When RIM launched their proprietary BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) instant messaging application, it was nothing more than a convenient, secure way for business men around the office to keep in touch with each other using their monthly allotted data plan to chat without the annoyance of filling their already saturated email inbox’s with short sentences as well as [...]

I make no bones about how much amusement I get at the expense of Apple fanbois, and I have poked fun at both them and Steve Jobs many times before. With that said, I have a hearty respect for the man who was, in part, instrumental in creating the technological and mobile world we currently [...]

Almost 3 years ago to date RIM launched their first entry into the all-touch smartphone world with the BlackBerry Storm 9500 series phone. It was set to be RIM’s much needed and anticipated response to Apple’s iPhone and was rumored for a while before finally seeing the light of day (as are all devices conceived [...]

I have had the dubious pleasure of being saddled with a BlackBerry Curve 8530 as my work device for the better part of 2 years, having snagged one the moment they were released by Telus. Originally, this device was the Prozac I used to get through the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder inflicted on me by the [...]

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Live from the “LG Affair” at 99 Sudbury in Toronto

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May 12, 2024

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Another day, another glorious product launch party. Today’s event features two hot devices itching to hit the Canadian market: the LG Optimus 2X; a dual-core, Android 2.2 powered smartphone, which features many drool worthy attributes other than its 4″ WVGA LCD touch screen — which is uber hot in its own right. And yes, [...]

Review: GeeReader - A FREE PlayBook RSS Client That Syncs With GoogleReader

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May 12, 2024

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One of the first things I looked for and downloaded when I got my PlayBook was a good RSS app that would import my GoogleReader feeds and sync with GoogleReader so when I got back to my computer things I had already read would be marked as such and only new things would be there [...]

Virgin Mobile Canada Releases HTC Incredible S & Ovation MC547 In Time For Father’s Day

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May 11, 2024

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Just in time for Father’s Day, Virgin Mobile Canada announced today they were releasing two new devices: the Android powered HTC Incredible S and the Novatel Ovation MC547. The HTC Incredible S is a powerful new device which runs Android 2.2 with HTC Sense. According to the press release this phone is powerful enough to [...]

Angry Birds hits Chrome store; goes live in celebration, sort of [Video]

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May 11, 2024

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Damn this year is flying by. With CES, CTIA, MWC, BlackBerry World, and now Google’s I/O conference over, us bloggers get some time to doing something we haven’t done in a while: relax. What better way to relax than with a lil’ Angry Birds on your desktop to help the time fly by? Yup, you [...]

LiveProfile for BlackBerry Updates Again & Again To v1.0.15 [Changelog]

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May 11, 2024

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LiveProfile has been very busy updating their app continually over the past few weeks and it seems a trend of constant improvement for the app is developing. I saw a tweet had gone out from the LiveProfile account announcing v1.0.13′s release. I opened the app to do the update and got the pop-up below urging [...]

Google I/O: Day 2

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May 11, 2024

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  Google I/O started today by demonstrating improvements to the “Chrome” browser. Improvements on the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) and demonstrations of online applications, such as Tinkercad, started off the keynote. They spoke of the success of the “Chrome Web Store”, announced that the store would give the developer 95% of the revenue (keeping only [...]

Samsung Announces David Beckham As 2012 Olympic Games Ambassador

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May 10, 2024

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Samsung Electronics announced today that in their capacity as the Worldwide Olympic Partner for Wireless Communications Equipment that they have signed an exclusive agreement with world famous soccer superstar and icon David Beckham to be its global brand ambassador for the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Effective immediately Beckham will begin his ambassadorial role and [...]

Google I/O: Day 1 Summary

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May 10, 2024

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The Google I/O keynote for day one was Android-heavy. It started off by revealing the sales figures for the operating system then continued by revealing new features for Honeycomb 3.1, which include expanding the task switcher to include more apps, a way the view the most recently opened apps quickly and a function that will [...]

Apple: The World’s Most Valuable Brand

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May 10, 2024

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Apple has surpassed Google to be considered the world’s most valuable brand at $135 billion according to Millward Brown Optimor and fortune 500 has placed it #35 most revenue-earning companies in the world. These are big titles for Apple who, earlier today it was revealed that they’re the number 2 smartphone makers, and are closing in [...]

BlackBerry Touch 9860 (Monaco/Monza) Exposes Itself Online

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May 10, 2024

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Ok I get it now; announce 1 device at BlackBerry World, then — as stated — start leaking them gradually (and slowly) during the weeks and months leading up to anything official. Riiiight. Anyways, what you are looking at are the keys that will line the bottom of the forthcoming BlackBerry 9860 touchscreen device; the [...]

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