We give you the Class of 2008

Canada’s Telecommunications Hall of Fame has announced the inductees for the Class of 2008 and it includes high-profile executives, business icons and inventors.

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Canada lags globally in offering hyperconnectivity

Canada’s slow pace in embracing hyperconnectivity – despite having solid wired and wireless communications infrastructures – means it is ill-equipped to serve a younger workforce accustomed to using multiple devices, multiple applications and a seamless network. That’s the warning from Nortel Networks Corp. in a new study that should serve as a wake-up call to Canadian companies.

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S-VOX to re-brand new stations

Independent broadcaster S-VOX has announced it has engaged Toronto-based marketing agencies Cundari SFP and Loopmedia to help re-brand CHNU-TV and CIIT-TV the Vancouver and Winnipeg stations S-VOX officially acquired in April. "These stations play important roles in their communities, and we will undertake to ensure that they retain a local character," said Mark Prasuhn, S-VOX’s COO and senior VP of programming. "S-VOX, working with talented partners such as Trillennium Media Group, is committed to developing local programming and nurturing local talent." S-VOX has also announced a new half-hour weekday talk series The Daily with Mark & Laura-Lynn, which it co produced with Trillennium, will premiere on June 2 on CHNU. Hosted by former BC Lions defensive back Mark Washington and Vancouver broadcast personality Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, the show features in-studio interviews and location segments, and will have a different thematic focus each day of the week – from business and world events to family and wellness.

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High Fidelity signs exclusive deal with US Network

Canada’s HD leader, High Fidelity HDTV Inc., has announced an agreement with Smithsonian Networks of the US under which programs from the Smithsonian Channel HD will be broadcast exclusively in Canada on High Fidelity’s Oasis HD, Equator HD, and Treasure HD. Smithsonian Channel HD’s programming covers genres such as wildlife, technology, history, culture and children’s programs. "Smithsonian Networks programming is a perfect fit for our suite of all-HD channels, and we are very proud to be able to offer it for the first time to Canadian viewers," said John Panikkar, partner and co-founder of High Fidelity. "We have made a commitment to Canadian viewers to offer the best in non-fiction HD programming, and Smithsonian Networks is a standard-bearer for that promise." Smithsonian Channel HD offers branded original content drawn largely from the assets of the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex, and features documentaries and short-subject films such as, World’s Finest Cars, Unbelievable Flying Objects, and Batwomen Of Panama.

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Colm Feore to head up Banff Jury

The Banff World Television Festival, which takes place in Banff AB from June 8-11, has announced that Colm Feore will preside over the 2008 International Jury. The prestigious five person jury is selected to represent a diverse cross section of some of the most respected individuals from the international television and new media industry and will select 6 Special Jury Prizes, including, Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Entertainment Program, Best Documentary and Best Drama. Feore is perhaps best known for his role in Bon Cop Bad Cop, one of the highest-grossing Canadian films of all time, and has also starred in Chicago and Trudeau. Feore will be joined on the jury by: Daniele Doglio, consulting editor to the director general of RAI; Cynthia A. Fenneman, CEO of American Public Television; Kerry Stauffer, director, Creative Electronic Environment (CEE) at The Banff Centre; and Robert Thomas, CEO of Creative Business Wales. The jury will convene one week prior to the festival to make its selections.

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CAIP wants Bell to lift veil of secrecy surrounding traffic throttling

The Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) is calling for greater transparency in exactly how Bell Canada Enterprises is throttling bandwidth to wholesale customers.  Is the carrier only targeting music and movie downloads; are open-source peer-to-peer downloads affected; is Bell giving priority speeds to its own services?

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“10 GbE is the nail in the coffin for fibre channel”

Storage networking is heading for change with fibre channel – the reigning king of gigabit-speed storage networking – going the way of the dodo bird. Why? Because 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) is a far more compelling storage networking technology.

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nextMedia will kick start new media regulatory debate

Already one of the premier digital media events in the country, June’s nextMedia conference in Banff now has the additional cache of providing the first opportunity for Canada’s interactive media heavyweights to collectively debate the CRTC‘s recently tabled new media agenda. First up: a panel of executives from Canada’s largest broadcasters.

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Cell-Loc gets new board members

Cell-Loc Location Technologies Inc. announced the election of John Budreski and Brian Kapusianyk to its board of directors. The election took place at the company’s AGM, which also marked the end of the terms of Michel Fattouche and Keith Bohn.

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OMA elects new leadership

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has elected a new chair of the board and two new vice-chairs. Fred Harrison, head of standards at Telefonica Europe will become the OMA’s new chair, replacing Jari Alvinen of Nokia. During Alvinen’s tenure, the organization has grown from its initial membership of 200 companies to its current membership of nearly 400 companies around the globe. Timo Perala, head of services standardization for Nokia Siemens Networks, and Ileana Leuca, service standardization director for AT&T, were elected as vice-chairs.

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