TORONTO – Yesterday, Rogers forecast more growth in its wireless applications and services. Today, it’s showing what it means.
Rogers Wireless announced the availability of the Sales Anywhere software for the Salesforce.com service, to allow sales professionals to access client databases remotely on a mobile device. Subscribers can use their Windows Mobile, Palm OS, or BlackBerry-enabled devices to access their customer relationship management software when roaming in more than 80 countries.
It will be offered as a subscription for $25 a month after a free 30-day trial.
“As Canada’s leading wireless carrier, Rogers understands that its business customers’ time…
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WHILE THE WORD CONVERGENCE is still a four-letter word to some, Rogers Media president Tony Viner sits on the axis of convergence in the Rogers Empire.
His division, which includes the Toronto Blue Jays, radio, magazines, TV and other media is a large supplier of content to the company’s other two huge divisions: cable and wireless. While all at NAB this week fret about producing for multiple platforms, hitting all the screens has been in the Rogers plan for some time, with the media division providing the content. Rogers Media president Tony Viner (left) recently chatted with…
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LAS VEGAS – A pair of sessions today, one led by an Intel executive on Viiv, the other by a Microsoft TV honcho on IPTV shone some light on where technology is taking broadcast TV – and not five or 10 years down the road, but this year.
Kevin Corbett, vice-president of Intel’s digital home group concentrated on outlining the company’s new Viiv chipset (no surprise there). Viiv’s capability is to bring the content available on the PC to the TV – and vice versa – and also to be able to move content onto mobile devices and to…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications Inc. reported strong first quarter 2006 results, posting revenues of $2.0 billion, up 28.4% from the previous quarter.
Operating revenue rose in all three units, increasing 53.2% at Rogers Cable (which includes cable, Internet, and VoIP), 20.1% at Rogers Wireless, and 9.5% at Rogers Media. RCI’s operating profit rose 25.5% (year over year) to nearly $600 million for the three months ended Mar. 31, 2006.
Its subscriber base continued net growth that quarter, adding 89,600 wireless voice and data subscribers, 48,700 cable telephony subscribers, 11,400 circuit-switched telephony customers, 50,000 digital cable subscribers, and 40,300 residential…
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OTTAWA – Hustler TV operator Ten Broadcasting announced today that its Red Light District TV channel will be available across Canada on April 27th.
The channel is available with Hustler TV via Cancom and on the HITS QT platform.
Until now, Red Light had only been available on the Rogers cable network and has been available as a VOD product in cable systems across the U.S. or as individual programs on some U.S. satellite distributed channels. Red Light District has been the world’s top selling adult studio since 2001, says the company.
"We will now be able to offer…
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TORONTO – Corus Radio’s AM640 Toronto announced on Friday that it has added veteran talk show host Arlene Bynon to its stable of personalities.
She will make her debut in the next few weeks when her program schedule is formally announced.
Most recently a weekend talk show host with CFRB Radio, Bynon has also had a number of TV gigs and is a host on ichannel. She also worked on air for CHFI and was once vice-president of current affairs programming for Rogers Broadcasting.
Canadian TV viewers across the country will know her as the host and producer of the…
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ATLANTA – Over 15,500 delegates visited Atlanta for the 2006 NCTA National Show, to take in sessions and visit 360 exhibiting companies.
Here’s more of what we heard and saw on the floor of the Georgia World Congress Centre.
*** Sprint/Nextel will be field testing a quad play wireless service with Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks in 2007. More MSO partners are expected to come on board the cellular/WiFi/cable data solution, said Sprint president John Garcia, during a session.
*** With Time Warner Cable abandoning the S-A "Sara" guide in favor of its own,…
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OTTAWA – Mobile phone customers will not see the video available on their phone screens impacted by regulation, the CRTC announced this morning.
The Commission determined that the services provided by Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless and Telus Mobility, in conjunction with MobiTV Inc., fall within the Commission’s New Media Exemption Order, which applies to services that are delivered and accessed over the Internet.
The Commission also determined that mobile television services, whether or not they are delivered and accessed over the Internet, should also be exempt from regulation, and issued a public notice asking for the input of Canadians…
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WHAT IS EVERYONE TALKING about at the National Show in Atlanta?
Same thing as last year, switched digital video, only now, it’s being deployed. A number of U.S. systems have begun rolling it out and Canadian companies – led by Rogers – are looking towards 2007 for its rollout.
So, if switched digital is in deployment mode, it loses its status as the next big thing. So what is the next big thing? Channel bonding developments sure seem to be
In the meantime, here are a few things we saw on the floor of the show: It’s…
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ATLANTA – The jab in the headline was meant as a compliment – and directed towards Rogers Cable chief technology officer Dermott O’Carroll.
During a technical session this morning at the National Cable Telecommunications Association annual gathering featuring O’Carroll (facing camera) and the CTOs of Comcast, Cox and Time Warner Cable, session moderator focused on "what’s now, what’s new and what’s next."
When the discussion turned on what the convergence of wireless and cable might be able to do from a practical standpoint, and Time Warner’s Mike LaJoie mentioned security, such as using a broadband connection and a web…
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