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‘Milestone’ digital content meeting to take place next week: Heritage

The federal government is organizing a working meeting next week in Ottawa involving a broad swath of stakeholders to devise strategies for promoting diversity of digital content, including discoverability and the quality and reliability of information online.

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TekSavvy launches IPTV service

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is now offering IPTV in Chatham, Ont., and the service will become available in other communities over the coming months, the company said Friday.

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Majority of Canadians for banning Chinese investment in telecom amid Huawei row

A strong majority of Canadians say the country should ban Chinese investment in “sensitive industries” like telecommunications, according to a new poll by the Angus Reid Institute that focuses on the diplomatic spat stirred up between Canada and China over the arrest of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd CFO Meng Wanzhou and detention of Canadians in China.

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Public music should feature Canadian content, Stingray says

Music in public establishments such as malls, bars and restaurants should be required to include Canadian content, resulting in additional revenue for homegrown artists, Stingray Group Inc. is suggesting.

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Devices ‘no less important’ in Huawei debate: computing professor

OTTAWA — Debate about whether or not to ban Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Canada’s future 5G networks has focused largely on backbone infrastructure, but a professor of computer science said consumer devices are also part of the risk equation.

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