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Eastlink unveils video streaming app
Media | 03/26/2024 5:34 pm EDT
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced Tuesday that it is introducing a video streaming application for its mobile users. The TiVo Stream mobile app will permit customers to watch programming on the go.
"We're on a mission to do things differently," Eastlink CEO...
OPC supports PIAC call for CRTC to clarify rules for tracing apps
telecom | 12/01/2020 5:48 pm EST
While it believes the CRTC's existing definition of "customer confidential information" is broad enough to protect the use of the IP addresses and phone numbers of those using...
Alberta tracing app review could ‘inspire confidence’: privacy expert
telecom | 07/14/2020 6:20 pm EDT
In its long-awaited privacy review of ABTraceTogether, Alberta's COVID-19...
Privacy commissioner hasn’t approved new gov’t contact tracing app
telecom | 06/18/2020 3:48 pm EDT
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal...
Pump the brakes on COVID data tracking, advocacy groups warn
telecom | 04/15/2020 5:35 pm EDT
Despite the extraordinary desire to stop the spread of COVID-19, there is still no justification for mass unwarranted surveillance of identifiable people, according to a joint statement of principles...
Canadian authorities in talks about COVID-19 tracking apps
telecom | 03/31/2020 5:54 pm EDT
Several of Canada’s cities and provinces, as well as the federal...
Telus Health ‘scaling up’ as COVID-19 spreads
telecom | 03/30/2020 5:11 pm EDT
Telus Corp.’s years-long investment in e-health and telemedicine has found itself rapidly expanding as the COVID-19 pandemic forces Canadians to seek medical help without physically visiting doctor’s offices, with downloads of its Babylon Telehealth app increasing six...
iHeartRadio files for bankruptcy in U.S.
Media | 03/15/2018 5:17 pm EDT
The owner of iHeartRadio Media Inc., the company that aggregates radio content through its app, has filed...
Judge upholds injunction against Kodi add-on host
Media | 02/21/2018 5:22 pm EST
The Federal Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a number of telecoms in their case against the man behind TV AddOns. Last June, a civil search warrant was carried out at a property connected to Adam Lackman following a June...
Bell’s Snackable TV officially on the menu
Media | 02/05/2018 5:58 pm EST
BCE Inc.’s Bell Media has officially launched a free, ad-supported mobile app featuring video content...
Telus launches health app for infants
telecom | 01/26/2018 5:28 pm EST
Telus Corp. has a new Telus Health product that promises parents a way to track the health of their baby...
OPC formally investigating Uber after data breach
telecom | 12/11/2017 4:34 pm EST
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has confirmed in an email that the privacy...
Radio app iHeartRadio grows number of stations
Media | 12/04/2017 1:36 pm EST
A partnership between BCE Inc. and iHeartMedia Inc., iHeartRadio Canada announced Monday an update to its...
Government launches Smart Cities challenge in select cities
telecom | 11/24/2017 2:17 pm EST
The federal government officially kicked off its Smart Cities Challenge...
OPC looking into Uber data breach
telecom | 11/22/2017 4:08 pm EST
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has requested a written breach report from...
CFO Tom Hearne leaving theScore
Media | 11/14/2017 3:08 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc.’s theScore announced Tuesday that chief financial officer Tom Hearne is departing the organization, effective early next year.
“Tom has been a valued member of our management team for the past nine years and has played a key role in the development and growth of theScore," theScore chairman and CEO John Levy said in a press release. "On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Tom for his contribution and wish him the best of success in the future."
Levy’s departure from the sports...
Privacy sweep finds issues with some educational apps: OPC
telecom | 10/24/2017 4:35 pm EDT
Some applications used by children in the classroom didn’t receive top...
Amazon adds Alexa to music app
Media | 09/26/2017 1:22 pm EDT
Amazon.com Inc. is making its voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant Alexa available on its...
CRTC role is to ‘regulate in the public interest’: new chairman
Media | 09/08/2017 11:55 am EDT
CRTC chairman Ian Scott has released his first statement since taking the...
Bell introducing ‘advanced’ text messaging
telecom | 08/30/2017 3:37 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is launching an integrated advanced messaging function that...
