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Canadian Carriers and Dealers Happy With Nokia Lumia Sales, Samsung Ships 5 Million Galaxy Notes & Opera Mini 7 For Android Out Today
Canadian Carriers and Dealers Happy With Nokia Lumia Sales It was never a given that the Lumia brand would do much to right the lurching Nokia chip in North America, but based on feedback we’ve received from carriers and dealers,...
WIND Mobile to Release the Nokia Lumia 710, HTC Signs Patent Deal With Intertrust & Shipments of NFC-Enabled Handsets Reached 30 Million
Nivio Brings the Windows Desktop to Your iPad and Galaxy Nexus Nivio's been quietly rolling out its own, proudly licensed, version of a cloud-based Windows desktop. Its minimum requirement is the ability to handle HTML5, meaning...
4G LTE Phone Shipments to Grow Tenfold This Year, Instagram Sign-Up Page Now Beckons Android Users & Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs
Instagram Sign-Up Page Now Beckons Android Users The day when Android users will first lay hands on the red hot photo-sharing app Instagram just got even closer. Late Saturday, a sign-up page appeared on Instagram’s website, inviting...
HTC One V for Telus Goes on the Record with Sense 4.0, RIM is Looking to Hire a Senior iOS Developer & How Private Are Your Apps?
Kiip Lets Any App Reward You With Real-Life Prizes What if you won prizes for getting Likes on Instagram, listening to songs on Pandora, or making Highlight connections around town? Today Kiip expands its real-world rewards platform...
TELUS Rolls Out New Device Trade-In Program, Angry Birds Space Now Available & New Samsung Galaxy S III Picture Looks Like Last
TELUS Rolls Out New Device Trade-In Program, Available at 700 Stores Across Canada A few weeks let you know about TELUS launching a new trade-in recycling initiative, but today it’s been officially unveiled. They’ve partnered...
Colorado Woman’s iPhone 4 Combusts, Nokia Updates Drive, Maps, and Transport for Lumia Line & “Mobile Games” Are Played Most Often At Home
Despite The Name, Report Finds “Mobile Games” Are Played Most Often At Home Casual and mobile games company Miniclip has teamed up with app monetization platform and ad server MoPub, today releasing a joint study on the behavior...
New iPad hits 46° Celsius while running games
Amid reports that Apple's new tablet is overheating, Consumer Reports brought the new iPad into a lab to perform a series of usage tests with a thermal imaging camera. During one test, running the game Infinity Blade II for...
Rogers Goes Live with Nokia Lumia 900 Pre-Orders, Apple to Announce Plans for Its $100 Billion Cash Reserves & Cellphone Radiation Causes ADHD
Cellphone Radiation Causes ADHD in Lab Mice Pregnant women beware: you might want to add cellphones to the list of things to stay away from during pregnancy. Researchers at Yale studied the effects of cellphone radiation on the...
New iPad Jailbroken - Already
Well that didn't take long! Just several hours after Apple launched their new iPad, jailbreaker Musclenerd has tweeted screenshots of Cydia running on the 3rd gen iPad. Those anxious to break their iOS free will have to be patient...
PayPal Here Launches in Canada, Google Earth for Android and iOS Reaches Version 6.2 & Sparrow Launches Email Client for iOS With Gorgeous UI
PayPal Here Launches in Canada, Brings Mobile Payments to the Forefront For the last couple years we’ve been saying that what’s really missing in Canada is something like the Square payment system. This product was created by...
Lenovo Plans to Be First to Make a Windows 8 Tablet
A report from The Verge suggests that Lenovo is planning to be the first manufacturer to bring a Windows 8 tablet to market. According to their source, Lenovo is planning an October release. Few other details are available but...
WIND to Release the Samsung Galaxy S 4G, Android 4.0 Update Coming Soon to 16 HTC Devices & Canada Relaxes Rules on Foreign Ownership of Wireless Companies
Canada Relaxes Rules on Foreign Ownership of Wireless Companies, Plans Spectrum Auction for First Half of 2013 The Canadian government made a major announcement on telecom policy late this afternoon, revealing a change that opens...
Apple Confirms New iPad to Launch On Friday, March 16th at 8AM
Apple has officially confirmed via press release that it will release its new Retina display iPad on Friday March 16th at 8:00 AM in Canada, the United States and 8 other countries including Australia, France, Germany, Japan,...
LG also supplying iPad Retina Displays
Reports recently surfaced indicating that Samsung was the sole supplier of the Retina displays used in Apple's new iPad. Those reports suggested that Apple moved to Samsung as a supplier after LG and Sharp failed to deliver...
