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BlackBerry Storm2 lovingly ripped apart!

Looking to watch a final video before the big ball drops tonight? Nothing will get you in the spirit of 2010 like a good old BlackBerry Storm2 being lovingly ripped apart. The video is over 6 minutes in length it’s done by Greek tech blog techblog.gr. In Canada the only place to get this is [...]

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Rogers drops price of BlackBerry Bold 9700 to $199.99

Rogers has once again dropped the price of the BlackBerry Bold 9700. We first saw them give a $50 price drop about a month ago and now they’ve made this available for $199.99 on a 3-year contract (This was originally priced at $299.99 when it first launched). If you don’t like the 3-year contract price [...]

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WIND now offering SIM cards for free

WIND has answered the call of many people who wanted to give them a go. They’ve started offering SIM cards and a bonus is that they’re free! All you have to do is take your current device to any location (corporate of Blockbuster) and sign up for any WIND plan. Here’s what their FAQ section [...]

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Sask. & B.C. join the cellphone ban while driving party

Newfoundland & Labrador were the first to ban cellphone use while driving in 1993… soon after Quebec, Nova Scotia and Ontario followed. On January 1st, 2010 a couple more provinces join the growing list: Saskatchewan and British Columbia. The ban officially goes into effect in a few hours but as usual the police will give [...]

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Video: Wind Mobile’s Microsoft Surface in Action

For those who don’t have WIND Mobile in their area, such as the upcoming locations for Vancouver, Edmonton and Ottawa, we took a quick video of the über-cool Microsoft Surface displays that are installed in their corporate stores. WIND went for a completely digital experience and these are used to show and compare their phones [...]

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Motorola searches for Marketing Manager to help with 2010 launches

We’d like to help out Motorola as this coming year will hopefully be a positive year for them in both product launches and organizational stability. A definite year of reinvention. A Motorola job description states they are looking a Marketing Manager for an 8 month contract position. With the anticipated launch of the TELUS Motorola [...]

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RIM under investigation for violating patents by unknown Prism Technologies

Omaha-based Prism Technologies filed a dispute with the International Trade Commission against RIM in which they state they have violated one of its patents. According to the complaint, the ‘288 Patent “covers an innovative way of controlling access to protected electronically stored data and information requested by a device using an Internet Protocol network…the method [...]

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Samsung m330 now available at PC Mobile

PC Mobile has made the Samsung m330 available and can be yours a couple of ways. Either the device itself or on a “bundle” with a Samsung m330 Bluetooth headset and vehicle adapter. The straight up m330 is priced at $69 while the bundle is available for $99. This is comparable to the Solo Mobile [...]

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Big 3 shut out of annual “50 Best Employers in Canada” study

The Globe & Mail and Hewitt Associates have released their annual study that shows the 50 Best Employers in Canada. The basis behind this is to measure employee engagement and “how positively employees feel about their employer, how likely they are to stay, and how committed they are to doing their utmost to achieve business [...]

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PC Mobile drops prices of LG 160 and Rumour until December 31st

It was not long ago that PC Mobile dropped their prices, but now they have jumped into the Boxing Week sales by discounting a couple prepaid devices by about $10. The offer is on until December 31st and you can get the LG 160 and Rumour on a decent price: LG 160: $39.00 LG160 Bundle: [...]