending spam and phishing all by himself, organizations have been formed and there's even a black market dealing with acquiring security vulnerabilities, paying up to one hundred grand depending on how severe t...

21 February 2008
16:56 GMT


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