RBC launching AI-based banking through app
Media | 08/28/2017 4:54 pm EDT
RBC said Monday it plans to add artificial intelligence (AI) technology to its mobile banking app.
It said it would introduce two digital services that "offer actual insights about our client's financials and a fully-automated savings solution that uses predictive...
Stingray Music hits 2M downloads
Media | 07/24/2017 3:38 pm EDT
Stingray Digital Group Inc. said Monday its mobile music-streaming application has surpassed the...
Mobile banking use up to 43%: J.D. Power
telecom | 07/13/2017 3:47 pm EDT
Canadians’ use of smartphones for banking activities has nearly doubled over the past three years, according to a new report by J.D. Power. The Canadian Retail Banking Satisfaction Study, released Thursday, found that mobile...
Interactive Ontario makes changes to board, staff
Media | 06/22/2017 3:20 pm EDT
Interactive Ontario has added three new directors to its board, the industry trade association said in a press release Wednesday. Joining the board are Sean Skelton, a software engineer at Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Emma...
Blue Ant buys Racat in int’l expansion move
Media | 05/24/2017 4:17 pm EDT
Blue Ant Media Inc. has acquired Racat Group, with international assets that include production houses and mobile game developers. As part of the deal, announced Wednesday, Blue Ant gets Racat’s New Zealand-based natural...
Telus, B.C. pledge $2M to connect youth in government care
telecom | 04/05/2017 9:33 pm EDT
Telus Corp. and the government of British Columbia are committing $2 million to offer subsidized smartphones to up to 1,000 youth who are currently, or were previously, in government care. The...
Canada’s VR industry is nascent, but set for growth
Media | 03/31/2017 8:57 pm EDT
Though virtual reality is still in its early days, it holds promise for Canada’s media industry — including for broadcasters as a new way to draw eyes to live events, such as sports, according to...
Mixed reaction to budget viewed as long on potential, short on details
Media | 03/23/2017 9:37 pm EDT
For all the focus on the digital economy, there was little in Wednesday’s budget for digital content creators, broadband infrastructure enthusiasts or fans of long-term planning, according to...
Hub for Canadian radio launches
Media | 03/01/2017 5:31 pm EST
More than 400 Canadian radio stations across the country are now available on a newly launched app featuring both public and private broadcasters. The free Radioplayer app launched Wednesday “gives radio listeners...
Iristel, EBox, DHX among new lobby registrations
Media | 02/21/2017 9:54 pm EST
The start of the new year was marked by new registrations for new and not-so-new companies and groups in the federal lobbyists’ registry. Iristel Inc. registered to lobby the federal government as of Jan. 13 with consultant Eric Rothschild, who, according to the registry filing “will discuss with CRTC staff & Commissioners and staff at Innovation, Science and Economic Development potential funding available for telecommunications infrastructure.” Rothschild will also be speaking to the CRTC about “telecommunications services and policy...
Ontario interactive media companies set to expand: report
Media | 02/15/2017 8:22 pm EST
Interactive digital media companies in Ontario are set for “significant growth” within the next two years, according to a report commissioned by industry trade association Interactive...
5G to make up 0.2% of connections by 2021: Cisco
telecom | 02/08/2017 8:01 pm EST
Despite a projected 1,000-per-cent increase in 5G connections between 2020 and 2021, less than half a per cent of all devices and connections will have 5G capability in that same time period, according to a new Cisco Systems Inc....
Build voice and data support at same time in NG911 system: Freedom
Media | 01/19/2017 11:22 pm EST
GATINEAU, Que. — There are unique considerations for wireless carriers when contemplating the switch to next-generation 911 (NG911) services, a CRTC panel was told on the penultimate day of a...
Bell offering IBM enterprise apps
Media | 01/17/2017 11:03 pm EST
BCE Inc.’s business customers now have access to IBM Corp.’s MobileFirst enterprise apps for devices running on Apple Inc.’s iOS operating system. “Bell will combine its expertise in...
