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Peter Miller, VP, planning and regulatory affairs at CHUM Ltd., made a submission on September 12 in response to the CRTC’ s call for public comment on a regulatory framework for mobile broadcasting services (PN 2005-82). In this excerpt, Miller argues that the New Media Exemption Order applies to Internet content only, not private mobile telephony networks.

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Toronto-based online gaming software firm CryptoLogic Inc. has gained a new non-executive director in Nigel Simon, a 20-year veteran senior management veteran of the U.K.’s Gallaher, a tobacco manufacturer and wholesaler. During his time at Gallaher, Simon was partly responsible for growing the firm’s international profits by more than 600%, and also for the acquisition of a large Austrian tobacco concern. CryptoLogic believes Simon will prove indispensable as it pursues future growth in the U.K. and rest of Europe.

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New focus for PhotoChannel
Vancouver’s PhotoChannel Networks Inc. announced it will further expand its Digital Media Platform offering to include music, games, and video and mobile content. The Digital Media Platform – previously known as the PhotoChannel Network – is entering the final stages of development as a system for delivering digital photos to in-store locations for transfer to paper, CD or DVD. With the expanded focus, the system will allow consumers to produce their own music CDs. Said PhotoChannel chairman and CEO Peter Fitzgerald in a release: "Our retailers now…have a significant advantage in the marketplace by being able to merge the online digital content world with in-store production."

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The public-private partnership competition in Montreal between two of the world’s largest game developers took another turn this week, with French firm Ubisoft Entertainment signing yet another agreement with a Quebec university.

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Canadian firms bought $364 million worth of online ads in 2004, and that number looks set to increase by mid-double digits again this year, but that doesn’t mean the Internet is topping advertisers’ lists of media yet, says Canada’s interactive advertising trade body.

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