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The Cellular Guru Weekly Roundup 5/23-5/29

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Major LiveProfile Server Upgrades Performed, BlackBerry App Hits v1.0.18 A Couple of iPhone 5 Rumors REVIEW: WINDspeed data stick E1691 by Huawei Virgin Mobile Canada Announces Deals For Parents Wanting To Give New Graduates A Present Apple Writes a Letter to Lodsys Best Buy Canada’s Final Free Phone Friday Phone Specials…WOW! LiveProfile Updates Android, BlackBerry, [...]

Review: Sim City Deluxe for iPad

  The audience of PC gamers has generally been known to be more patient than their console gamer counterparts. Games such as “Civilization” and “Starcraft,” which require much more time and, especially with the latter, many hours of reading and watching video tutorials to become reasonably adequate at it. Despite motions to adapt the games [...]

Analyst: RIM to lose consumer market

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Another day, another bad forecast from an industry analyst; today’s comes courtesy of Matthew Robison with Wunderlich Securities. Robison claims that RIM will lose the consumer appeal it has worked so hard to build over the last few years. Robison was quoted saying: “Our long-term forecast anticipates a role supplying business-oriented devices, both mid-range and high end, [...]

ProTip: Don’t Mess With Apple

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  You would think that people would learn from others’ misfortunes when it comes to messing with Apple and their infamous legal team, but apparently not. Remember last years infamous iPhone 4 scoop and the drama it bestowed on a lowly blogger named Jason Chen formerly of Gizmodo? The man became a celebrity for breaking [...]

WIND Mobile’s Best Conversation Ever Contest: First Winner Revealed

WIND Mobile’s contest is simple: it asks people, “if you could talk to anyone in the world who would it be and why?” Today, high school entrepreneurship teacher Barbara McKinnon was given her wish to speak to Canadian business maverick and philanthropist, W. Brett Wilson. McKinnon was under the impression that the conversation would take [...]

Mobilicity Axes 3 Top Executives

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Despite releasing an arsenal of killer devices, and recently celebrating one year in the Canadian wireless industry; sometimes with good news, follows bad. Word has it that Mobilicity has just let go of part of their marketing team, as well as a few senior directors. Names known to have been let go are: Doug Perry (Vice [...]

Myth: The Canadian Wireless Industry Is Self-Regulated

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You hear it time and time again from all different sources: the Canadian wireless industry is self-regulating. Some people use it as a complaint, saying that the state of affairs is terrible and that it is because there is no regulation that the Canadian consumer is being trampled on. They say that because the Canadian wireless [...]

UK Officially bans 3 Year Wireless Contracts; your move CRTC…

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So it’s official, at least overseas: 3 year wireless contracts are illegal as per the independent governing body of UK telecom, Ofcom. Even more, there needs to be an option for customers of 12 months or less. They (Ofcom) were quoted saying “shorter contracts are likely to promote competition and enable consumers to switch providers more [...]

OtterBox Releases New Defender & Commuter Series Cases For Latest Android Devices

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We just got word from popular device and gadget cover/case maker OtterBox that they have updated their lineup to include some of the latest and greatest Android devices from HTC, Motorola, and Samsung. New released covers are available for the HTC ThunderBolt, HTC DROID Incredible 2, HTC Desire S, DROID X2 by Motorola and Samsung [...]

HTC to begin producing 10-inch Honeycomb powered LTE “Puccini” tablets?

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Another day, another forthcoming tablet announcement; today’s courtesy of our friends over at HTC. Word has it they will begin production of a 10.1-inch “Puccini” tablet - which will run Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and be powered by a Qualcomm MSM8660 1.5GHz processor - as early as this June. Sources at the supply chain also stated the [...]

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