Canadians don’t want CanCon funding passed down to subscribers: report
Media | 01/13/2017 7:06 pm EST
A report prepared for the Privy Council Office found Canadians were generally in favour of increasing contributions to Canadian content, but don’t believe those increases should be passed down to customers. Focus group participants were given four options — making telecom companies pay contributions, making foreign streaming services do so, giving consumers the option of making a voluntary contribution on their bills, and making “telecom companies add an app to every...
Sasktel ties for fastest LTE speeds in the world: OpenSignal
telecom | 11/10/2016 9:29 pm EST
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp.’s LTE download speeds are among the fastest in the world, according to a new OpenSignal Inc. report. “In the fourth quarter, Singapore had...
Corus launches History OTT service
Media | 11/10/2016 8:36 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. has launched History Vault, a subscription over-the-top (OTT) service featuring programming from its History channel. The service, which costs $5.49 a month, “features hundreds of hours of...
iHeartRadio launches in Canada
Media | 10/07/2016 4:56 pm EDT
iHeartMedia Inc.'s free digital radio and music streaming service is now available in Canada, according to a press release from BCE Inc.’s media division. The free app, iHeartRadio, is available on a preview basis...
500 Canadian radio stations to be available through app
Media | 09/28/2016 5:28 pm EDT
Radio stations from some of Canada’s biggest broadcasters—including Rogers Communications Inc., Cogeco Inc., Newcap Inc., and Corus Entertainment Inc., among...
Most health devices don’t explain personal info collection: OPC
telecom | 09/22/2016 10:45 pm EDT
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Thursday that 62 per cent of the health devices it examined as part of a global sweep didn’t “adequately explain how personal...
Rogers launches small business app portal
telecom | 09/07/2016 5:37 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Wednesday a new platform for businesses to manage cloud applications. The Rogers Business App Market is billed as an online portal “where small business can purchase,...
Rio Olympics draws 32M viewers: CBC
Media | 08/23/2016 6:03 pm EDT
The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were the most-watched Summer Games in Canadian history, CBC/Radio-Canada said Tuesday of the two-week event that wrapped up Sunday night. In a...
Dan Beer named You.i TV COO
Media | 08/19/2016 7:13 pm EDT
Burgeoning Ottawa-based TV app maker You.i TV has hired its first chief operating officer, the company announced this week. In a Tuesday press release, the company said Dan Beer’s appointment was made “in order to fuel the company’s continued rapid growth and...
Stingray hires Rick Bergan to head U.S. distribution
Media | 08/02/2016 5:26 pm EDT
Stingray Digital Group Inc. is expanding its management team with the appointment of a head of content distribution in the United States. Rick Bergan, who previously held the senior vice-president of distribution position at Music Choice, a Stingray competitor that filed a patent suit against the company in June, has been appointed to the newly-created position at the Montreal-based music distribution company, according to a Tuesday press release. He was most recently executive vice-president of business development and sales at Comcast Corp.'s OneTwoSee, which...
Set-top box retailer involved in software development, BDUs claim
Media | 07/22/2016 3:55 pm EDT
A trio of telecom companies are doubling down on their assertion that preloaded set-top box retailers are complicit in TV piracy, according to new court documents filed in their ongoing fight to...
The Shopping Channel introduces Apple TV app
Media | 06/16/2016 6:46 pm EDT
The Shopping Channel (TSC) has launched an app for Apple Inc.’s Apple TV platform. Rogers Communications Inc., which owns the Mississauga-based retailer, announced the ShopTSC app in a Thursday press release. The...
Microsoft buying LinkedIn for $26B
Media | 06/13/2016 6:41 pm EDT
Microsoft Corp. announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement to buy LinkedIn Corp.’s social networking site for $26.2 billion US. The companies said in a press release Monday that LinkedIn...
Wearable adoption slow, app use declining: study
telecom | 06/09/2016 6:53 pm EDT
The adoption of wearable devices is sluggish in Canada, with only 10 per cent of Canadians indicating they own one, suggest the results of a new Catalyst study. “While the advent of wearables, particularly the Apple Watch,...
