Carly Suppa

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 9-0 Wednesday morning that Internet service providers (ISPs) should not be held responsible nor should be ordered to pay royalties to composers and artists for music downloaded by their Internet customers.

Nortel Networks Ltd. anticipates it will be ready to release financial results for Q1 2004 as early as mid-July, the company said Tuesday in its most recent bi-weekly status report, ordered as a result of Nortel's restatement processes by the Ontario Securities Commission.

Having already settled a wireless patent dispute with Redline Communications Inc. over its wideband orthagonal frequency division multiplexing (W-OFDM) technology earlier this year, Calgary-based Wi-LAN Inc. is taking aim at networking big fish, Cisco Systems Inc., claiming Cisco is using Wi-LAN technology in some of its products without a license.

Service has been restored for approximately 255,000 Aliant Inc. customers who went without service for nearly 15 hours earlier this month after the telco discovered network-critical fibre was cut in two eastern provinces.

Bill Owens, the new president of Nortel Networks, is surprised by the high degree of loyalty that carrier and enterprise customers show for his company. He's also surprised that a moniker he's been trying to shake for years continues to stick.

While normally recognized for its growing line of hardware options, Dell Canada Inc. on Tuesday announced an expansion of its service offerings in Canada, a market less familiar to the PC maker, but one its executives assure is a critical point of focus.

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Service has been restored for approximately 255,000 Aliant Inc. customers who went without service from late Tuesday evening through early Wednesday morning, after the telco discovered fibre was cut in two eastern provinces.