Canada’s Largest Digital Service Providers
Digital Home routinely receives updates from Canada’s largest Video, Voice, data and wireless providers informing us how successful they have been in signing up new customers and pronouncing themselves the industry leader.
Every quarter, we bring this information together and find out which public companies are Canada’s biggest video, voice, data and wireless service providers.
Netflix coming to Canada this fall
California based Netflix said today that it will be expanding its online subscription video-on-demand service to Canadians beginning this fall.
The company says English speaking customers in Canada will be able to watch a broad array of movies and TV episodes on their home computers or on their television via a range of consumer electronics devices capable of streaming from Netflix.
Canadians technology spending down in first four months of 2010
Canadians spent nearly $3.2 billion on technology products in the first four months of 2010, down two per cent from the previous year, according to a recent report from The NPD Group.
Researchers say revenues exhibited growth in the information technology (IT) segment, while consumer electronics remained almost flat and video games experienced a sharp decline. Revenues in the small domestic appliance (SDA) segment, an extension of the technology industry, also remained flat during the period.
Four out of Five Canadians logged on to the net in 2009
In 2009, four out of five (80%) Canadians aged 16 and older or 21.7 million people logged onto the Internet for personal reasons, up from 73% in 2007, according to Industry Canada’s 2009 Canadian Internet Use Survey.
The survey, which was conducted in November of 2009, asked more than 23,000 Canadians aged 16 years and over about their Internet use, including shopping, for the previous 12 months.
Canadian movie theatre attendance up 1.8%
Canadian motion picture theatres continued to entertain more movie-goers in 2008, the latest year for which numbers are available, according to numbers published by Statistics Canada today.
Cinemas, including indoor theatres, drive-ins and film festivals, sold 106.4 million tickets in 2008, up 1.8% from 104.5 million in 2007 and 102.9 million in 2006.
iPad coming to Canada May 28th
Apple announced today that the iPad will be coming to Canada and eight other countries on Friday May 28th, two months later than was originally announced.
Customers in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK will be able to pre-order all iPad models from Apple’s online store beginning on Monday, May 10.
Most Canadians unaware that internet gambling is illegal
Internet gambling is for the most part, illegal in both the United States and Canada yet a January Ipsos Reid survey has found that only 23% of Canadian respondents know Internet gambling is illegal in this country.
In the U.S., 37% of respondents to the survey were aware that Internet gambling was illegal.
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