Bell Mobility has introduced BlackBerry Unite, a SOHO and family-type version of its Research in Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry enterprise mobile email service. It allows a provides small groups of up to five BlackBerry users with easy, mobile access to email, web browsing, a shared calendar, shared contacts, pictures, documents, and other desktop computer content.

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The National Film Board of Canada‘s filmmaker-in-residence’s website has been awarded a Webby award for Best Documentary Series. The NFB beat out other award wining site producers including PBS Frontline World, National Public Radio‘s Project Song, The Globe and Mail‘s Boy in the Moon and the MIT Media Lab’s Labcast to win the Webby, which are the leading international award honouring excellence on the Internet and are often referred to as ‘the Oscars of the Web.’ Established in 1996, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities. The NFB site, which tells the story of the NFB’s innovative filmmaker-in-residence project, has already won the Canadian New Media Award for Excellence in News, Information, and the Big Orange Rubber Arrow for Best Narrative at the Flashforward 2007 Boston conference.

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TSN and Rogers Sportsnet have announced an agreement to jointly televise all 31 games live and in high definition from the EURO 2008 soccer tournament taking place in Austria and Switzerland from June 7 to 29. TSN originally acquired the English-language broadcast rights to EURO 2008 and entered the sub-licensing deal with Sportsnet to ensure Canadians will be able to watch ever game live. TSN will broadcast 16 matches including the semi-final and final, while Sportsnet will pick up the remaining 15 games. TSN and Rogers Sportsnet have once again come together to best serve Canadian viewers," said TSN president Phil King. "EURO 2008 is one of the biggest sporting events in the world, and thus deserves the kind of quality coverage that we have proven can be achieved by working as a team." In the past TSN and Sportsnet have successfully co-broadcast the Canada/Russia Super Series junior hockey event and the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

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