TheScore launches Facebook Messaging bot for sports updates
Media | 06/01/2016 9:50 pm EDT
TheScore Inc. launched its chatbot for Facebook Inc.’s Messenger on Wednesday, making it one of the first sports media companies to build a messaging bot to update users on sports developments. The bot allows Facebook Messenger users to receive automated and up-to-date information on teams they follow, the company said in a press release. Users can type in a name of a team from the NFL, the MLB, the NBA, the NHL and most major soccer leagues into Messenger and will be asked if they wish to follow the team. Users can then ask the bot questions about how their team is doing and make...
WhatsApp to encrypt all traffic
Media | 04/07/2016 5:31 pm EDT
Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp will automatically encrypt all communications going through its service, the company announced. “From now on when you and your contacts use the latest version of the app, every call...
WhatsApp won’t be available on BlackBerry by end of year
Media | 02/29/2016 10:32 pm EST
Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp will stop supporting its messenger app on most BlackBerry Inc. devices by the end of the year, the company said in a blog post Friday. Company...
BlackBerry launches new mobile security software
Media | 01/26/2016 5:53 pm EST
BlackBerry Ltd. announced Tuesday the release of a new suite of mobile security software for businesses. It said in a press release that the new software, called Good Secure EMM Suites, is "a comprehensive set of mobile...
CIRA adds $1M to community investment program
Media | 01/20/2016 3:51 pm EST
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) said Wednesday that it has committed another $1 million to its community investment program, which helps fund projects that improve Internet access and knowledge about digital...
Bell to bring iHeartRadio to Canada
Media | 01/06/2016 2:49 pm EST
BCE Inc. announced Wednesday it has signed a partnership deal with iHeartMedia Inc. in order to bring iHeartRadio, the free digital radio and music streaming service based in the U.S., to Canada this year. It said in a press...
Netflix says new process will waste less bandwidth
Media | 12/15/2015 5:44 pm EST
Netflix Inc. is re-encoding its entire library of content in order to provide customers with a better experience for watching content while using less bandwidth to process it. The company said in a blog Monday that the...
Bell adds Netflix link to IPTV services
Media | 12/14/2015 3:19 pm EST
BCE Inc. announced Monday that subscribers of Bell’s Fibe TV and Bell Alliant’s FibreOP TV will have access to their Netflix Inc. account directly from their TV receivers. It said in the release that all Fibe TV...
Yahoo launches mobile app in U.S. to find OTT content
Media | 12/11/2015 8:04 pm EST
Yahoo Inc. announced Thursday the launch of its Yahoo Video Guide mobile app for customers in the United States to search for video content across multiple services they have installed on their devices. The company said in a blog...
Wearable shipments up almost 200% in Q3: IDC
Media | 12/03/2015 4:08 pm EST
Worldwide wearable shipments rose 197.6 per cent with 21 million units shipped in the third quarter this year, up from 7.1 million units in the same period a year earlier, according to a new report released Thursday by International Data Corp. IDC said in the press release that Chinese vendors are seeing high demand growth because of reasonably priced wearable devices that include better features, and added that companies like Xiaomi Corp. — the third most popular brand shipping 3.7 million units — and BBK Electronics Co. Ltd.’s subsidiary XTC — which beat Samsung...
Shaw provides better public WiFi for premium plans
Media | 12/02/2015 8:38 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc. announced Wednesday that all customers who are subscribed to its Internet 30, or any broadband Internet plan above that, will have access to download speeds six times faster when connected to any of the...
Google launches YouTube Kids in Canada
Media | 11/18/2015 4:02 pm EST
Google Inc. announced Wednesday it is launching in Canada its YouTube app for children. It said in a blogpost that the YouTube Kids app will be a “safer version of YouTube, a family-friendly place for kids to explore...
Apple Pay launches in Canada
Media | 11/17/2015 2:56 pm EST
American Express Co. announced Tuesday that Apple Inc.’s Apple Pay is now available for its eligible customers and small businesses in Canada. American Express said that once customers add their American Express card to...
Pandora to acquire assets of Rdio for $75M US
Media | 11/16/2015 9:42 pm EST
Pandora Media Inc. announced Monday it will be acquiring key assets from music streaming service Rdio Inc. for $75 million US. It said in a press release that it will be acquiring technology and intellectual property, as well as...