TELUS and Vox Mobile Launch Managed Mobility Services, Sony Xperia Sola Wants to Float Your Boat & Yahoo vs Facebook: Not The Next Mobile Patent War?
TELUS and Vox Mobile Launch Managed Mobility Services for the Enterprise Last month we reported on seven trademarks that TELUS had applied for earlier this year, all of which had to do with “managed mobility services.” Today the...
A Samsung Official Claims Apple Is Working On A Mini iPad
Quoting an anonymous Samsung employee, the Korea Times reports that Samsung will provide Apple with 7-inch displays for a new mini iPad.
The New iPad Available Friday at 8AM
Didn't get your new iPad pre-order in on time but still want one on launch day? You might have to start lining up Thursday night.
Fido Makes $50 Unlimited Plan Available on 3-Year Terms, Lumia 900 Pre-Orders Beginning 'Next Week' & Instagram for Android is ‘Better than iPhone App’
Fido Makes $50 Unlimited Canada-Wide Talk & Text Plan Available on 3-Year Terms Quick and important plan update here for those on Fido. They’ve recently opened up the flood gates to have their $50 Unlimited Canada-wide talk/text...
Rogers Launches “Rogers App Zone”, Sprint’s “Family-Friendly” ZTE Fury Available & Happstr Is the App That Finds Your Happy Place
Rogers Launches Exclusive BlackBerry App Called “Rogers App Zone” Rogers has released a new app in the BlackBerry App World called the “Rogers App Zone”. We’re told that this exclusive app is only for Rogers BlackBerry customers...
Apple to continue selling iPad 2 starting at $399
During its press conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Apple announced that it will continue selling the iPad 2 following the launch of its third-generation iPad tablet. The previous-generation model will see its price drop...
iPhoto for iPad and iPhone detailed
Apple has announced an iPad and iPhone version of its popular iPhoto app allowing you to edit photos on the go. "With the introduction of iPhoto, we’ve brought the entire suite of iLife apps to iOS and users are going to...
Apple Announces a new $499 Retina-Equipped iPad
Today, in downtown San Francisco, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook unveiled the iPad 3. “We are redefining the category that Apple created with the original iPad,” he said. The device looks very similar to the iPad 2 but...
Google’s Siri Competitor to Called ‘Assistant', Bell to Release the Samsung Galaxy Rugby and Sonim Bolt & Goodbye Android Market, Hello Google Play
Google’s Siri Competitor to Called ‘Assistant,’ Report Claims In December, it was reported that Google is working on a solution that will boost the capabilities of its Voice Actions on Android-powered devices in an effort to compete...
Koodo Comes Out With a $50 Data Plan, Samsung Announces Galaxy Pocket & Is the Philadelphia Cell Phone Jammer a Hero or Pest?
Koodo Comes Out With a $50/Month Canada-Wide Data Plan Not really sure when this happened, but it seems that Koodo has come out with a new plan. For $50/month you can sign yourself up for the Canada-Wide Data Plan. This gives...
Virgin Offering $5/Month Voicemail and Call Display, Key Lime Pie Tipped to Be Next Flavour of Android & Carrier SingTel Buys Amobee
Virgin Also Offering $5/Month Voicemail and Call Display on Select Plans Virgin has a new promo, just like Bell and TELUS, that offers up Caller ID and Voicemail for $5/month. This is an “exclusive limited time offer” and is only...
Samsung Sells 2 Million Galaxy Notes, HTC Sees Negative Smartphone Sales Trend Reversing & New Mobile Payment System Coming From Retailers
HTC Sees Negative Smartphone Sales Trend Reversing Thanks to HTC One Phones HTC is confident the company’s new One series smartphones will rescue the company from slowing sales, propelling it to the No.5 smartphone vendor spot...
Nokia Lumia 800 Dummy Devices Start Arriving at TELUS, Mobile Payment Solution LevelUp Now Seeing $1M Per Month & No quad-core Phones Until 2013 from Sony
Sony: No quad-core Phones Until 2013 Sony has no plans to launch smartphones with more powerful quad-core processors this year, a Sony Mobile Communications executive confirmed on Wednesday. Speaking with CNET Asia, Sony Mobile...
