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Companies hiring have advantage over job seekers in tough new media sector

A downturn in the new media industry has created an employers’ market for talent, but a recruitment firm specializing in the sector is optimistic it can weather the storm. Al Pitt, a founder and president of PixelScout Inc, says since opening its doors a year ago the industry has taken a 180-degree turn when it comes to hiring and retaining employees.

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Fun Key to pursue bricks-and-mortar revenue through software downturn

A Montreal-based 3D software firm is buying up bricks-and-mortar entertainment companies to generate the operating capital it needs to survive the sales slump for new Internet tools. Yves Marmet, president of Fun Key Studios Inc, capped a series of 3D design acquisitions last week with the purchase of a controversial entertainment complex in downtown Montreal.

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Lack of relevant content, skills keeps seniors offline: StatsCan report

Statistics Canada is warning that a digital divide between younger Canadians and seniors using the Internet could set back the government’s Connecting Canadians and Government Online initiatives. Late last month, the bureau released a detailed breakdown of seniors’ online usage taken from the broad General Social Survey conducted in 2000. The report indicates that only 13 per cent of older people – 614,000 Canadians – had used the Internet in the previous year, with even lower incidences of usage among older women and lower-income and less-educated seniors.

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ISPs, Internet advertisers lay down fire over Competition Bureau draft guidelines

Internet service providers and Internet advertisers are taking the Competition Bureau to task over proposed new guidelines that could make ISPs liable for online content and prevent foreigners from visiting some Canadian web sites. The regulatory battle ignited this summer when the bureau received some angry responses to its proposed new guidelines for Internet advertising.

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Rogers acquires 13 Ontario radio stations
Rogers Media Inc has purchased 13 radio stations in Ontario from Standard Broadcasting for $100 million, subject to CRTC approval. Under the transaction, the stations, to be acquired by Standard Broadcasting from Telemedia Radio Inc, will be transferred to Rogers. Among the 13 stations is the all-sports radio station, CJCL – The Fan in Toronto. Rogers says the acquisition of the Fan will complement the sports programming on its specialty television channel Sportsnet. More details.

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The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Decima Reports.

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Wi-LAN Inc of Calgary has made two major executive and board level changes. The company's CFO Peter Kinash has left to pursue other interests and will be replaced by Steve Bellamy who held the same position at UC Wireless, a subsidiary of the Calgary-based company, since 1998. Bellamy has more than 20 years experience in financial operations both in North America and Europe with a particular strength in mergers and acquisitions, fundraising and cash management. Additionally, Michel Fattouche, chair and CEO at Cell-Loc Inc, has stepped down from the board of directors in order to spend more time on his responsibilities at Cell-Loc.

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Comparable spectrum and compensation needed before military can be displaced

Debate south of the border over the introduction of third-generation wireless networks continues with the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association and the wireless industry waging a war of words with U.S. military interests. The latest volley comes from the top brass at the U.S. military seeking support in the U.S. Senate.

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American company sets up wireless research centre in downtown Montreal

US-based InterDigital Communications Corp has hired a veteran engineer in wireless technologies to kick start its new 3G design centre in downtown Montreal. Michel Desgagné was appointed director of InterDigital Canada Ltée on Aug. 21. He previously worked at Ericsson Canada as senior manager of a group conducting research on 3G radio access networks.

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