April 25, 2024

Microsoft talks plans for premium content production, details Xbox 360’s transition to an ‘entertainment console’

Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, just sat down alongside Nancy Tellem, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft LA Studios, to kick off this year's rendition of D:Dive Into Media here in Dana Point, Calif. The first session of the evening is being piloted by AllThingsD's Peter Kafka, and naturally, … [Read more...]

Board of Trade says final transition rules for the return of the PST are still MIA

The return to the PST is just months away and the Surrey Board of Trade says businesses are still waiting for final transition rules from the province.  CEO Anita Huberman says the rules need to come now, not later.   "We have been waiting. We are having a PST educational transitional plan to educate our business community but these rules … [Read more...]

Program helps with ‘intense’ transition when girls leave gangs

With an increase in the number of girls playing a role in gangs in Vancouver, a local gang-awareness program has created a poster to show young women how they can be exploited by gangsters. Amir Javid, founder of the program Street Smarts, said the “girls and gangs” poster project was hard to implement because of the lack of research on the … [Read more...]