Cellular data to grow 10 times by 2021: Ericsson
telecom | 11/16/2015 7:10 pm EST
The amount of data flowing through cellular networks, both in North America and around the world, will increase almost 10 times over the next six years as growth in smartphone adoption continues and video consumption becomes more popular, according to reports released by Ericsson AB on Tuesday. Ericsson said global mobile data this year is expected to average 5.3 exabytes a month and rise to 51 EB by 2021, as it increases by an average of 45 per cent a year over that time. (One exabyte is equal to about one billion gigabytes.) The networking technology company said total traffic in Canada...
MTS to offer CTV, TSN TV-everywhere apps
Media | 11/12/2015 5:38 pm EST
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. said Thursday that all of its TV customers will have access to BCE Inc.’s TSN GO and CTV GO mobile apps for free. MTS said in a press release that the apps are available through Apple...
Verizon launches $2 US daily roaming in Canada
telecom | 11/12/2015 3:52 pm EST
Verizon Communications Inc. said Thursday it has introduced a new roaming service plan for U.S. subscribers that allows them to use their existing talk, messaging and data plans in Canada and Mexico for an extra $2 US a day. It...
Apple Music available on Android
Media | 11/11/2015 2:42 pm EST
Apple Inc. has made its music-streaming app available for Android devices. The Apple Music website now includes a link, that takes users to the Google Play store, to download what it calls a "beta" version of the app...
Napster launches music subscription service to Canadians
Media | 11/02/2015 4:37 pm EST
Rhapsody International Inc.’s music subscription service, Napster, announced Monday that its subscription service is now available in Canada. It said in a press release that, for a limited...
Apple drives 500% increase in smartwatch shipments: report
Media | 10/30/2015 4:07 pm EDT
Global smartwatch shipments were up 510 per cent in this year's third quarter from a year earlier, with 6.1 million units shipped compared to one million during the same period the previous year,...
Smartphone shipments up 8.4% in Q3: Juniper
Media | 10/29/2015 5:51 pm EDT
Juniper Research Ltd. said Thursday that global smartphone shipments in this year's third quarter totalled 342.5 million, representing growth of 8.4 per cent. It said in the press release that Apple Inc.’s iPhones...
Smartphone shipments rise 6.8% in Q3: IDC
Media | 10/28/2015 3:53 pm EDT
Worldwide smartphone shipments grew 6.8 per cent from a year earlier in the third quarter to 355.2 million units, up from 332.6 million units in the same period the previous year, according to a new report from International...
Apple Pay coming to Canada, with Amex
Media | 10/28/2015 2:19 pm EDT
Apple Inc.'s mobile payment system is coming to Canada but will be, at least initially, limited to holders of credit cards from American Express Co. Apple CEO Tim Cook, during a conference call Tuesday to discuss the...
Bell Media launches Discovery GO
Media | 10/26/2015 8:49 pm EDT
BCE Inc.’s media division has launched a TV-everywhere app for five Discovery Canada channels, and said Discovery GO would soon begin offering 4K content. The company said in a press release Monday that programming from Discovery, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Discovery Science, and Discovery Velocity will be available “live and on demand on smartphones, tablets, computers, and television set-top boxes.” The service will be available to customers of Bell’s Fibe TV and satellite TV services, as well as customers of TV service from Shaw Communications Inc. and Eastlink. The company said its Bell FibreOP TV customers who “subscribe to Discovery Canada channels can now enjoy that content on their set-top boxes with app access coming soon.” Bell added that “Discovery GO will soon become one of...
Youtube to launch paid video subscription service
Media | 10/22/2015 2:23 pm EDT
Google Inc.’s Youtube announced Wednesday it will launch a new paid video subscription service that will have ad-free original content. It said in a blog post that the service, called Youtube Red, will be available on all...
Few Canadians using mobile-payment apps: survey
Media | 10/20/2015 7:10 pm EDT
Forty per cent of Canadians are aware of mobile-payment methods, up from 35 per cent a year earlier, but only 10 per cent are using their mobile phones to make payments on a weekly basis, according to survey results released...
