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E-Content Institute lines up industry heavy-hitters to exploit desktop information

A group of prominent electronic content providers hope to better understand and exploit information sent to end users’ desktops through the formation of a new institute. The president of the E-Content Institute says 16 companies with information to sell have banded together in a tough economic climate to ensure they’re tightly focused on staying in the black, and examining new directions and strategies.

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Knowledge House failure leads Nova Scotia government on partner hunt

Nova Scotia’s Department of Education is looking for partners to help continue an online learning program that was unexpectedly shut down a week and a half after it began. The 83-student pilot program, which was to have run two years, had barely got off the ground when its operator, Knowledge House Inc, shut its doors due to a lack of financing (CNM, Sept. 20/01).

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LVNMC prepares for self-sustaining future after Ontario MEST seed funding expires

Toronto’s Liberty Village New Media Centre (LVNMC) says it’s developed a plan for staying in business without having to compete with the private sector. The centre – which last year received $1 million from the Ontario government to help fast-track new media startups to commercial success – will rely on multiple bundles of professional development sessions, consulting, referrals, IT services and facility rentals to sustain itself when the government money runs out in April 2003.

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New $1-million e-content fund on tap

Industry insiders have confirmed that a new $1-million e-content fund is being set up at CANARIE Inc just a few months after the organization released a major report on the need for more R&D in new media. Canadian NEW MEDIA has learned that the money will be drawn from Canadian Heritage’s Canadian Digital Cultural Content Initiative (CDCCI), and would be similar to other broadband applications programs established by CANARIE for e-health and tele-learning.

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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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Major challenges remain to ensure roll out of broadband wireless, Barnes

Wireless technologies have a key role to play in connecting every Canadian citizen to the Internet, and enabling them to partake in the information economy. Broadband access will also allow them to benefit from the advanced services that will soon be offered on wireless high-speed networks.

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Michel Beland has been appointed CFO of Toronto-based Microforum Inc. Beland is an experienced chartered accountant with more than 20 years of management and financial experience. He joins from a San Diego-based technology company where he served as executive VP, COO and CFO. He has previously worked as a senior VP and CFO with Rogers AT&T Wireless (ROW, Dec. 20/99), and executive VP/CFO and treasurer with Softkey Software products.

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Ericsson disputes Nortel’s numbers
Swedish wireless titan Ericsson is arguing with Nortel Networks Corp over who got the greater portion of a deal with VoiceStream Wireless. Ericsson maintains it won a $300-million contract to upgrade VoiceStream systems. Nortel asserts that it got the $300 million and that the Scandinavian company only received $150 million.

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Microcell Connexions furthers mobile data market through Project Rainbow

Microcell Connexions has taken its first step in providing mobile data services to the enterprise market through an agreement with location provider PowerLoc Technologies. Under the deal, the subsidiary of Paradigm Advanced Technologies Inc will lease capacity from the Microcell Telecommunications Inc subsidiary to offer its satellite-based asset tracking and location service.

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Growth in the Newfoundland wireless industry comes from practical applications

Year-over-year growth in the information and communications technologies (ICT) sector is generating jobs, revenue and a renewed sense of hope for Canada’s eastern most province. Last week, the government of Newfoundland and Labrador took advantage of an international conference on wireless technology to showcase some of its achievements in the ICT sector, and to demonstrate how the province’s traditional resource-based industries are actually helping the region to transform into a knowledge-based economy. In the wireless sector, Newfoundland has developed homegrown technologies that enable remote communications and more effective ways to manage fish and wildlife stocks.

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