TORONTO – Wireless technology customers are ready to move beyond voice and text messaging applications to an increasingly more sophisticated mobile user experience. That was a key message delivered by several speakers at the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) “Work.Live.Play.” conference, held this week in Toronto.
Whereas text messaging was viewed as the lowest common denominator, from a technology perspective, to attract mobile consumers two to three years ago, today’s wireless customers desire a much richer user experience, said Dean Tseretopoulos, vice-president of interactive mobile solutions at MyThum Interactive during a panel discussion.
Toronto-based MyThum Interactive…
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TORONTO – Mandarin Chinese channel ET Global has been added to the Rogers Cable channel lineup.
The general entertainment channel features programs such as the ETTV U.S. news, the "ET Worldwide" call-in program, a popular celebrity talk show about fortune tellers, made for television dramas and an English-language learning series.
It’s available in a free preview until June 15 and is $19.95 a month after that. Rogers now offers 45 ethnic channels in over 20 different languages.
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ST. JOHN’S – License this month. Launch next month.
Eastern telco Aliant today announced the launch of Aliant TV in St. John’s, NL. The IP-delivered digital TV option features over 150 video channels and 70 audio and will be available to customers in selected areas of St. John’s, Mount Pearl and Paradise – who can sign up now with installs to begin in late June and continuing throughout the year.
Aliant has offered terrestrial digital TV in parts of Halifax for almost a year and this is the first move outside Nova Scotia. As reported by cartt.ca last…
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SUDBURY – The Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada presented its Central Canadian awards at the Regional Professional Development Seminar in Sudbury Saturday evening.
The 2005 TELEVISION winners are:
Bert Cannings Award – Best Newscast
* A-Channel London for Lynda Shaw’s Killer – (Medium Market) * CTV Montreal for CTV NEWS AT 6 The December 16 Blizzard – (Large Market)
Charlie Edwards Award – Spot News
* Global News – Ontario for Man on Fire * CTV Toronto for The Boxing Day Shootings – (Honourable Mention)
Dan McArthur Award – In-depth/Investigative
* City TV in Toronto for Fabry’s Drug…
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TORONTO – On Wednesday, Toronto’s 98.1 CHFI helped to raise over $700,000 to support shelters for abused women, and to help stop violence before it starts.
In conjunction with Winners/HomeSense, CHFI took part in "Shelter from the Storm" – a fundraising campaign that included a 13-hour CHFI Radiothon from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Morning show hosts Erin Davis and Mike Cooper were broadcasting live throughout the day from Winners College Park, raising funds for the Canadian Women’s Foundation and bringing attention to the subject of violence against women.
The broadcast featured survivors’ stories, experts and celebrity guests. Matt…
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TORONTO – Much of the Rogers Communications technical staff found out for sure today that they will be the ones filling the company’s new building in Brampton.
In October of 2005, Rogers paid Nortel $100 million for the telecom gear manufacturer’s one-million-square-foot former headquarters. Brampton, a city just north of Mississauga, is actually the town where Ted Rogers got his start in cable.
So far, about 300 Rogers IT staffers are already working there, but 3,400 more from network technology, IT and call centre staff will be moving there in the coming months. No existing Rogers offices will be shuttered, but some former Sprint…
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ALVISO, Calif. – PVR creator and manufacturer TiVo expanded its boxes’ capabilities this week with the addition of an ad search service and the ability to bring downloaded web video to the TV set.
‘TiVo Product Watch’ offers advertisers a new way to reach TiVo subscribers (PVR/DVR users are notorious linear TV ad-skippers but are also voracious searchers) who are actively looking for products with advertising content and information. At launch, TiVo Product Watch will deliver targeted, relevant advertising content, from more than 70 advertisers and 100 leading brands, from up to five different product categories including Automotive, Entertainment,…
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TORONTO – Mobile production and transmission service company Dome Productions recently rolled Trillium out of the garage, its third high definition multi-format mobile production truck.
All three of the company’s HD trucks were designed and integrated in house by Dome Engineering for spring launches in each of the last three years (Majestic in March 2004, Horizon in May 2005 and Trillium in April 2006).
"These successive launches have allowed us to fine-tune and adapt design, equipment and efficiencies based on experiences with preceding trucks and the changing needs of clients and new markets," says Mary Ellen Carlyle, senior vice-president and…
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TORONTO – Rogers Wireless has integrated the technology of another Canadian company, Virtual Reach, into the service package available to its customers.
On Wednesday, the two companies announced the launch of Rogers Newsclip, an application used for accessing Internet based data, content and related media from mobile devices and phones using RSS technology.
With Rogers Newsclip, Rogers Wireless customers, roaming in Canada and in over 80 countries, will now have mobile access to Internet content and media without having to use a mobile browser. It will feature a vast array of topics including business news, stock quotes, technology blogs,…
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SAN ANTONIO – U.S. telco AT&T and wireless video provider MobiTV announced an agreement this week to deliver mobile television content across AT&T’s nationwide Wi-Fi network.
The service will enable AT&T customers to view live television on their laptops or other devices while connected to one of AT&T’s Wi-Fi hot spots.
The MobiTV service on AT&T (formerly SBC) includes 15 channels spanning national news, sports, entertainment and full-length music videos from top artists. The deal helps further enhance one of the nation’s largest Wi-Fi networks by offering differentiated broadband-enabled content that consumers are increasingly demanding, say the two companies….
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