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Mitzie Hunter has been appointed president of SMART Toronto. She will report to chair of the board Dave Wharry. Hunter will work closely with the board to direct all aspects of the organization’s activities, guide its efforts in using Toronto’s strengths in the high tech sector and to promote the city as a worldwide centre for the creation and distribution of digital media.

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Indiqu announces mobile gaming with Bell Mobility
Montreal-based indiqu.com Inc has announced a new partnership with Bell Mobility that will see its games available to Bell’s Internet-ready subscribers. The company’s games are interactive and will be available immediately using the Bell Mobility wireless browser. The privately-held company is based in San Diego with a Canadian headquarters in Montreal, and supports a "global organization" as a wireless developer of applications.

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Infogrames consolidates multi-platform applications development in Montreal

A French powerhouse in video game development has chosen Canada as its first server site for a new gaming portal. Launched August 16, GameCitizen.com offers online visitors the chance to play games with others from around the world. It also provides information on strategies, daily news from the gaming industry and free downloads. On August 22, the company also announced a new partnership with Sympatico.ca, strengthening the game site’s mass-market appeal.

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Triax invests heavily in Ontario new media and Internet technology sectors

An important source of capital for new media and Internet companies has made a series of significant investments, including a first for the New Millennium Internet Ventures Fund. Triax Capital Holdings Inc has invested $43 million in 17 companies through two funds — the Triax Growth Fund managed by Altamira Management, and the recently-launched New Millennium fund.

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The shorter the better when it comes to Internet content, says Trailervision

A group of upstart actors, producers and web-heads are hoping to challenge some pre-conceived notions about Internet content with a series of new websites designed to push the bounds of the short-format film. Trailervision Inc recently won a half-million dollar investment from Toronto-based Internet incubator itemus Inc, money the small company will use to hire the technical staff necessary to create two new sites: Zapavision.com and Blipvision.com in addition to their current Trailervision.com spoof site. The sites will feature ever-shorter content, eventually licensing pieces less than 15 seconds long to portals and other sites eager for fresh, hip content to attract eyeballs.

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FMCanada.com challenges conventional radio by returning medium to its local roots

A long-time over-the-air radio broad veteran has made a bold move into cyberspace, announcing a string of 50 new Internet stations in each of Canada’s major markets. Tim Martz, president and CEO of San Francisco-based (with Canadian headquarters in Ottawa) Martz Communications Group Inc, says Internet broadcasting will replace traditional radio formats and offer listeners a greater choice of music with fewer, but more targeted, sponsorship messages. His first stations, called FMcanada.com went to air August 14 with digitally streamed audio and local and national news and information. Martz also expects to introduce a new wireless device within a week or two that will extend the company’s broadcasts beyond the PC to any FM radio within a 1000 feet.

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Proposed BCE/CTV channel aims for complete convergence of TV, Internet

A proposed digital TV channel hopes a new video technology will make it stand out from the pack of applicants currently before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for new specialty TV licences (CNM, April 20/00). DGNet, one of a large crop of CTV/BCE proposals, is enticing commissioners with a new format and signal distribution method called Alternate Format Video (AFV). Unlike several DTV proposals which add a website to the traditional broadcast mix, DGNet is dangling a completely interactive carrot before the commission, promising an open TV video network that will allow viewers to send and receive broadcast video. The AFV system is the centrepiece in an application promoting the proposed channel’s technology-oriented programming over a combined Internet/TV platform.

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Content, not access, the major barrier to getting more Canadians online, says PIAC

The federal government should invest as much as $50 million to help create cultural and community content that is relevant to peoples’ lives if it wants to see a greater number of Canadians hook up to the Internet, according to the author of a new report released by one of Canada’s main social advocacy groups. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says current policies that encourage people to get connected do not recognize that the growing divide between the on- and off-line communities is more the result of the type of content on the Internet rather than physical access to it.

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