Yellow Pages links Canadian business information to Apple Maps
Media | 10/19/2015 1:41 pm EDT
Yellow Pages Ltd. announced Monday that data from its online digital platform that provides information on Canadian businesses will be directly linked and offered on Apple Inc.’s Apple Maps. It...
Are apps the future of TV?
Media | 10/14/2015 4:30 pm EDT
In the past 18 months, Ottawa-based TV app-maker You.i TV has grown from 20 employees to 130, and the company expects that kind of expansion to continue in the next year, according to Matt Nelson, You.i TV’s director of marketing. “Basically, anyone who has a channel, anyone who has a...
CMF teams with Screen Australia to fund digital projects
Media | 10/14/2015 3:57 pm EDT
The Canada Media Fund and the Australian government, through the Screen Australia agency, are investing $800,000 into an initiative for digital interactive projects. “With 50 film and television co-productions between Canada and Australia, it’s a natural fit to build on this relationship and create an incentive for interactive digital media co-production,” CMF president Valerie Creighton said in a joint press release Wednesday. Mike Cowap, investment manager at Screen Australia, said in the release that the Canada-Australia Interactive Digital Media Incentive “is...
Countdown on for global Internet governance transition
telecom | 10/07/2015 8:20 pm EDT
OTTAWA — When people think about the Internet, they often associate it with applications, social networks, streamed video, megabits per second or data caps, without realizing that the structure...
iPhone users more likely to stream: MTM
Media | 10/01/2015 6:12 pm EDT
Apple Inc.’s iPhone owners stream audio and video content more than any other device owners, according to a new report released by Media Technology Monitor (MTM), a project of CBC/Radio-Canada. The report said that among...
Canadian wearable shipments to rise 55% this year: IDC
Media | 09/30/2015 4:15 pm EDT
The Canadian wearable market is expected to get shipments of 1.4 million units by the end of 2015, up almost 55 per cent from 905,000 last year, according to International Data Corp. The...
Rogers launches first Canadian music radio app for Apple Watch
Media | 09/28/2015 2:59 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Monday that its KiSS 92.5 in Toronto is the first Canadian music radio station to launch an app for Apple Inc.’s Apple Watch. It said in a press release...
Weekend iPhone sales set new record
Media | 09/28/2015 1:41 pm EDT
Apple Inc. said Monday that more than 13 million iPhone 6s and 6s Plus devices have been sold in their first three days of availability, setting a new company record. “Sales for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus have been...
Will ad blocking destroy digital advertising?
Media | 09/25/2015 6:59 pm EDT
Technology that’s been around for years, which allows individuals to use services like apps and browser extensions to avoid seeing online advertising, has been causing new controversy in the past few weeks. According to...
Kik adds Jae Kim, Alim Dhanji
Media | 09/23/2015 9:30 pm EDT
Kik Interactive Inc., the Waterloo, Ont.-based mobile messaging company, said Tuesday it has added two new executives. One is Jae Kim, who will be head of strategy and partnerships, Kik said in a press release. Kim was formerly...
Mobile messaging grows, monetization remains the challenge
Media | 09/23/2015 8:50 pm EDT
Mobile-messaging through apps in Canada and globally is on the rise as it attracts users wanting a convenient interface that can help them be included in social circles, though the steep growth in...
Desjardins releases mobile payments for small business
Media | 09/23/2015 3:23 pm EDT
Financial services cooperative Desjardins Group announced on Wednesday new applications to allow small business, self-employed workers and "merchants on the go" to collect card payments with portable tools. The most basic product it revealed in a press release is Monetico Mobile, which is comprised of a small keypad that connects through Bluetooth to an app on an Apple Inc. iOS- or Google Inc. Android-powered smartphone or tablet. The payment system accepts chip-based MasterCard or Visa credit cards, and can email or text the customer a receipt. The cost of this setup is $49, or...
Starbucks app allows advance orders by smartphone
Media | 09/22/2015 6:18 pm EDT
Starbucks Coffee Co. said Thursday it has now implemented advance orders through smartphones at more than 7,400 of its locations in the United States, and it will start trying the idea in Canada next month. The coffee-chain...
