MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – As if the voice market wasn’t crowded or confusing enough, Google Inc. yesterday launched Google Talk, a downloadable Windows application that enables its Gmail users to quickly and easily talk or IM with their friends for free.
Google Talk is not voice in the way that carriers such as Bell or Rogers or Shaw or Cogeco or Primus offer it. Those carriers offer voice service the way most people use it – on the phone. Google Talk is chatting via computer
"Google Talk further enriches our users’ communications experience, whether they choose to communicate via…
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TORONTO – Geoff Poulton was introduced today as vice-president and general manager of Rogers OMNI TV Manitoba effective immediately.
OMNI TV Manitoba is the newly branded, newly licensed, yet-to-be-launched television station resulting from Rogers’ purchase of NOW TV and the subsequent approval by the CRTC (Public Notion 2005-207), as reported by www.cartt.ca. OMNI TV Manitoba is scheduled to launch Monday November 14th, 2005.
"We are pleased to have Geoff Poulton (right) leading the newest addition to the OMNI Television family," said Rogers Media Television’s CEO Leslie Sole, in…
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BURNABY, B.C. – Glentel Inc. has announced that WirelessWave, its retail division, will open five more stores within the next 60 days in Ontario
That will bring the chain’s total to 95 mall-based stores.
The new WirelessWaves will open in Jackson Square, Hamilton; Bayshore Shopping Centre, Ottawa; St. Laurent Mall, Ottawa; New Fairview Centre, St. Catherine’s; and Station Mall, Sault St. Marie.
With its recently acquired 49 Telephone Booth/La Cabine Téléphonique mall-based stores in Québec, Ontario and Alberta, Glentel now operates 144 mall stores in five provinces, featuring the wireless products and services of Bell Mobility, Fido, and Rogers…
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TORONTO – Corus Radio Toronto today announced the appointment of Gord Harris as program director at AM 640 Toronto.
Harris was most recently PD at Corus stations AM 980 and The Hawk in London. A veteran in the industry, he operated a private radio consulting business in the early 1990s and has worked with Broadcast News, WIC, Rogers, Standard and CHUM (including 680News and CFRB).
His educational background spans the fields of economics, political science, law and film, and he currently teaches journalism courses at Fanshawe College and the University of Western Ontario.
Harris replaces Scott Armstrong who was…
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TORONTO – With a company-wide push to emerge from its distant second-place spot in the TV ratings, Canadians will see Global Television get creative when marketing its fall programming this month and through the fall.
“We’re trying to kick things up a notch,” Walter Levitt, senior vice-president, marketing for CanWest MediaWorks, told www.cartt.ca on Monday. “We’re looking for new and inventive ways to make sure we’re in the minds and hearts of people.”
Viewers will have already seen the push behind new Fox program Prison Break, which Global is simulcasting – and which launches August 29th. It’s followed in…
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TORONTO – Technology Cancon will begin airing south of the border this fall on G4techTV. Call for Help, the first Canadian-produced G4techTV Canada television production, will be back into the homes of American fans in September on G4, the national cable and satellite network available in 53 million homes in the United States.
Call for Help airs at 6 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. PT weeknights on G4techTV Canada (which is owned jointly by Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications and operated by Rogers in Toronto).
This is the second international…
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OTTAWA – A number of Canada’s leading information technology companies (Rogers and Bell, for example) have united to urge the government to modernize the Telecommunications Act in order to promote the government’s entire agenda of competition, investment and commercialization.
The urging comes in a submission to the federal government’s Telecom Policy Review (TRP) delivered by the CATA-CAIP TelecomACT Working Group, a high-level panel drawn from the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP), and its parent organization, the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA). Industry members included: MTS Allstream, Bell, Ericsson, MCI, Nakina Systems, Rogers, Telesat, Telus, Eagle.ca, AOL, Orbit.com, NetIdea.,…
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SAINT JOHN – Aliant recently announced two new initiatives in partnership with the Aliant Pioneer Volunteers to make back-to-school easier for children in need.
The BCE-owned eastern telco (serving New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland & Labrador) will make a $10 donation from every sale made under the Personal Computer (PC) Purchase Program and buy all backpacks for the Pioneer’s Backpacks for Kids program.
Also, to provide an opportunity for the general public to contribute, Aliant has organized a school supply drive across Atlantic Canada through its dealer locations. The Backpacks for Kids program provides backpacks…
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OTTAWA – Newly re-branded A-Channel Ottawa will air 20 Ottawa Senators games this National Hockey League season anniounced the hockey club and the station today.
2005-06 season schedule will see the CHUM channel air all 19 of the club’s Thursday evening games.
The 20-game package marks the fifth consecutive season the Senators are back with the station, which changed identification from The New RO to A-Channel this month.
Of the schedule, 13 games are home games from the Corel Centre. In addition, Rogers Sportsnet will simulcast a majority of A-Channel games in their East region, enabling those outside A-Channel’s…
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MONTREAL – Videotron is adding telephony customers as fast as it can keep up and the company announced today that it is rolling out its residential cable telephone service in Montreal.
Consumer response to Videotron’s new product has been strong and as of August 12, six months after the service was launched, more than 62,500 customers in Laval, the South Shore, the West Island and the Quebec City area had made the switch.
Those numbers make Videotron the leader among telecom companies in Canada that provide telephone service via IP (Internet Protocol) technology, but early reports out of Shaw,…
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