Top Canadian mobile stories from the past week

Every week we bring you the latest in Canadian mobile news. Listed below is a quick overview of the top stories from the past seven days.

– Project Ion is now BlackBerry IoT Platform [Read here]
– HTC One M8 given its “end of life” notice [Read here]
– Good Cause: Bell Let’s Talk Day is happening January 28th [Read here]
– Rogers eliminating price matching policy on January 16th [Read here]
– Over 170,000 Canadians backed Kickstarter projects in 2014 [Read here]
– WhatsApp cracks 700 million monthly users [Read here]
– BBM for Android Wear hands-on (video) [Read here]
– Bell loses appeal in 911 class-action lawsuit [Read here]
– Public Mobile says new products and services are coming [Read here]
– Rogers to release the rugged Samsung Rugby 4 [Read here]
– Apple Pay could launch in Canada by the first half of this year [Read here]
– Samsung creates the “Penvatar” for S Pen users [Read here]
– Monster sues Beats Electronics over shady HTC deal [Read here]
– Carriers using domestic roaming agreements to fill in coverage gaps [Read here]
– App Store did half a billion dollars in the first week of January [Read here]
– Canadian App Store price increase now live [Read here]