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Are media conglomerates ready for the real-world of convergence?

The CRTC may have abstained from regulating new media and the Internet – at least for now – but its policies continue to have an impact on how the online environment evolves in Canada.

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Jeffrey Peterson has been appointed senior VP of e-business at Quebecor World Inc. Peterson was formerly a VP in the same position at DuPont. He will be responsible for using electronic networks to create cost savings at Quebecor. He was also a founder of the Management Systems Laboratories at Virginia Tech, and has held a number of Internet-related positions over the past 20 years.

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Airborne launches wireless gaming in SK
Montreal-based Airborne Entertainment has released a new wireless entertainment service dubbed the PocketBoxOffice. The launch was first announced with Saskatchewan telco Sasktel, though Airborne says every wireless carrier in the country can use it. The service consists of games, humour, and other short-form content.

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Archives learns valuable lessons about online content through digitization

The federal government is anxious to put Canada’s history online as quickly as possible, but issues like copyright and displaying material online could place serious limits on how quickly the job gets done, and the scope of the projects. The government’s Canadian Cultural Digital Content Initiative has put $2.5 million per year for three years in the hands of the National Archives to begin the massive job of digitizing its vast holdings.

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Telesat intensifies satellite multimedia applications research and development

The terrestrial Internet is a sub-standard mechanism for delivering audio and video signals compared to space-based transmissions, according to an executive with Canada’s sole satellite company. Paul Bush, Telesat Canada’s VP of corporate development, told Canadian NEW MEDIA that the single-hop architecture of satellite relays makes it a superior system compared to land-based networks. To exploit that advantage, the company recently announced that it would spend $5.5 million on high-speed multimedia trials that will accelerate development of applications and content.

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Producers go to Banff to find ways of extending MocDocs online exhibition

Primitive Entertainment partner Ian Kelso hopes the Banff Television Festival will give his company an opportunity to explore ways of extending a popular series of mock documentaries. The collection, six parodies produced for the Hot Docs festival last month in Toronto, were a one-off project, but Kelso hopes to make the series a permanent exhibition in cyberspace. Primitive has digitized the shorts and is getting ready to post them online, probably some time next week, at www.mocdocs.com.

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ITV faces years of development before regulatory code can be written

Canada’s broadcast and cable companies were unable to agree on any principles related to interactivity in a new digital code released late last week by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). But the industry doesn’t seemed concerned, with many noting that interactive television is too premature and not well enough understood to reach any consensus on how it should be introduced or carried. Experts on the subject predict it will be at least three years before any kind of business case for interactivity is even understood.

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Heritage tables $190-million wish list for new media in innovation funding round

New media technologies and digitization are promising to give Canadian Heritage a technological facelift as it joins other science-based departments and agencies (SBDAs) in putting forward recommendations for the upcoming Innovation White Paper. Canadian Heritage has tabled $400 million in proposals as part of a draft document of nearly $20-billion in funding for projects related to innovation, research and development.

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Copyright Board Jump hearing status in air as feds launch review of section 31

Parties to the ongoing JumpTV debate are at odds over the role a joint Industry Canada/Canadian Heritage review of section 31 of the Copyright Act will play in the overall debate. While officials from the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) lauded news of the legislative review, Jump counsel Sunny Handa questioned its appropriateness in light of a parallel process at the Copyright Board of Canada set for this fall. In the meantime, a senior official with Industry Canada was at great pains to emphasize that no decisions have been made, and no amendments are necessarily in the cards in the increasingly bitter debate.

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