The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has congratulated the Canadian wireless industry and the public safety community for having improved 911 services over the last year.
While Windows Mobile languishes and the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android battle for smartphone supremacy, there are rumours Microsoft may turn to Zune to carve a new path in the smartphone market.
According to analyst firm Ovum, in 2010 contact center outsourcing providers will be challenged by tight in-house CRM budgets and agent-related challenges.
RSA, the security division of EMC, recently announced the results of its 2010 Global Online Consumer Security Survey that included some surprising Canadian numbers: we are aware of trojans and phishing, but not up to speed on voice scams or “smishing”, and wary of mobile banking.
Amdocs has reported strong revenue growth and an extension of its current managed services and related professional services relationships with Bell Canada and AT&T through until 2017.
Annual revenues from cloud-based mobile applications will reach nearly $9.5 billion by 2014, according to industry analyst Juniper Research, with consumer use driving growth and enterprises still concerned about security.
Canada's largest communications company is the Exclusive Telecommunications Partner to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games – Telemanagement takes a closer look at what Bell Canada is up to.
With all eyes on Apple’s new product release, the real news may be that Apple blew past first quarter earnings expectations and is moving into the enterprise space, long the domain of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry.
Not only is Mitel looking to go public, it also wants to become a mobile voice and data service provider. Should AT&T and Verizon Wireless be looking over their shoulders?
Infonetics Research has released its Service Provider Deep Packet Inspection Products Market Outlook, tracking vendors such as Allot, Arbor, Bivio, Cisco, CloudShield, Procera, Narus, NIKSUN, Sandvine, and Qosmos.
A survey by AFCOM, an association of data center management professionals, has revealed weakness in cyber terrorism preparedness, and real movement on the green front.
Globalive Wireless Corp had barely finished celebrating the federal government’s overturning of the CRTC’s foreign ownership ruling, when newcomer Public Mobile opened a salvo against the decision.
Montreal-headquartered Videotron has announced that it plans to create more than 600 new permanent full-time jobs between now and the end of 2010, and Globalive’s Wind Mobile continues to hire.
Deloitte’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry Group says that data demand will grow in Canada (hardly news), and Telemanagement takes issue with their take on IT contracts, cloud computing, Amazon’s Kindle, and Apple’s new tablet.
VeriSign fingers the Chinese Government as source of attack on Google, as the code goes public. Meanwhile, global black hats gain upper hand, Adobe says PDFs were not to blame, and security finds its way into green building designs.
Wind Mobile lands second retail distribution deal, the Apple iPhone 4 is confirmed to come to Canada on July 30th, and Telus is set to launch Android-powered Motorola i1 this autumn.
Apple Inc.’s CEO Steve Jobs, after repeating that the company “wasn’t perfect”, has offered free cases and refunds for customers unhappy about the iPhone 4’s performance.
In a submission for Industry Canada’s digital economy consultation, the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting has said that the CRTC could be reduced from 12 commissioners to 5, and that Canada’s four biggest cable companies should contribute 10% of their revenues to cultural funds such as the Canada Media Fund (CMF).
In this business the two most difficult companies for the media to get a hold of are Apple Corp and Research in Motion. So, when Apple said Wednesday that it will hold a news conference Friday concerning its iPhone 4, that’s news.
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry tablet will be a 7" device, with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, a slide-out keyboard with a 1GHz processor, two cameras for video conferencing, and...Flash 10.1.
Research In Motion's BlackBerry 6 OS, set for release this summer, boasts a revised interface and new features like multi-touch support, “kinetic scrolling”, a new home screen, and social media feeds, but it is still playing catch-up to the iPhone.
As poor iPhone 4 product reviews buffet Apple Corp – specifically a seemingly inevitable recall to solve reception problems – the company is feeling the heat from Google’s Android platform, which is set to shine where Apple dominates: music and media.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees of the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference that Microsoft is committed to bringing new tablets and smartphones to the market. But is it too little, too late?
The new App Inventor for Android, a Google Labs program for Windows, OS X, and Linux, should make building Android programs as easy as snapping together a Lego toy.
Only weeks after launching its Kin One and Kin Two with Verizon Wireless, and days after Verizon halved prices, Microsoft has cancelled further development of the devices.
At Cisco Live on June 29, Cisco Systems unwrapped “Cius”, a "mobile collaboration business tablet” that offers HD video capabilities - and Microsoft was nowhere to be seen.
Shipments of Wi-Fi enterprise access points topped 800,000 in the first quarter of 2010, according to the latest market data from ABI Research. The firm estimates that enterprise-class wireless access point shipments should achieve 11.6 million units by the end of 2015.
Bruce Hyer, the MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North, tabled Bill C-560, the Cellphone Freedom Act, which would force cellphone carriers to unlock all the devices they sell.
Independent retailers have traditionally been technology laggards, but this slow adoption of new technology has provided hidden benefits. Economies of scale are achieved at larger retail stores, and the new technologies become available to independent retailers at much lower costs. Today, independent retailers have access to point-of-sale systems with features comparable to large competitors. The costs of these systems are often hundreds of times less than the investment made by the large retail chains.
