QUEBEC – Telus has purchased Quebec’s KinLogix, a cloud-based electronic medical record (EMR) provider used by some 200 medical clinics in the province. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. It’s the second EMR provider Telus has added following the February 2012 acquisition of Western Canada's Wolf Medical Systems.
The KinLogix EMR is a cloud-based solution used in medical clinics that captures, organizes, and displays critical patient data in one integrated patient record, while streamlining administrative tasks, improving care delivery and patient-physician relations.
Telus says the acquisition furthers its efforts to accelerate the adoption of EMR solutions to “continue to…
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VANCOUVER – Why channel surf, when you can channel swipe or tap? Telus has launched its Optik Smart Remote app that turns your iPhone or iPad into the “ultimate” TV control.
Optik Smart Remote enables customers to surf through all their content choices on their iPhone, iPad or iPod instead of the onscreen TV guide. The guide utilizes filters to display only what you’re looking to find and by linking your mobile device with your digital set top box, you can use swipes on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to change the channel.
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OTTAWA – An invitational summit of prominent decision-makers from Canada and France will gather in Ottawa to discuss how policy makers can grow local content industries in the face of increasing digital disruption. The summit, from November 14-16, is being organized by The Embassy of France in Canada and the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC).
Approximately 70 individuals representing key organizations from France and Canada have been invited to engage in a discussion of content issues. Topic areas include new technology-enabled consumer behaviour, changing business models and new opportunities, and the evolution of public policy…
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GATINEAU – Watch the CRTC’s web site today as the Commission plans to open a new public process aimed at creating a code of conduct to govern the contracts consumers sign for various wireless devices and services, Cartt.ca has learned.
Urged on by many inside the industry (led by Telus) and outside of it, the CRTC in April asked for comments on whether the wireless market in Canada warranted its intervention in the development of a national retail wireless services consumer code.
Fuelled by voter backlash, a number of provinces have introduced their own…
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VANCOUVER – Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co is backing Telus’ shareholder consolidation plan as its ongoing dispute with U.S. hedge fund Mason Capital Management drags on ahead of an October 17th meeting where investors will vote on the proposal.
In Telus’ most recent news release, it says Glass Lewis & Co is recommending that its institutional investor clients vote in favour of the telecom’s proposal to exchange its non-voting shares into common shares on a one-for-one basis. This follows a similar recommendation made last week from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), another proxy advisory firm.
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VANCOUVER – Telus has invested an additional $7.3 million to bring 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE ) wireless service to Prince George, Kamloops and the Thompson Okanagan communities of Vernon, Armstrong, and Enderby. It’s also expanding the network across the communities of south central Vancouver Island and Greater Victoria including: Nanaimo, Duncan, Parksville, North Saanich, Metchosin, Colwood, Sydney, Mill Bay, Cobble Hill, Chemainus, Crofton, Ladysmith, Lantzville and Gabriola Island.
Additional B.C. communities, including several in the Thompson Okanagan region, will be getting access to 4G LTE in the coming months says Telus as it brings the…
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WHILE CONCEDING THAT THE various accusations and complaints levelled against it over the past weeks and months show a high level of “competitive and financial tension” evident in the Canadian TV business nowadays, Bell Canada told the CRTC Friday that this tension should not impact the approval of its purchase of Astral Media.
In its final written reply to the CRTC hearing into the purchase, Bell Canada insisted its decision to buy Astral Media and all of its radio stations, TV properties and other assets is in the public interest and that only by owning the…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC has told Canada’s wireless companies that their collective inaction when it comes to the loss or theft of customer handsets – and the personal data those mobiles contain – will not be tolerated.
Back in the summer, the Commission sent a letter to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association asking what the group and its members (which include all Canadian wireless carriers, big and small) are doing to keep track of lost or stolen mobile phones and help their customers who are impacted. In most other jurisdictions around the world, a central database has been created so…
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BRANDON – 4G wireless service is now available in Brandon as part of Telus’ $7 million capital investment to further expand and enhance its wireless service in Manitoba in 2012.
The new wireless coverage brings 4G speeds to Brandon and the surrounding communities including Carberry, Austin and MacGregor. Manitoba's 4G coverage is also available in and around Winnipeg, Highway 59 from Winnipeg to Victoria Beach, and Highway 1 from Winnipeg…
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VANCOUVER – Telus says it continues to receive the backing of proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) in its ongoing battle fight with U.S. hedge fund Mason Capital. Over the weekend Mason issued a news release that claimed the ISS had reversed its previous position and was no longer in favour of Telus’ share consolidation plan.
“The ISS report recognizes – and agrees with – Mason’s core arguments: that the voting shares are of greater value than the non-voting shares, and that Telus’ proposed one-for-one exchange ratio dilutes voting shareholders’ voting rights and…
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