TORONTO – Canadians may soon be able to pay for their groceries or gas up using only their mobile phones and a wireless payment sticker.
The Zoompass Tag, the next step in the evolution of the mobile payment system Zoompass, is a wireless payment device designed in the form of a sticker that can be attached to a mobile phone. It lets consumers simply tap their phones at checkout to make real-time purchases at retail stores such as Tim Hortons, McDonalds, Petro Canada and Loblaws.
By tapping a mobile phone with the Zoompass Tag on a contactless reader at the point-of-sale,…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet has added MMA Buzz to its website, powered by Rogers’ real time web service Thoora.com.
MMA Buzz collects and displays popular mixed martial arts stories based on what is happening within social and traditional media, providing fans with a new way to keep up-to-date.
"The MMA fan is super committed and engaged”, said Rogers’ SVP and GM of digital media, Claude Galipeau, in the announcement. “They blog, they tweet, they shout. MMA Buzz gathers the best-of-the-best in fan conversations, and serves it to one dashboard. Thoora is the perfect platform to power MMA BUZZ, since it’s all…
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OTTAWA – Rogers has received CRTC approval for a new mainstream sports channel.
Programming will include NHL hockey games involving Canadian teams, Major League Baseball games, Union of European Football Associations soccer and other mainstream sports.
In its application submitted last September, Rogers said that the new network will air “programming dedicated to all aspects of sports with an emphasis on mainstream Canadian professional sports”.
The service has proposed to offer over 50% of its programming in high definition format with a view of moving towards 90% by the end of its licence term in August, 2016.
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VANCOUVER – Further analysis of the massive television audience that watched last Sunday’s Olympic gold medal men’s hockey game found that 22 million people – or two thirds of the Canadian population – were watching when Sidney Crosby scored Team Canada’s overtime goal.
The peak audience follows CTV’s earlier announcement that the 16.6 million average audience for the game makes it the most-watched television broadcast in Canadian history. Twenty million viewers were watching the medal ceremony in which Canada received its record 14th gold medal of the Games, peaking at 20.5 million viewers when Crosby was presented with his medal…
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SINCE TENS OF MILLIONS of us tuned in to watch our Canadian skiers, skaters and sliders perform at their best on their biggest stage, the Olympics, wouldn’t we also want to watch our own actors, writers and directors doing the very same thing on their biggest stage, prime time?
The answer is “yes, of course,” if given the chance.
The Olympic broadcast consortium spent multiple millions acquiring the rights to the 2010 Games and then multiple millions more preparing, building the facilities and staffing the place with the best Canada has to offer in terms of broadcasters and broadcasting. The 1,400…
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TORONTO – Following Telus’ lead, Rogers is offering DRM-free (digital rights management) song downloads through its music service.
Visitors to Rogers’ full-track over-the-air music downloads store urMusic can now purchase and download DRM-free (also known as MP3) music tracks to their wireless device or computer, and then transfer them to their other digital music-capable electronic devices, free of charge. Rogers is also offering customers the ability to pre-order albums in advance of their release date.
DRM-free music tracks are priced at $0.69, $0.99 and up to $1.29 per track. Full album purchases generally cost less than $10, plus applicable download…
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TORONTO – Canadian mobile phone users will soon be able to make video calls across competing mobile networks after Rogers, Bell and Telus announced the completion of two-way mobile video calling trials.
Mobile video calling is currently available through several carriers in Canada, but both callers must be on the same carrier’s network using compatible handsets. When inter-carrier mobile video calling is launched video calling will be possible across multiple carrier networks and will create North America’s largest two-way mobile video calling community, say the companies.
"We are proud to be part of the first inter-carrier partnership in North America to…
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TORONTO – Rogers is offering new wireless data roaming packs aimed at customers who are frequent travelers to the U.S.
The new North American One Rate wireless data plans are designed to provide additional cost certainty to customers travelling south of the border, along with the flexibility and convenience to use their device’s data capabilities (e-mail, mobile web surfing, downloading documents) the same way they would while in Canada, without incurring roaming fees when using data within their monthly allotment.
"As Canada’s leading wireless carrier and smart phone leader, we are thrilled to offer even more innovative roaming solutions”, said John Boynton,…
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TORONTO – While an Ontario Superior Court judge on Friday gave Shaw Communications the green light to move ahead with its plan for CanWest Global, other companies have come forward to say, “hey, we would have liked to get in on the bidding, too.”
However, companies which wanted to take a close look at the troubled broadcaster and newspaper publisher had to first sign a non-disclosure agreement which prevented them from even talking to Goldman Sachs, which is the key creditor as the 65% equity holder of CW Media Holdings, the division which owns and operates CanWest’s specialty channels.
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TORONTO – Rogers will purchase for cancellation 4 million of its outstanding Class B non-voting shares for an aggregate purchase price of $125.5 million.
The shares represent approximately 0.83% of the Class B shares outstanding at February 11, 2010. The private purchase was made under an issuer bid exemption order issued by the Ontario Securities Commission.
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