WIND Mobile in Canada given a green light?
We’ve just started to hear reports that WIND Mobile, Canada’s Robin Hood, has been allowed to start operating “without delay.” This is a huge win …
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Acer Liquid wines and dines with the FCC
There’s absolutely no guarantee it will find a home with AT&T (or even Bell, Rogers or TELUS, for that matter), but Acer’s Liquid aka A1 …
Bell launches the Nokia N97
If you happen to live in Canada, have $199.95 burning a hole in your pocket, are more than happy to sign away three years worth …
French military contribues to Thunderbird 3, Gallic rooster beware
Okay, maybe the “not really a bird” thunderbird won’t be taking the place of the Gallic rooster as the avian mascot of France, but as …
AT&T's plans to improve network reliability and what that means for you
AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega announced yesterday that the carrier would start taking steps to improve its network and acknowledged that service in some areas …
Motorola DROID video winners!
Sorry it took so long, but we finally have chosen three winners for the first part in our Motorola DROID giveaway contest! We’ll keep this …
Bell launches the Samsung Galaxy at $99.95
And just like that, every major Canadian wireless carrier offers at least one Android smartphone as Bell has launched the Samsung Galaxy. Currently going for …
ASUS working on Eee Pad?
Here’s a fun but extremely short one for a slow Thursday — ASUS might be on the verge of jumping into the tablet business. According …
Dell Streak headed for CES reveal
Last year’s CES was a veritable snooze fest save for unveiling of the Palm Pre and webOS, but this January’s show looks to be much …
China uses crowdsourcing and money to identify pornography on the internet
Crazy but true… China’s Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center is offering a monetary reward to online surfers who send in information about pornographic websites. The …
HTC DROID Eris OTA update hitting handsets about… now
Verizon just let us know that an OTA update for the HTC DROID Eris is being pushed to handsets at about midnight this evening. The …
AT&T promises improved performance for SF and NYC
We’ve all heard the jokes about AT&T’s sub-par performance and how iPhone users are clogging up its network. Dropped calls, missed texts and delayed voicemails …
Ericsson to cut Swedish workforce by 1,000 employees
L.M Ericsson Telephone Company unexpectedly announced on Tuesday that it is laying off almost 1,000 employees in its native Sweden due to a 74% drop …
Security firm H4RDW4RE launches open source project to crack GSM encryption
It has been long argued that the A5/1 encryption standard used to secure GSM traffic from eavesdropping is, in fact, insecure, and California based security …
Nokia announces the 6700 classic Gold Edition
Although it’s having a bit of a hard time looking after its own finances, that didn’t stop Nokia from splurging on some gold and subsequently …
Google Chrome Beta becomes official for Mac
Is Safari beginning to eat away at your patience? Firefox for Mac crashing and burning every time you’re in the middle of some important task? …
Apple tablet rumored to enter production in February, ship as early as March
We try and steer clear of Apple tablet rumors as best as we can, but the latest is too good to pass up, especially considering …
Don't want to wait for the Motorola DROID OTA?
Well, you don’t have to. We’ve tested this out ourselves, and here are the instructions if you’d like to venture into the wild and try …
Android isn't so hot in Europe, Nokia and Symbian still number one
Google still has a ways to go in Europe where Symbian reigns supreme. Although Europeans easily recognize the Google brand, Android itself is still pretty …
Samsung details Bada, its new mobile phone platform
Last month Samsung announced that it would be dropping Symbian from its handsets and replacing it with its own mobile platform, Bada. Initial details on …
Dell's Twitter account generates $6.5 million in revenue over 2 years
Twitter.com may not have a revenue model in place, but that isn’t stopping other companies from making some green off of the social networking site. …
HTC Bravo is the HTC Passion, will launch in the US in January 2010?
The HTC Bravo made its appearance in HTC’s recently leaked roadmap with a launch date of April 2010. Rocking almost identical specifications, the Bravo is …
Google Goggles searches by image, twists our tongues
We’ve been dreaming about being able to take a picture of a place or thing, send it to Google and have the mother-of-all-search tell us …
VMware outline plans for dual OS virtualization on mobile phones
Not satisfied with merely dual-booting two operating systems on a mobile phone, VMware is developing virtualization technology that allows two operating systems to run simultaneously …
"Google Favorite Places" gives QR barcodes to businesses
Today, Google announced a new service that it will be giving to popular businesses around the country, a service to be called “Google Favorite Places,” …
What happened to being cool?
Avril Lavigne. Luke Wilson. Whoopi Goldberg. Those three names don’t exactly jump out and immediately connect with us when we see them. And isn’t that …
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 heading to AT&T and T-Mobile?
There is word floating around that Sony Ericsson is planning on two variants of the XPERIA X10. While it’s far from confirmed, it appears as …
AT&T releases Mark the Spot, a network failure reporting tool
Poor AT&T, it must be tired of being tied to the whipping post and constantly flogged in the media for its abysmal network performance. To …
Bell to launch Nokia N97 on the 10th
In recent years, Canada’s Bell has done a good job of transforming its image of a boring carrier with humdrum handsets to a fiercely competitive …
HTC's 1H 2010 portfolio leaked, pictured and spec'd
If you live and die by HTC, you might be very excited to know that the company’s portfolio for the first half of 2010 has …
