TORONTO – After more than 40 years at CTV, Malcolm Fox will retire as executive producer of W-FIVE effective September 1, 2009.
Fox’s career began in the late 1960s with…
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WINNIPEG – While CHBC TV Kelowna will live on – rebranded from E! to part of the Global TV network – CHEK-TV Victoria and CHCA-TV Red Deer will be…
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MONTREAL – VoiceAge Corp. will create a patent pool for speech compression standards.
The pool of AMR-WB/G.722.2 patents will provide users with convenient, fair, reasonable and non- discriminatory access to…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC will review the structure service rates charged by some of Canada’s biggest telephone companies.
Telus sent an application to the Commission last October asking for it…
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NEW YORK, NY – An affiliate of global private equity franchise MatlinPatterson has made a bid for Nortel’s wireless business worth US $725 million, saying that it would use the division to…
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – Look Communications recorded the largest quarterly profit in its history, due in large part to the sale of its spectrum and broadcast licence to…
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TORONTO – Nortel Networks has shot down Research In Motion (RIM)’s claims that it is being blocked as a potential bidder for the bankrupt telecom’s wireless business.
According to…
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WATERLOO – Research In Motion Limited (RIM) said that it is being held back from bidding on bankrupt Nortel Networks’ wireless business because it has expressed interest in buying…
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TORONTO – Canada’s first mobile payment service is now available for download on the BlackBerry Storm smart phone.
Zoompass, launched last month by mobile commerce company EnStream, offers Canadians a…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC has announced plans to make telecommunications and broadcasting services more accessible to disabled Canadians.
On the telecom side, the CRTC has pledged to:
– require that telephone companies offer…
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