Pizza Pizza goes interactive for Grey Cup campaign

Toronto-based interactive advertising and marketing agency Indusblue has designed and produced PizzaPizzaFanFan.com, a website that features an online user generated experience for Pizza Pizza customers and highlights the chain's role as the official pizza restaurant of the CFL's Grey Cup. Fans who visit the interactive website can enter to win Grey Cup tickets and also upload an image of themselves that becomes part of a short video segment. According to the press release from Indusblue, "What they'll see is a video featuring an aerial view of a football stadium on game day, filled with screaming fans. They'll see the players on the field and then, as the camera pans the crowd, the people in the stands flip over the flip cards they're holding, each revealing a portion of the picture that was uploaded to the site."

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CWTA objects to request for non-tombstone data

With the new Parliamentary session underway and the governing Conservative Party of Canada recently introducing a new crime bill, it only seems appropriate to look at comments to Public Safety Canada's, once clandestine customer name and address consultation.

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Inconvenient truths of security: McAfee explains there’s no patch for stupidity

Security is, and will continue to be, a major headache for the enterprise community, according to one of McAfee Inc.'s leading experts on vulnerability best practices management. Despite all the efforts made, and those under development, to bring this issue front and centre for organizations and their employees, there remains a gaping hole in network security management: people.

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Telecom veterans join In Motion board

In Motion Technology has added two well-known veterans in the telecommunications and technology sectors to its board of directors. Peter Howley is chair of Success Generation Systems and Western Ventures and John Malone is president and CEO of The Eastern Management Group.

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Former Skype executive joins Mobivox

Mobivox has appointed former head of Skype Mobile Product Group, Nitzan Shaer as COO. He will also take a seat on the board of directors. Shaer joins Mobivox from IDG Ventures Boston, where he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence responsible for identifying new investment opportunities in the telecommunications and consumer Internet industries. IDG is an investor in Mobivox.

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Urban adds member to advisory board

Urban Communications has appointed Kees Van Winters to its advisory board. Van Winters has been active in the telecom and technology industries since 1986. He was VP of sales and marketing for Nationwide Cellular Service in New York from 1986 to 1992 and was a consultant to several major telecom companies in Canada and the US from 1992 to 1996.

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Wireless networking offers advantages to healthcare, but evaluation key

Just as drugs go through rigorous evaluation before they are introduced into healthcare systems on both sides of the border, new technologies should undergo greater scrutiny before they are rapidly diffused in healthcare, says the VP of a US-based non-profit health services research agency.

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Musicians don’t want American approach to copyright reform

In the wake of the October 4 judgement against Jammie Thomas, a single mother of two from Minnesota who was ordered to pay a penalty of $220,000 US for downloading 24 songs, the Canadian Music Creators Coalition (CMCC) is renewing its calls for the Canadian government to ensure a made-in-Canada approach to copyright reform. "When the Canadian Record Industry Association says 'copyright reform' what they really mean is ‘give a free hand to sue fans who download like they have in the US,'" said CMCC representative and Barenaked Ladies front man Steven Page in a release.  "We hope the government has a better solution in mind." The CMCC is believes a more effective legislative approach to peer-to-peer technology would be one that accepts current technological and music-business realities. Added Page: "It's short-sighted to say ‘See you in court' one day and ‘See you at Massey Hall' the next. If record labels want to try and sue fans, we hope that they'll have the courtesy to stop trying to do it in our names."

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Regulation and Policy: Business services in the spot light at essential services hearings

It shouldn't  surprise  many that viable business telecommunications service competition without access to at least some of the incumbent telephone companies' network was a major point of contention during the first six days of cross examinations at the CRTC's hearings into essential facilities and wholesale services.

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Rogers gets HSDPA to 25 top Canadian markets

Rogers Communications Inc. announced late last week that it had completed rollout of its high-speed mobile wireless network, HSDPA, to Canada's top 25 cities. Now Rogers' wireless subscribers in major regions from Quebec City to Victoria can get mobile high-speed data services, including video calling and mobile TV as well as visit popular social media websites such as YouTube and MySpace. While subscribers could already use their cell phones to do these things, Rogers HSDPA network allows for a better user experience. Rogers is marketing the service as Vision.

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