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Canadians watching the Olympic coverage from Beijing can hardly have missed the Bell commercial touting a new digital video recorder that features an external hard drive permitting users to "record forever."
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Bell device may become illegal (Windsor Star)
OTTAWA - Bell is promoting a new product for archiving recorded television shows that will become illegal if the government's proposed copyright legislation becomes law.
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TELUS Reports Second Quarter Results (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
TELUS Corporation today reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2008, including revenue of $2.4 billion, an eight per cent increase from a year ago. The performance was driven by nine per cent growth in wireless revenue and 20 per cent growth in wireline data revenue.
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Manitoba Telecom's Second-Quarter Profit Declines 33% (Update3) (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. , Canada's third-largest land-line telephone company, reported a 33 percent drop in second-quarter profit after losing home-phone customers.
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MTS Reports Solid Second Quarter Results (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. today announced its results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008. Total revenues from continuing operations increased by 2.6% and 2.5% for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008 to reach $486.4 million and $965.2 million, respectively.
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Charles Brandes Buys Wachovia Corp., Bank of America Corp., Fidelity National Financial Inc., Sells BankUnited ... (Guru Focus)
Billionaire investor Charles Brandes has added significantly to his positions in financials. Is he seeing that things are tuning around? These are his buys and sells during the second quarter. Charles Brandes owns 201 stocks with a total value of $34.8 billion.
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MobiTV Now Has 4 Million+ Subscribers (Brighthand)
MobiTV's network for mobile television and radio has surpassed the four million subscriber mark.
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Chunghwa Video Services Demand Explodes With Premium HD and Olympics Content Secured by Widevine (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Widevine Technologies, the only provider of multiformat, multiplatform DRM and digital copy protection solutions, today announced Chunghwa Telecom has purchased an additional 450,000 Cypher® Virtual SmartCard(TM) clients from Widevine to accommodate rapid subscriber expansion and in-home network proliferation with existing subscribers.
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BCE buyout: On hold (Canadian Business)
The world's biggest leveraged buyout deal, whether it closes or collapses, will also rank as among the most tumultuous.
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MobiTV Soars Past Four Million Subscribers (Broadcast Newsroom)
EMERYVILLE, Calif. , Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MobiTV, Inc., the leader in the delivery of rich media mobile content and services, today announced that its managed network for mobile television and radio has surpassed four million subscribers.
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