WIND Mobile Changing Rate Plans and Add-ons, Motorola Offers Up to $200 for Old Phones & Twitter Prepping to Roll Ads in Android and iOS Apps
WIND Mobile Changing Rate Plans and Add-ons March 1st, Here Are the Details The wind is shifting over at WIND Mobile. Rate plan changes are in the works and here’s the complete details for you. Axed are the names of their current...
Rogers Nokia Lumia 900 Launching in April, HTC Made Some Noise At MWC & Intel Announces New Processors and Partnerships
Rogers Nokia Lumia 900 Launching in April Want even more Nokia Lumia 900 news? Checking out the Nokia Mobile World Congress 2012 press conference keynote gives a bit more insight into when the LTE Windows Phone device will launch....
HTC One S Launching With Bell, TELUS, Virgin and Fido, Huawei Announces The Ascend D & HTC One X Offers LTE
HTC One S Launching With Bell, TELUS, Virgin and Fido Looks like Rogers might have an exclusive on the HTC One X, but the HTC S will be hitting all other carriers. Quick reminder of the One S specs, OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with...
Apple Acquires Chomp, ZTE to Debut Eight New Smartphones at MWC & Motorola Droid X Gets Massive Bug Fix Update
Texas Instruments Shows Off Dual-Core OMAP 5 SoC, Wipes the Floor with Tegra 3 The Tegra 3 has taken a bit of a hit in recent days as it was negatively compared to the upcoming dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset, and now...
Samsung's Galaxy S II Celebrates 20 Million Sold, LG Unveils Optimus 3D Max Android Phone & Video Accounts For Half Of All Mobile Traffic
Samsung's Galaxy S II Celebrates 20 Million Sold, Just in Time for MWC After crossing the 10 million units moved threshold back in September, Samsung has joyously announced ahead of MWC 2012 that its Galaxy S II family of phones...
TELUS to Launch New Trade-In Program, LG announces L-style Android Phones & Twitter's App Get Updates
TELUS to Launch New Trade-In Program Most carriers in Canada have some sort of device recycling program in place. The latest was Fido with FidoTRADE, basically mimicking what Best Buy and Future Shop have in their stores. Now...
Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy Mini 2 Revealed, ZTE Toasts the Mimosa X & Most Young People Buy Smartphones
ZTE Toasts the Mimosa X, with Nvidia Tegra 2 and Icera Modem ZTE and Nvidia today announced the Mimosa X, a new Android smartphone that includes both an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and an Nvidia Icera modem chipset with support for...
LG Announces Optimus Vu, Globe & Mail News App Officially Released & Google Quietly Launches Latitude Leaderboards
Google Quietly Launches Latitude Leaderboards, Threatens Foursquare Under Its Breath Google didn't exactly offer much fanfare for this new feature -- as far as we can tell, it still hasn't been officially announced. With the latest...
5 Paradoxes Shaping the Future of Mobile Commerce, Swype Updated to Support Ice Cream Sandwich & Clearwire Plans on Launching TD-LTE Network
5 Paradoxes Shaping the Future of Mobile Commerce “Mobile is ramping up faster than any other technology we have seen in the past,” says Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins. Mobile web adoption is happening eight times faster than...
TELUS Re-Introduces the $30/Month 6GB Data Plan, Sony Ericsson Is Now Sony Mobile Communications & Opera Snaps Up Mobile Theory
TELUS Re-Introduces the $30/Month 6GB Data Plan “In direct response to Bell and Rogers, TELUS is re-introducing the 6GB data add on, with an incredible 6GB of Data”. That sums it up. The $30/month 6GB plan is back – it’s available...
There Will Be More Smartphones Than Humans on the Planet, TELUS “Various locations” Have Reported Fake iPhones & Google Wallet Gets Prepaid Security Fix
There Will Be More Smartphones Than Humans on the Planet by Year’s End A prediction for the future of smartphone growth makes some bold projections: By the end of this year, there could be more smartphones on the planet than humans,...
Last-Minute Apps to Make Valentine’s Day Sweet, Virgin Offers Up Free Voicemail, Call Display & Google-Motorola Deal Approved
Last-Minute Apps to Make Valentine’s Day Sweet Valentine’s Day is a about celebrating connections. Whether it’s a loved one, a family member or a best friend, reconnect with the important people in your life with the great Valentine’s...
Vibergrowth: 50 Million Users, Apple Sues Samsung For 'Slide-To-Unlock' & Here Are 10 Apps for Finding Apps
10 Apps for Finding Apps With the bounty of apps available for mobile devices, it would take a full-time job to customize the best apps to suit our needs and populate our devices. Of course, there are the good ‘ol standbys...