Samsung Canada & Cineplex Launch Cineplex Store App
The addition of a new Cineplex Store App will allow consumers to rent or purchase movies on select models of Samsung televisions, Blu-ray players and home theatre systems. With thousands of movie titles available, and no monthly subscription required, Samsung owners will only pay for the movies they watch, and they can conveniently store and [...]
Hill+Knowlton Launches Predictor App Ahead of Alberta Election
If you need a heads-up before Alberta’s provincial election on April 23rd, well, there’s an app for that. Hill+Knowlton Strategies’ (H+K) interactive election predictor is back and available online. Political strategists and enthusiasts alike can forecast (or wager) on how the upcoming provincial election will unfold right down to the individual riding. With a downloadable [...]
Videtron Adds New TV Service: illico TV New Generation
Videotron will unveil a new, interactive HD service to its Quebec City customers on April 4th: illico TV new generation. Billed as a “technologically advanced, evolutionary platform”, the new service provides a vast selection of programming, extensive search functions, simple one-click recording, new visual viewing configurations, plus several interactive apps to simplify navigation. “With the [...]
Sony Releases Music Unlimited Service in Canada
Music fans throughout Canada will have the opportunity to sample a new digital music subscription service starting on March 15th courtesy of the Sony Entertainment Network. Sony’s Music Unlimited Service is a cloud-based service where users can access millions of songs on multiple devices including PlayStation3, Android handsets, PCs, Sony BRAVIA HDTVs and Blu-ray Disc [...]
Bell Launches Fibe TV in Quebec City
Bell has introduced its Fibe TV service to Quebec City with high-speed fibre optic technology available directly to residences and businesses beginning March 12th. The $220 million investment is the largest ‘fibre to the home’ network rollout of its kind in Canada, supporting enhanced competition and choice in Québec with the latest broadband TV, Internet and Home [...]
Rogers and Bell Tagged for ‘Possible’ Apple iTV Partnership
Several reports indicate Apple has approached Rogers and Bell Canada as potential partners for an iTV launch. Quoting from the Globe and Mail, both Canadian carriers supposedly have the iTV product in their telecommunications labs for product testing. The concept, according to the Globe’s Feb. 6th report, is that “of a big-screen television that would [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note Set to Kick Off in North America with Big Super Bowl Ad
Samsung is all set to pull out the stops for the Galaxy Note phone-tab on February 5th with a 90-second Super Bowl ad. Samsung even hired movie director Bobby Farrelly, creator of Something About Mary and Dumb and Dumber, to help make the commercial. The Super Bowl advertisement, part of which was shot with the [...]
Sirius Canada now available on the Sonos Music System
Sonos, makers of wireless music systems for the home, and subscription satellite radio provider Sirius Canada week announced today that Sirius Canada is now available to Sonos users.
Beginning today, Sonos users can add Sirius via the “More Music” tab on any Sonos controller.
