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Premier McGuinty visits the Xtreme Labs Office

Yesterday we had the privilege of hosting Premier Dalton McGuinty, and Toronto’s local MPP Glen Murray for a press visit to our offices.  With less than 24hours notice, we jumped into action to prepare our offices for the Premier’s visit. His visit stressed the importance of job growth in Ontario, heralding Xtreme Labs as “yet [...]

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Xtreme Coders ‘Learn and Hack’ to Perfect WP7 Platform

What do you get when you put 30 eager developers in a room and give them a whole day with a new OS platform? You get the Xtreme-Nokia ‘Learn and Hack,’ of course! The highly anticipated internal event took place this past weekend and was a great success. A group of 30 staff, (proudly not [...]

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Xtreme-Nokia ‘Learn and Hack’

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It was only a few short weeks ago that our office was buzzing with the excitement over hosting the Ladies Learning Code workshop. It was a great day filled with paired-programming, awesome development, and the formation of new friendships. Those who participated even got to ‘demo’ or present what they created in the same style [...]

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Shutterstock is Revitalizing Stock Imagery

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With the new Shutterstock iPad app you can now access over 17 million images with the touch of a finger! Shutterstock’s collaboration with Xtreme Labs has produced a brilliant iPad application, which showcases 26+ categories of captivating imagery with a simple and beautiful user interface. When you first open up the Shutterstock app on your iPad you [...]

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Ladies Learning Code Workshop Gets ‘Xtreme’

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This Saturday, January 28th, Xtreme Labs will open its doors to host the Ladies Learning Code Mobile workshop. This sold-out event is a full-day workshop where some of the best developers from the Toronto tech community come together to mentor women interested in advancing their knowledge of how to code. “I love when the office [...]

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College Sports Anytime, Anywhere with the NCAA iPhone App

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Watching the latest NCAA sports reel from the comfort of your own couch is not always a reality.  For all those times you can’t make it back for game time, there is now the new NCAA mobile app for your iPhone or iPod Touch! With this app you can now stream live games, and watch [...]

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Treehouse for Kids: “Are We There Yet” Insurance

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For most of us over the age of 25 there was a certain learning curve associated with the adoption of the Internet, computers, and other new technologies.  But for the younger generations who have been born under the technology sign, hard copies of magazines and libraries are quickly becoming foreign concepts (as evidenced here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk).   [...]

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BrandPower: Helping You Buy Better via Mobile

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As a society we are becoming more and more reliant on the insight gained from consumer-reviewed products.  Word-of-mouth is making a comeback in this digital age now that the entire marketplace is connected. Brand Power’s collaboration with Xtreme Labs has brought together word-of-mouth and the digital age in the form of the Brand Power app [...]

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Keeping Cool with Node.js

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Xtreme Labs is headquartered in the Canadian Pacific Building, which when completed in 1913 was the tallest building in the British Empire. Along with that heritage, the building has an HVAC that may be originally from that era as well resulting in the office temperature fluctuating during the day; of course, it also doesn’t help [...]

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Ice Cream Sandwich is no longer just a tasty frozen treat!

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At long last, Google’s highly anticipated Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich) hit the market.  Google’s newest smartphone offering brings a refined and unified UI for phones and tablets, in addition to introducing many new innovative features. So what is new? The most exciting new feature of 4.0 is the Android Beam.  The Android Beam [...]

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