AMAZON, APPLE, GOOGLE, and the Zigbee Alliance this week announced a new working group which will work towards developing and promoting the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard.
Zigbee Alliance board member companies such as IKEA, Legrand, NXP Semiconductors, Resideo, Samsung SmartThings, Schneider Electric, Signify (formerly Philips Lighting), Silicon Labs, Somfy, and Wulian are also onboard to join the working group and contribute to the project, said the press release announcing the alliance.
The goal of the Connected Home over IP project is to simplify development for manufacturers and increase compatibility for consumers – since each smart device made by…
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No surprises in the documents
By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – As expected, Rogers, Shaw, Vidéotron, Cogeco and Eastlink have filed an official Review & Vary application with the CRTC, requesting changes to Telecom decision 2019-288—the final rates for aggregated wholesale high-speed access services (HSA).
The themes are similar to what was filed with their appeals to the courts and to federal cabinet.
The cable carriers focused on “new facts and circumstances and on errors of fact and principle” that questions how the Commission arrived at its much-delayed decision.
“The Commission has announced an imminent review of its approach to setting…
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OTTAWA — The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) announced the first speakers lined up for the Prime Time 2020 conference to be held January 29-31 in Ottawa.
The speakers who have been announced include:
Soumya Sriraman — Founding President & CEO, BritBox
Craig Engler — General Manager, Shudder
Catherine Tait — President & CEO, CBC/Radio-Canada
Amal Baggar — Vice-President, Scripted Programming, NBCUniversal International Studios
Madeline Buxton — Culture & Trends Manager, YouTube
Nataline Rodrigues — Director of Original Programming, Rogers Media
Christa Dickenson — Executive Director, Telefilm Canada
Andrew Peterson — Head of Content Partnerships, Canada, YouTube
Valerie Creighton —…
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VANCOUVER — Film and TV production company Network Entertainment announced its co-produced The Age of A.I. series, hosted by Robert Downey Jr., will launch December 18 on YouTube’s Learning channel.
The new eight-episode series takes a deep dive into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence, with Robert Downey Jr. bringing his irreverent enthusiasm and curiosity to the screen as the YouTube Originals series takes an immersive look at AI and its potential to change the world.
In each episode, viewers will meet the people on the front lines of AI — the scientists, innovators and dreamers who are shaping the future…
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CREATING IS SOMETHING WOMEN are known to do very well.
I have a few examples:
Alice Parker invented central heating in 1919
Josephine Cochrane invented the dishwasher in 1887
Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903
Mary Wilcox invented the car heater in 1893
Women invented the chocolate chip cookie, Monopoly, the fire escape, the life raft and beer!
In 1941 Hedy Lamar invented the torpedo guidance system – cutting edge technology that helped win the war for the Alies and laid the foundation for todays Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Women ahead of the curve? Always!
In 2003, when I was in Halifax in prep on the…
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GATINEAU – As we’ve reported, one of the outcomes of the Let’s Talk TV process was the creation of a national ratings service to include set top box viewership data from all major TV carriers – which was enshrined in the conditions of licence for large BDUs.
However, with Videotron’s status still unclear since it abandoned the process earlier this year despite its condititions of licence requiring it to take part (the Commission has since turned down its request to pull out and the Federal Court has refused to hear…
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THE CONTINUED ASCENT of Netflix, followed by new online rivals like Disney+, Comcast's Peacock and Apple TV+ – each brimming with original programming to woo new subscribers – threatens to replace the great unbundling of cable TV with the great rebundling of streaming services.
That's the warning of U.S. cable pioneer and top industry strategist John Malone (right), who told his Liberty Media (he’s chairman) investor day last week there's a big downside to simplifying online TV subscription sign-ups by packaging streaming services together.
"This is frankly the mistake that the cable industry made over the years, of agreeing to save…
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ISED arm twists itself into knots trying to give MVNO its stamp of approval, but this could be a good compromise
IF I’M RUNNING ONE of Canada’s existing wireless companies, I’m relieved after reading the Competition Bureau’s most recent submission to the CRTC’s Wireless Policy Review.
However, if I’m hoping to launch a new mobile virtual network operator once the CRTC updates said policy, I might be crying into my beer a little.
After a summer of regulatory back-and-forth where the Bureau successfully fought hard for access to confidential information that only the companies themselves and…
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CEO hopes Ottawa is watching, listening, and will act
CORUS ENTERTAINMENT PRESIDENT and CEO Doug Murphy may have the toughest job in Canadian media. Or maybe just the least-appreciated.
Go ahead and ask anyone in the TV business (and we’ve asked a lot of them recently). They all say variations of the same thing: “I think he’s doing all he can… but I’d never want his job…”
Not only does Murphy run the biggest independent media company and broadcaster in the country (yes, it’s controlled by the Shaw family – who unloaded their equity interest in May after…
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OTTAWA – CTV Toronto’s September broadcast of cellphone footage of a stabbing incident, in the absence of any prior warning to viewers, constituted breaches of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Violence Code and the Radio Television Digital News Association of Canada’s (RTDNA) Code of Journalistic Ethics, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) announced today.
During a news story broadcast during the CTV News at 6 newscast, anchor Ken Shaw explained a man in Kingston had stabbed several victims earlier that day, resulting in the death of one victim. The perpetrator himself had also died after stabbing himself.
The video footage…
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