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Incumbent cellcos to experience little impact from new entrant

With an announcement on the spectrum auction rules likely coming from Industry Canada minister Jim Prentice in the next couple of weeks, financial analysts are predicting the potential impact of new competitors on Canada's wireless sector.

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Healthcare leaders offer opinions on electronic healthcare adoption

Technology, telehealth and electronic record adoption are not occurring rapidly enough among health practitioners, but the existence of incentives and removal of disincentives will accelerate the rate of adoption. 

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Interactive Ontario expands staff

Ontario's interactive digital content industry organization Interactive Ontario has announced two new additions to its staff. Michele Perras joins the association as project manager/producer and Lori Skalos has been named operations manager. Based in Toronto, Perras has worked as a research consultant, metalsmith and strategist. As a research associate at the Beal Institute for Strategic Creativity she developed innovation strategies, product ideation and branding for organizations including Motorola, Creative Commons Canada and Firefly Foundation. At IO Perras will assist in the development and production of the associations programmes. Skalos, who will oversee day-to-day functions at IO, has worked as a project lead in marketing for Hudson's Bay Company's specialty division for the past three years. Prior to that, she spent two years in Home Outfitters' operations department.

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A Mountie, a McKenzie and a couple of chefs: Canadian talent support CanWest acquisition of Alliance Atlantis

There's more than a month before the CRTC hearing to consider CanWest MediaWorks Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.'s broadcasting companies (Broadcasting  Public Notice 2007-11), which leaves plenty of time to review the 225 interventions the commission received on the matter. In addition to the broadcasters, BDUs, producers, private citizens and industry associations that commented on the acquisition, some notable Canadian talent offered their reasons why the purchase should be approved.

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Cross examination slow at essential services hearing

After two days of CRTC witness testimony on creating a new essential facilities regime, cross examinations haven't yet finished with two witnesses, demonstrating the seriousness of the review and the new regime's potential impacts on competitors, ILECs and other communications services providers.

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Sirius Canada cracks 500k subscriber mark

Satellite radio provider Sirius Canada Inc. announced today it has achieved more than 500,000 Canadian paying subscribers, including 200,000 additions since February of this year. Sirius is Canada's first satellite radio company to surpass half a million subscribers, achieving the milestone in only 22 months. "Achieving 500,000 subscribers in Canada in such a short time is a major milestone for our company and underscores the strength of SIRIUS' exclusive content featuring the best entertainment brands in North America in addition to our strong retail and automotive partnerships," said Sirius Canada's president and CEO Mark Redmond in a press release. Sirius' extensive list of automotive partners includes Ford, Chrysler, Audi, BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lexus, Mazda, Subaru, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo, and more than 100,000 vehicles have had a Sirius satellite radio system factory installed since January 2007.

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The Best of the Bell Fund: select projects

Bell Fund Pick Archive

In honour of last week's 10th anniversary of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Canadian NEW MEDIA is proud to offer a look at the monthly profiles of the stellar works of the Fund's recipients. Below is a listing of those profiles, in chronological order.

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Videogame firm continues to challenge new recruits

With the ambitious goal of increasing the workforce at its Montreal and Québec City studios by more than 1,000 employees by 2013, videogame designer Ubisoft has launched the second, and improved, edition of its TooMuchImagination.ca interactive recruitment challenge. This year's goal? To recruit 150 new talented designers, artists and programmers for its two Québec studios. 

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CAB’s 2007 HoF inductees

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters has announced that nine Canadians will be inducted into the CAB Broadcast Hall of Fame at a luncheon on November 6, during this year's CAB Convention. The Hall of Fame recognizes Canadians in private broadcasting or related industries who have achieved outstanding success in helping raise industry standards from a material or humanitarian standpoint. This year's nominees are: president and COO of Montreal's RNC Media Inc. Raynald Brière; founder of Ottawa's CHEZ 106 and former director of Canadian music development for Rogers Media Harvey Glatt; former president of the Radio Television News Directors Association Bruce Hogle; long-time radio morning show host Fred Latremouille; 1983 Broadcaster of the Year Donald Lawrie; former mayor of Saint John and independent broadcaster Bob Lockhart; renowned producer Rai Purdy (posthumously); radio personality Paul Reid (posthumously); and Phyllis Yaffe, CEO of Alliance Atlantis. "We are proud to see the Broadcast Hall of Fame enriched this year with the induction of these Canadians who have made remarkable contributions over the years to the broadcasting industry and to their communities," said CAB President and CEO, Glenn O'Farrell, in a press release. Complete bios of the inductees can be found at http://www.cab-acr.ca/english/media/news/07/nr_oct0907.shtm

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Telephone comes to Facebook

Montreal-based VoIP pioneer babyTEL has launched the first phone application for social networking platform Facebook. The service, named Telephone, allows Facebook members to call their friends or send voice messages with the direct-to-mail feature, which is created automatically when their friends add the Telephone application to their Facebook accounts. "We saw the astounding popularity of social networks and recognized that users lacked a means to have live conversations within their social network of choice," said babyTEL CEO Stephen Dorsey in a news release. "Our Social VoIP adds a new and exciting dimension to telephony in general and will soon connect seamlessly to the babyTEL VoIP network, cell phones and other landlines."

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