Telus boosts research spending 147% in 2008 while BCE slips below $1 billion for first time in six years
BCE Inc. has slipped below the $1-billion mark for spending on research and development for the first time since 2003, according to the latest top 100 list of industrial R&D spenders. And while Canada’s largest telco still maintains the number two ranking, Telus Corp. has narrowed the gap with its biggest research spending year ever – driven largely by investments in its next generation wireless network and IPTV.
Telus wireless products retail at Black’s
August 2011 deadline for digital switch not realistic for all broadcasters, warns Rogers and Corus
Television broadcasters operating in major markets may be given some flexibility in meeting a August 2011 deadline for converting their over-the-air signals to digital, if Rogers Broadcasting Ltd and Corus Entertainment Inc. succeed in convincing the CRTC to be flexible.
Octasic expanding reach of wireless products with new low-cost, low-power next-gen base stations
Montreal-based Octasic Inc. is leveraging its early success in the 2G GSM base station space to expand into the broader 3G and 4G wireless infrastructure market with high performance chips that cost less and use less power than competing products.
Bell to launch new HSPA network
Bell TV’s online portal to carry Family Channel and Playhouse Disney
MTS Allstream top 25 employer in Manitoba
Wireless industry veterans join iBwave board
GameON Finance 2009: Ontario flashes cash, but VC industry warns more is needed to grow industry
Ontario video game developers might find it easier to beef up their business skills, market their wares, and find funding now that the Ontario government is pumping $605,000 into Interactive Ontario, the new media industry association. Judging by comments at the group’s GameON Finance 2009 conference in Toronto last week, government support is just one of the pieces that the sector needs if it’s going to kick growth into high gear.