TORONTO – Rogers has had about a year and a half to tweak its NextBox cable/whole home PVR offering since it was first made available to subscribers in 2012. Today, it unveiled its predecessor – NextBox 3.0 – which allows up to eight HD programs to be recorded at one time and has enough storage for 240 hours of HD shows and movies.
Available to customers in Ontario, NextBox 3.0 also includes a three-minute “skip tool” and slow-motion playback, caller ID on your TV, a localized weather app and an augmented selection of movies and…
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TORONTO – Claude Galipeau has been named country manager for Yahoo Canada, the company announced late Friday.
Galipeau will be responsible for sales and operations for Yahoo Canada and will be based in Toronto.
Regarded as a digital media industry veteran, Galipeau most recently headed his own consulting firm, Galipeau Group. He was also COO at Syncapse Corp., a social media management company.
Prior to that Galipeau was SVP and GM of digital media at Rogers before departing abruptly in February 2011.
Galipeau has also held management positions at Astral Media, Alliance Atlantis…
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IT WOULD SEEM THAT THE all-hands on deck round of public pleading from our big wireless companies will not shake our meddlesome federal government from its wireless policy path. After all, there are no votes in it for Ottawa to alter course – and potentially big, big money in simply plowing ahead.
As everyone knows, the most recent Canadian spectrum auction in 2008 brought five new wireless companies to life in Wind Mobile, Public Mobile, Mobilicity, Videotron Wireless and EastLink Wireless. Regulatory intervention set aside some spectrum then which was purchased more cheaply than that which…
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TORONTO – Motorola’s new Moto X smartphone, launched today, is its first new significant product since being acquired by Google.
Available in Canada exclusively through Rogers, the new Moto X features a number of new innovations, including a unique curved back design, touch-free voice activation and a 10 megapixel camera that’s ready to go with two flicks of your wrist.
The Motorola Connect extension for Google Chrome lets users you see and respond to notifications and…
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TORONTO, MONTREAL, and VANCOUVER – Industry Minister James Moore made it official yesterday that Ottawa was not going to budge on its wireless policy framework, but that hasn’t put an end to the public lobbying campaign mounted by Canada’s Big Three incumbents, who issued new pleas today calling on the federal government to close what they say are loopholes that give preferential treatment to major US wireless carriers.
Bell, Rogers, and Telus each issued press releases Thursday urging Ottawa to reconsider the wireless rules that currently would allow a U.S. carrier like…
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OTTAWA – Saying the Minister of Industry has no right to change the policies governing the 2008 Advanced Wireless Spectrum auction now, Telus has filed an application in Federal Court asking for a judicial review of the June 28th spectrum transfer policy framework released by then-Industry Minister Christian Paradis.
(We predicted such a legal backlash in April when Industry Canada told the Canadian wireless companies then that it wanted to add new restrictions on the sale of wireless spectrum that had been cleared to be sold after a…
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TORONTO – Rogers-owned Sportsnet is gearing up to bring fans multiplatform coverage of the men’s and women’s first three rounds and quarterfinals of the 2013 Rogers Cup from both Toronto and Montreal.
From August 5 to 9, coverage of the Rogers cup will be available on Sportsnet, sportsnet.ca, Sportsnet 590 The FAN and Rogers Anyplace TV on computer, mobile and tablet.
The top 40 men and 32 of the top 35 women will compete at the tennis tournaments. The men’s tournament in Montreal will feature current world No. 1 and defending Rogers Cup champion Novak…
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OTTAWA – A non-partisan group made up of 150 CEOs from Canada’s leading companies is appealing to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to makes changes to federal telecommunications policy to ensure it does not discriminate against Canadian companies and unduly favour foreign wireless carriers.
In a letter sent Friday by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, council president John Manley (who is also a Telus board member) called on the PM to consider levelling the wireless playing field by amending policy to grant Canadian incumbents the same access to bid on wireless spectrum as it…
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MONTREAL – Construction is underway at Rogers-owned TV station CJNT of a new production facility that will be the new home of Citytv Montreal’s Breakfast Television morning show that is set to premiere at the end of August.
The new facility, located in downtown Montreal, will produce a daily BT morning show and a weekly Sportsnet update show that covers significant events for the Montreal market.
Rogers acquired the former Metro 14 station last year and received CRTC approval to rebrand the station as Citytv Montreal. The new BT and Sportsnet shows make up the 15.5 hours of local programming…
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PETERBOROUGH, ON – Capella Telecommunications recently announced it has been named the Canadian distributor for InnoTrans Communications’ products and solutions.
“Capella has a history of introducing leading edge equipment to the Canadian marketplace and is pleased to continue this history with InnoTrans. We believe the compelling technical performance offered by InnoTrans coupled with Capella’s strong technical expertise will offer great value to Canadian operators in this highly competitive time in our industry” said Capella Telecommunications president Norm Slater in a release.
InnoTrans, based in San Jose, Calif., says it has revolutionized node splitting and fiber…
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