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CBC introduces iPhone app

Streaming audio from radio and TV outlets follows breaking news app for BlackBerries

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Mad Men takes a pass on TV

Deal between Maple Pictures and iTunes makes season three available only through online store

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TVOntario selling DVDs

Partnership with Mongrel Media sends back-to-school disc to Chapters Indigo, Walmart, HMV

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Making sense of new technology

One of the problems with working in the audiovisual industry is that we all inhabit a technological bubble. Gadgets that we see at conferences and expos are always on the verge of ‘changing consumers behavior forever.’ Reports about Japanese or Korean innovations are always filled with overblown forecasts about revenues and growth.

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Gunn gets ready for Games 2.0

It might not be difficult to turn a profit in the casual gaming market, but Nathon Gunn is gunning for more with his new venture, Social Game Universe.

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Internet still ‘too new’ for regulation: Rogers

If a car ties up a whole lane on a busy highway for an entire day, it will create a problem for the other cars. That is exactly what bandwidth-hungry peer-to-peer files do, so the traffic must be managed.

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Waterlife flows into the web

Content-heavy site for NFB doc emerges after months of work at design shop Jam3

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The Doctor goes online

iTunes Canada picks up BBC shows including Doctor Who and Torchwood

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TSN brings CFL to iTunes

Regular-season and playoff games to be available for purchase

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Telefilm backs Flashpoint, GlassBOX

Games and mobile properties collect from new media fund. Flashpoint game in the works with Xenophile

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Ontario invests $263M in digital game studio

The Ontario government will pour $263 million over the next 10 years into a new Toronto video game studio for French interactive games publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA. As part of its agreement with Ontario, Paris-based Ubisoft will invest another $500 million in the Toronto complex, which will open later this year and create 800 new jobs. Ubisoft already employs around 2,400 people at its existing Montreal and Quebec City studios, and another recently opened Vancouver facility.

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CRTC must ‘keep the road open’

Internet providers should stop playing favorites, say producers and actors, amid warnings of a chill on digital distribution