VANCOUVER – Rogers Communications and Wavefront, Canada's wireless centre of excellence for commercialization and research, are teaming up a on new centre that helps technology innovators develop products and bring them to market faster.
Called the Rogers Wireless Innovation Centre, the facility will offer innovators the opportunity to learn and connect with the latest global wireless technology, work with key developers, and share their solutions with industry leaders. It is scheduled to open in Vancouver this spring.
The two organizations also announced plans for the Rogers Wavefront Innovation Mentorship program, a national initiative that will pair early-stage wireless technology companies from…
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TORONTO – CTV Toronto has launched an interactive online video platform that it says puts viewers in the heart of its latest news stories.
Shot via iPhone with ‘Dot’ technology from Kogeto, CTV’s 360 View allows viewers to go to its website and immerse themselves in news stories by seeing everything that’s happening from a 360 degree viewpoint. Viewers can choose which viewpoint they want to watch, and then virtually spin around inside by swiping or clicking on the video. (Check out a sample online by clicking here.)
“We’re reinventing storytelling by 360 degrees,” said Paul Rogers, SVP of CTV…
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OTTAWA – Telus says that its proposal for an spectrum cap in the 700 MHz auction is the “fairest” way the federal government can meets its competition agenda and ensure that there are multiple winners outside of the three incumbent wireless players.
In an interview with Cartt.ca, Telus’ senior VP of regulatory and government affairs Michael Hennessy explains that the company has heard, loud and clear, the government’s message that it wants to continue with its competition agenda begun with the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) auction, maximize investment in Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks and ensure that rural Canadians enjoy…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media has named Gavin Roth as vice-president of multiplatform sales, and expanded the role of Mitch Dent, executive vice-president of sales for Rogers TV.
Reporting to Dale Hooper, senior vice-president of sales and marketing, Roth (right) will be responsible for providing strategic account leadership for all of Rogers Media, with a strong focus on developing cross-platform sales initiatives across multiple brands. He assumes the newly created role on January 30.
Prior to joining Rogers Media, Roth was VP of…
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AFTER ITS HIGHEST voter turnout on record, the Ontario chapter of the SCTE has added three new members to its board of directors for the 2012 – 2013 term.
D’Arcy Brown (Rogers) and Joe Caruso (Clearcable Networks) were both named as directors, while Scott McPhail (Telonix) was named secretary. They join current board members Joe Ciccone, Mario Massi and James Myles.
The organization’s bylaws require six board members, elected for two year terms, with three board members replaced each year in order to provide continuity.
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TORONTO – Canadian Women in Communications (CWC) has unveiled their annual award winners for 2012.
Karen Sheriff, president and CEO at Bell Aliant, has been named the CWC Woman Of The Year. This award recognizes an outstanding woman who has made a significant contribution to the communications industry throughout her career, and who has contributed materially to the advancement of women within the industry.
In the category of CWC Employer Excellence Awards, IBM Canada Ltd. was named employer of the year, while Industry Canada has been recognized for sustainability in gender diversity.
The CWC Leadership Excellence Awards celebrate women of achievement who…
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TORONTO – Rogers has launched a new online marketing tool for small and medium businesses to help promote them where consumers are searching for their services.
Called Outrank, the service offers local businesses paid search marketing, search engine optimization, website design, and a performance dashboard where they may monitor results such as website traffic, phone calls, and emails generated from a specific campaign.
"Millions of Canadians are searching online every day for local services and we know that less than 45% of Canadian small businesses have a website," said Outrank general manager Milind Mehere, in Wednesday’s announcement. "We are excited to launch…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media said Tuesday that it is acquiring a 100% stake in Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN) which it will re-launch as Citytv Saskatchewan.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Rogers said that the move allows its Citytv network to expand its footprint in key markets, provide a national platform for its programming, and support SCN’s “historical role of offering educational programming”.
The deal is pending regulatory approval and a decision is expected by spring. The purchase comes less than a month after Rogers announced a program supply agreement with then owner Bluepoint Investments, headed by advertising executive…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has launched a sports-themed barker channel called Sportsnews designed to promote its sports services and content.
Available free to digital cable customers in Ontario and Atlantic Canada on channel 999 in SD and HD, the channel promises timely information on scores, stats, fantasy information and breaking news for sports fans.
One third of the screen will feature a scoreboard, while the rest is made up of the “headline zone” and a Twitter feed from Sportsnet personalities (see screen grab below).
“Sportsnews is the first cable service of its kind in Canada”, said Anthony Antonelli, senior director of sports and…
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LAS VEGAS – Rogers Communications will be one of the first service providers to use Cisco’s Videoscape TV platform to deliver their next-generation video services.
Videoscape, unveiled Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show, brings together digital TV and on-line video content with social media and communications applications. New ‘video in the cloud’ services are billed as new revenue streams for service providers and new video entertainment experiences for consumers.
Cisco said that Videoscape is designed as an open software-based platform that provides a migration path to an all IP-based video infrastructure, with cloud, network and client components working together to allow video…
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