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Sony Ericsson “Let Love In” free Valentine’s downloads
If you have a Sony Ericsson device and want to pimp out your phone this Valentine’s Day… head on over to their website for some free themes, images, wallpapers and ringtones.
The Source feels the love… puts Bold, Curve 8900 on Sale
Looks like The Source by Circuit City (or soon not to be) is feeling the love these days. They are joining all the others and hopping on the Valentine’s Day bandwagon. To spice things up for this romantic occasion, you’ll be able to get yourself a great deal on several Rogers BlackBerry devices (all with [...]
BlackBerry Pearl Flip coming in White soon?
Thanks to Kevin over at CrackBerry for his quick picture taking skills… Take a look at this image from a RIM presentation on BIS 5.0 that shows a the BlackBerry Pearl Flip all decked out in a smashing white colour
Voice Turn-by-Turn GPS iPhone app coming soon
The Apple iPhone looks to be getting a new app soon that will give you Voice Turn-by-Turn GPS. A great addition to he basic GPS it currently has. A new version of xGPS uses Google Maps driving direction and visual info… then translates the text into audible directions. Check out this 8-minute video demo
Bell to release Palm Treo Pro February 26th? (more updates)
We just got word that Bell is to release the anticipated Palm Treo Pro on Thursday, February 26th. Estimated price point that this will come in at is $199.95 on a 3-year contract (with a $45 monthly data plan). Been a while since we first wrote about this coming to Canada, but the Pro comes [...]
AppStore: Over 20,000 iPhone apps now available
What are your favourite iPhone apps? Is it Shazam, Yelp, iFart? According to Apptism’s iPhone app tracker there are now 20,274 apps available to choose from. On January 16th, Apple officially announced that they crossed the 15,000 app and 500 million downloads mark. Again on November 30th, 2008 seemed to be the day that we [...]
Certicom accepts RIM offer… rakes in $130 million
Mississauga-based encryption technology company Certicom has announced that RIM will acquire all issued and outstanding common shares at a cash price of C$3.00 per share… there are about 43.7 million shares outstanding which makes this deal valued over $130-million. RIM initially offered $1.50 per share, then Certicom took them to court, blocked the hostile takeover [...]
Nokia lays off 320, closes R&D plant…
Nokia has issues a statement that in order to “adapt to the market situation, Nokia today announced plans to close its mobile devices R&D site in Jyväskylä, concentrating mobile devices R&D in Finland at its sites in Tampere, Oulu, Salo and the Helsinki metropolitan area. Nokia also plans to scale down Salo production with staggered [...]
Bell Q4: 470,000 activations (down 7.8%)… 2009: key execs getting the boot?
What a crazy year Bell had in 2008… botched 52 billion takeover bid, restructuring management and cutting almost 3,000 employees, a decision to invest in 4G LTE technology with TELUS. Today Bell announced their Q4 results and BCE President and CEO George Cope said “This was another quarter of clear progress by the Bell team [...]
Mozilla releases Firefox Mobile “Fennec” on HTC Touch Pro only
If you have the HTC Touch Pro you can now download a pre-release of Mozilla’s Firefox Mobile browser “Fennec”. This is coined as a the first “Milestone Release” is not the finished product… but it’s always nice to see what the future holds for mobile browsing.
