Over the past year or so, we have seen tremendous advancements in generative artificial intelligence innovations, yet widespread business adoption of this new technology has...
Rogers Communications Inc. and the University of British Columbia said they have powered the first fully-functional 5G “smart campus” to test applications for the next-generation network. The campus includes 5G towers and an edge computing data centre for university researchers to test those technologies. It comes after a multi-million dollar investment in September 2018 toward the initiative. “With 5G at our doorstep, we’re focused on bringing together Canada’s brightest minds to research, incubate and commercialize applications that will transform the way we live and...
The public-private partnership known as ENCQOR 5G has now made mmWave spectrum available to participants. ENCQOR 5G was first announced in 2018 as a 5G laboratory of sorts, funded by $400 million from the federal government...
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is seeking assistance in moving...
Rogers Communications Inc. is lobbying the City of Montreal to be involved in the city’s 5G pilot...
A wireless network announced last year that allows small- and medium-sized businesses to test 5G technology is now operational, according to a press release. The ENCQOR 5G test bed, part of a public-private partnership to...
The Competition Bureau has created a new chief digital enforcement officer position and has appointed George McDonald, currently a senior account leader at IBM Corp., to the role. Effective Tuesday, McDonald will help the bureau “monitor the digital landscape, identify and evaluate new investigative techniques, and boost its digital intelligence gathering capabilities,” according to a press release. He’ll report directly to competition commissioner Matthew Boswell. McDonald will join the bureau through Interchange Canada, an exchange program that allows individuals from the...
A new group made up of businesses and industry associations wants to help...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner considers personal data of Canadians...
In the lead-up to a meeting with Amazon.com Inc., the government was...
Andre Leduc recalls introducing Microsoft Inc. Canada president Kevin...
The new trade pact forged by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to replace the...
OTTAWA — A public-private partnership to foster 5G technology research in...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Tuesday its media sales division had signed two deals that “expand reach and deliver brand-safe, premium-content environments to advertisers.” In a press release, the company said the...
Burgeoning Ottawa-based TV app maker You.i TV has hired its first chief operating officer, the company announced this week. In a Tuesday press release, the company said Dan Beer’s appointment was made “in order to fuel the company’s continued rapid growth and...
Millions of people tuned into live broadcasts of the electronic entertainment expo (E3) this week on Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube and Amazon.com Inc.’s Twitch.tv. It’s an event whose viewership has soared on the heels of a phenomenon that has been building for years, spawning a lucrative business that’s attracting competitors, inducing acquisitions and could be affecting traditional television. Hundreds of millions of viewers now watch video of both amateurs and professionals playing various games. Video-game live streaming is an industry that “has truly...
