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More Bell stores coming to a corner near you: Cope

Facing financial analysts for the first time in about two years, Bell Canada chief executive George Cope outlined the company’s plan to perform better on the wireless front. The company plans to leverage its brands, expand its retail presence and push harder on data devices and services.

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SMEs talk about benefits of ICT usage

Adoption of information and communications technologies (ICT) can give small businesses the edge they need to stay in the black during the economic downtown. This was the message from a roundtable of experts who were in Toronto earlier this month to talk about the benefits of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) leveraging ICT.

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Disaster planning 101: How to stay connected, no matter what

In late 2008 and early 2009 a strike among Ottawa’s bus drivers would transform the capital’s normally peaceful roads into pretzelled nightmares of cars, transport trucks and frayed nerves. Traffic became a real issue, and suddenly commuters used to spending 20 minutes door to door faced drives that would last an hour or two. By the second day of what would turn out to be a 52-day strike, Jean-Guy Francoeur had had enough.

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CAB declines to appear at new media hearing

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters has turned down a CRTC request to appear before the new media hearing scheduled for Feb. 17. In a letter dated Feb. 4th, Elizabeth Roscoe, executive VP, strategic policy, and public affairs, said CAB has nothing to add to the new media proceeding. In addition, CAB will also not appear before the CRTC for another deliberation on March 9.

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RIM to post higher than expected BlackBerry additions

Research in Motion announced this week that it expects to count 20% more new BlackBerry additions in the fourth quarter than it previously estimated. The company noted in a statement that net subscriber account additions will be 20% higher than the 2.9 million it estimated last year.

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DragonWave deploying backhaul network in Italy

DragonWave Inc. has announced that the third largest wireless broadband service provider in Italy Linkem Spa will deploy the company’s Horizon Compact system for backhaul purposes. Linkem provides nationwide Wi-Fi Hotspot services and wireless DSL services and over the next four years plans to build out its network to cover 80% of the country’s population by 2013.

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Wallace Wireless helps organizations upgrade old paging systems

Wallace Wireless has introduced WIC Pager a new service that allows healthcare and public safety organizations upgrade from aging paging systems to BlackBerries, and at the same time enables them to consolidate multiple devices into one.

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The Weather Network and Fido share secrets to successful location-based advertising

Location-based services (LBS) have been have plagued by device fragmentation, privacy concerns and screen sizes too small for optimal map views. But that isn’t stopping companies like The Weather Network and Fido from tapping into the potential of SMS to build customer loyalty and new revenue streams, delegates learned at this week’s Canadian Marketing Association‘s Mobile Marketing conference in Toronto.

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CTV consortium launches most ambitious web coverage of any Olympics

The CTV-led Olympics broadcast consortium has announced the launch of two websites that are expected to attract over 200 million visits in the one-year period leading up to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, but plans for distribution on mobile platforms are yet to be finalized.

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Internet traffic management likely to become more invasive: report

Internet traffic management could soon become more acute as some vendors adopt tougher inspection capabilities to overcome the limitations of deep packet inspection (DPI) technology, a new report released this week by the CRTC suggests.

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