TORONTO - Rogers Wireless and Fido customers can now send and receive updates from the popular messaging service Twitter via SMS text message over their mobile phones. The feature, which until... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG – One of these deadlines has got to be the real one. It’s May 5th and CanWest Global Communications faces yet another deadline with its lenders and bondholders. As... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – After similar announcements made in B.C. and Alberta, Telus has announced plans to invest more than $300 million on its advanced wireless and wireline broadband infrastructure in Ontario. The... Continue Reading
TORONTO and MONTREAL - Look Communications is selling its spectrum and broadcast license for $80 million in cash to Bell Canada and Rogers Communications, through their joint venture Inukshuk Wireless Partnership.... Continue Reading
OTTAWA - MTS Allstream is asking the federal government to reject proposals from Bell Canada and Telus that it says would “stifle broadband internet competition”.The company issued a statement Monday... Continue Reading
TORONTO - The new agreement between ACTRA, the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) and l’Association des producteurs de films et de télévision du Québec (APFTQ) was brokered quickly... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Rogers Communications plans to buy up 1.3 million of its outstanding Class B non-voting shares for cancellation in a private purchase. The aggregate purchase price is expected to be... Continue Reading
WATERLOO, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) has debuted a new BlackBerry application programming interface (API) that will let developers ‘push’ real-time content applications to consumers' BlackBerry smart phones. Push technology provides a... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - Astral Media urged the government to proceed with “caution” before amending any broadcast industry regulations, and encouraged a thorough examination of “the broader matrix of rules that serve to produce... Continue Reading
CALGARY – Shaw customers who are fans of the Star Trek series can now catch the more than 600 episodes in newly re-mastered high definition on the cable company's video-on-demand (VOD)... Continue Reading
