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BlackBerry Bold 9700 lovingly ripped apart on Video

By John Connors ⋅ November 14, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Ever wondered what the BlackBerry Bold 9700 looks like under the hood? Well, wonder no more. Check out this long video of a step-by-step process of how to rip apart your new Bold. In the end it’s all individual pieces that make up this gem of a device:

B.C. residents embrace $1,000,000 TELUS cell tower!?!

By John Connors ⋅ November 13, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

It’s Friday the 13th and this is a bizarre story, not a scary story. Residents in the Cranbrook, B.C. area are embracing the build of a new $1,000,000 TELUS cell tower! Usually we hear the constant backlash… not this time.
The new tower will provide those woe come in the area access to TELUS’ new 3G+ [...]

iPhone turned into interactive children’s book

By John Connors ⋅ November 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s a pretty cool idea and a gentle look into the not to distant future.
Mobile Art Lab in Japan has combined the iPhone and a children’s book to and created a fully functioning interactive book that they call “PhoneBook”. Check out video and you’ll see that the iPhone slides into a book where the touchscreen [...]

Facebook iPhone app developer resigns over “Apple’s policies”

By John Connors ⋅ November 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

We’ve spoken about the ease of use when it comes to the iPhone Facebook app, this was created by engineer Joe Hewitt and apparently he’s had enough and resigned his position due to the frustration of over Apple’s app review process.
He’s tweeted “Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app [...]

Public Mobile creates blog and starts building relationships

By John Connors ⋅ November 11, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Public Mobile is one of the new wireless carriers that will be entering the Canadian market, most likely within weeks. They’ll be offering a flat rate $40 unlimited talk and text plan to those in the Ontario/Quebec regions… the only device they have revealed to date is the entry-level ZTE C78.
It seems they have started [...]

Industry Minister seeked “further comments” from industry players to resolve Globalive issue

By John Connors ⋅ November 10, 2009 ⋅ 10 comments

The Globalive/WIND foreign ownership story is continuing in a script manner. Honestly if you are a Canadian screenwriter and want to make a documentary this is one to seriously think about.
Since the CRTC stalled them from launching, Industry Minister Tony Clement has stepped in to review the situation. According to The Globe, he sent a [...]

Palm Pre For Dummies now available in Canada for $15

By John Connors ⋅ November 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Now that the Bell Palm Pre has been dropped to a mere $99.95, why not take a few minutes and spend the extra dough on getting a book and learning everything there is to know about it.
We first wrote about “Palm Pre for Dummies” back in August but never returned to let you know that’s [...]

Bell’s blue map shows they dominate over Rogers

By John Connors ⋅ November 9, 2009 ⋅ 22 comments

The coverage and reliability question has been a hot topic between Bell and Rogers for years. With the launch of Bell’s new HSPA network we’re sure things will heat up even more. We are actually doing our own test of reliability and speed of all the networks but this fun coloured map shows Canada dressed [...]

RIM & Adobe strengthen relationships… confirms Flash coming to BlackBerry again

By John Connors ⋅ November 9, 2009 ⋅ One comment

There will be a number of major announcements coming from the 2009 BlackBerry Developer Conference. The first was released a few minutes ago that again strengthens the ties between RIM and Adobe.
According to the press release, this announcement will “accelerate the mobile application and content development workflow between BlackBerry application and web content developers and [...]

“Pocketfox” named “Firefox Goes Mobile” Winner