Corus releases two kids’ TV-everywhere apps
Media | 09/22/2015 3:58 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. said Tuesday it is launching the YTVGo and NickGO TV-everywhere apps, which will be available to subscribers of its YTV and Nickelodeon channels. “These apps give kids and families access to live...
Almost three-quarters of companies using or deploying IoT: IDC
telecom | 09/22/2015 2:18 pm EDT
International Data Corp. said Tuesday that 73 per cent of enterprises it polled in a recent survey are using Internet of Things (IoT) technology or plan to do so over the next year. “IoT...
Battery life top complaint of Apple Watch owners: survey
Media | 09/15/2015 5:38 pm EDT
A new survey from research company 451 Research LLC. indicates high consumer satisfaction ratings with Apple Inc.’s Apple Watch, noting 54 per cent of consumers studied were very satisfied. 451...
Rover to power mobile app for Pittsburgh Penguins
Media | 09/15/2015 1:59 pm EDT
Rover Labs Inc., a Toronto-based maker of mobile engagement technology, announced Tuesday it is partnering with the Pittsburgh Penguins to bring fans exclusive content to their mobile devices at games through a new app. The company said in a press release that fans attending games at Consol Energy Centre in Pittsburgh will be greeted with content such as concession offers and discounts to enhance “the fan experience.” “We are excited to partner with Rover. Rover makes it easy for us to deliver relevant content to fans, and provides us with a platform to which we can have...
You.i TV gets $15M in funding
Media | 09/14/2015 5:03 pm EDT
You.i TV, an Ottawa-based company making software for video applications, said Monday it has secured $15 million in funding, led by Los Angeles-based private-equity group Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP. The company said in a...
Wearable shipments more than doubling this year: IDC
Media | 09/14/2015 1:49 pm EDT
International Data Corp. said Monday that wearable shipments will reach 76.1 million units this year, up 163.6 per cent from the 28.9 million units shipped in 2014. It said in a press release that total shipments of basic and...
Google rolls out Android Pay
telecom | 09/11/2015 2:14 pm EDT
Google Inc. announced Thursday on its official Android blog it has launched Android Pay. The blog post said that, after downloading the app onto any NFC-enabled Android device, users can use it for payments at more than a million...
Telus IoT platform goes global
Media | 09/09/2015 2:55 pm EDT
Telus Corp. announced Wednesday it is expanding its Internet of Things (IoT) platform globally to nearly every country around the world. It said in a press release that the new platform, called Telus Global IoT Connectivity...
Data costs limit mobile-video consumption: Ericsson
Media | 09/03/2015 8:16 pm EDT
A new report from Ericsson AB shows that while people are increasingly consuming video on mobile devices, the cost of data limits many from taking advantage of what the technology makes possible. The report released Thursday from...
Sony unveils first 4K smartphone
Media | 09/02/2015 3:46 pm EDT
Sony Corp. announced Wednesday at IFA Berlin, one of the world’s largest consumer electronics trade shows in Europe, the release of the world’s first 4K smartphone. Sony said in a press release that the Xperia Z5...
Privacy commish says children’s websites short on safeguards
Media | 09/02/2015 3:16 pm EDT
A majority of websites and mobile applications targeted to or popular with children were found recently to collect personal information from minors and share it with third parties, the Office of the...
Amazon adds download option for Prime customers
Media | 09/01/2015 2:17 pm EDT
Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime Video members in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Austria will now be able to download movies and TV shows for easy offline viewing at no additional cost, the company said in a press...
Net-neutrality advocates cry foul over Videotron music service
Media | 08/27/2015 8:15 pm EDT
MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is giving itself an undue preference with a new service that allows its mobile customers to listen to music streaming without it counting against their data caps, net neutrality advocates say. “The issue is known colloquially now as zero rating, where you treat certain packets from certain sources as not charged under your telecom billing plan,” John Lawford, executive director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), said in a phone interview. “The idea behind net neutrality is that that kind of favouritism isn’t...