market2world puts PR push on Ottawa's world class wireless technology cluster

By Nathan Rudyk

Ottawa's global marketing team is in Cambridge, UK this week promoting Ottawa's wireless advantage. Back at home, we're getting the story out to media on both sides of the Atlantic. And it's a heck of a story:

Four of the world’s top five wireless companies – Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson and Huawei – all have significant R&D facilities in Ottawa, home to one of the world's top wireless ecosystems. These wireless champions are part of a 360-company, 27,000-employee strong talent bank that spans the complete breadth of wireless infrastructure and services. They are building the next generation of wireless equipment, devices, components, sub-systems, middleware, apps and services, content, enablers, and professional services.

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Is Twitter and other real-time social networking content the new TV?

We've blogged in this space about "business tweeting" and indeed we're learning every day how useful Twitter is to forge new and sometimes faster relationships with journalists, bloggers and build stronger bonds with customers. In today's Financial Times, Charlene Li, social media analyst with the Altimeter Group, was quoted by Left Coast Tech Correspondent Chris Nuttall saying "Real-time content and data are almost becoming the new TV. Instead of watching pre-programmed TV, you're watching the activity of the world go by and, in particular, that of the friends you find interesting. It's mesmerising and addictive."

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