News By Kate O'Brien APR 28 2008, 10:03 PM EDT The CRTC has agreed to extend the deadline for the filing of documents relating to the proposed acquisition of BCE to May 12, 2008.
News By Ian Hardy APR 28 2008, 9:58 PM EDT Canadians can now sent anonymous information to law enforcement agencies about tips on crimes through the Crime Stoppers Program. Send your tips to CRIMES (274637) – See the demo here
News By Ian Hardy APR 27 2008, 9:23 AM EDT It’ called “Urban Mining” – checking your old electronic devices before throwing them out – in search of any gold, silver, copper or other metals. This is a growth industry around the world as metal prices skyrocket.
News By Kate O'Brien APR 25 2008, 7:22 AM EDT Handset makers sold 14% more phones in January-March than a year ago, growing at the fastest pace in five quarters. “Global handset volume continues to increase at a healthy pace. Recent annual growth rates have actually gone up, not down. Emerging markets continue to surge,” said Neil Mawston, analyst at Strategy Analytics.
News By Ian Hardy APR 25 2008, 4:09 AM EDT About 40 Peterborough residents formed a group called “Take Down the Tower Citizens’ Action Group” after a Telus cellphone tower in Peterborough suddenly appeared in a residential neighbourhood earlier this week. Spokesperson for the group Fred Wood said”What goes up can come down”.
News By MobileSyrup APR 24 2008, 5:23 PM EDT Beginning June 23rd, residents outside Metro Vancouver will have to start including the local area code when making local calls. Shawn Hall of Telus said “It’s not uncommon now for people, in addition to having a home phone and an office phone, to have a cellphone, a BlackBerry, a pager, a wireless aircard. Those devices add up by putting more pressure on the finite supply of phone numbers available in an area code that the area code can supply,”
News By MobileSyrup APR 24 2008, 11:41 AM EDT Bob Berner, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Rogers Wireless will be presenting at the GSMA Mobile Innovation Marketplace – Americas on June 3rd, 2008 in Atlanta, GA
News By Kate O'Brien APR 24 2008, 10:30 AM EDT Motorola Q1profits fell 39% and lost $194 million ( 9 cents per share) on revenue of $7.45 billion
News By Kate O'Brien APR 24 2008, 6:10 AM EDT Virgin Mobile Canada now has the Motorola RAZR 2 V9m for $149 on a 3-year plan.
News By Ian Hardy APR 23 2008, 9:26 PM EDT Stats Can says the number of Canadian households relying on cellphones as their only telephone service stands at 6.4 per cent – up from 5.1 per cent last year. The agency says 72 per cent of households have at least one cellphone, up 5% in the past year.
News By Kate O'Brien APR 23 2008, 2:16 PM EDT MTS has the Insider Plus 5 Plan from $14.99 that give you 300 weekday minutes, unlimited evenings and weekends starting at 6 p.m., unlimited local and long distance calls between MTS Mobility customers, unlimited local calls to and from any five people of your choice (any provider, mobile or landline), Voicemail. Check it out here
News By Ian Hardy APR 23 2008, 1:55 PM EDT Microsoft Corp.’s Tellme subsidiary has launched an application for the BlackBerry that lets people speak commands into their smart phones to search for businesses and make other queries.
News By MobileSyrup APR 23 2008, 6:50 AM EDT Sony Ericsson reports that their first-quarter net profits fell 48% to $213 million (USD). The reason is due to a slowing market growth in mid-to-high end phones.
News By Kate O'Brien APR 23 2008, 6:43 AM EDT Rogers Wireless Bathroom advertising: “Look your best. Video Calling is here.”
News By Ian Hardy APR 23 2008, 6:33 AM EDT Telus’ Prince George call centre will double to 150 people and go through a $1.3 million renovation
News By MobileSyrup APR 22 2008, 10:00 PM EDT Bell Canada was advised today that its technicians represented by the Communications, Energy and
