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Virgin Mobile’s “National Fearless Day” was awesome

By John Connors ⋅ November 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Virgin Mobile held their “National Fearless Day” contest today and it was actually an awesome event, nothing shy of what you would expect from them.
Here’s why it was so cool:
1. Richard Branson was in attendance
2. There were 3 challenges
- 1. Find the letters in a tank full of maggots and Spell “Fearless”
- 2. Get chained [...]

Otterbox releases 3 new cases for the BlackBerry Storm2 9550

By John Connors ⋅ November 19, 2009 ⋅ One comment

For those who are jumping on board the newly released TELUS BlackBerry Storm2 you’ll be happy to know that Otter Box has got 3 new cases for you to protect your investment. Each of them has their own unique way to protect from scratches, bumps, dust and falls.
We’ll have a review soon but for now [...]

WIND Mobile hits the streets to perform “Random Acts of Kindness”

By John Connors ⋅ November 18, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

A couple of days ago Chris Robbins, CCO (Chief Customer Officer) of WIND stated on their company blog that they will be hitting the streets and doing “Random Acts of Kindness”. I guess that day was yesterday as a bunch of pics have surfaced of some of the staff that has been hired.
WIND states [...]

Rogers Annual Customer Appreciation Event now on!

By John Connors ⋅ November 17, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

If you’re a Rogers customer (of any of their services such as cable, wireless, internet, home phone) then you are eligible to participate in the 3rd Annual Rogers Customer Appreciation Event!
Just like the past two years there are tons of prizes to win. The site www.RogersThankYou.com has been set up and it says “So Many [...]

New Canadian iPhone apps: ecobee Smart Thermostat & SIRIUS Canada

By John Connors ⋅ November 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

There a couple new Canadian specific iPhone apps that have become officially available today: ecobee Smart Thermostat & SIRIUS Canada.
First up is the ecobee Smart Thermostat. This is a free app allows you to adjust their homes’ climate control settings anytime from anywhere. The features give you the flexibility to remotely adjust your thermostat’s temperature, [...]

On the day Kindle arrives, Shortcovers adds more Canadian publishers

By John Connors ⋅ November 17, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

Amazon’s eBook reader “Kindle” is available (link here) to ship in Canada today for $259 (USD) and has over 300,000 books and magazines around the U.S. $11.99 or less mark. They say that “Kindle wirelessly downloads books, magazines and newspapers to a crisp, high-resolution 6-inch electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. [...]

WIND Mobile: “We’re not about selling out”

By John Connors ⋅ November 16, 2009 ⋅ 26 comments

Even though Globalive/Wind Mobile are getting the interest of Bell/Rogers/Dave Wireless to eventually buy their spectrum, Chris Robbins, CCO (Chief Customer Officer) of WIND stated on their company blog that they are “not about selling out”.
Robbins goes on to state “We’ve always been about being here for the long term, not – like some of [...]

Enter the “BlackBerry Matrix”

By John Connors ⋅ November 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Special thanks to Kevin at CrackBerry.com as he captured this video of what is called the “BlackBerry Matrix” from the BlackBerry Developer Conference last week. From watching the video it shows a monitor with all the apps being downloaded from the BlackBerry AppWorld (one-minute delay).
It’s pretty cool, but we’ve seen something similar at Apple’s Developer [...]

Analyst confirms BlackBerry touchscreen slider coming in 2010

By John Connors ⋅ November 16, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

There has been a number of rumours of when RIM is going to release a device that has a full QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen capabilities. This has been labeled with the name “Pluto” and model number 9900.
We’ve written about this many times but Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu has written a report that it’s in [...]

Welcome back to 2007… Fido releases Red BlackBerry Pearl 8100

By John Connors ⋅ November 14, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Start lining up Canadians because the demand for the hottest selling device of 2007 just landed at Fido in a stunning holiday Red!
That’s right, you can now get the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 in Red. The good news for this outdated BlackBerry is that it’s priced at $0.00… the bad news is that it’s on a [...]

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