Back in 2008, Swedish start-up Spotify aimed to change the way we listen - and engage - with music. As you could expect, they did extraordinarily well, and with added funding, then launched in the United States. According to Spotify’s annual account filing the streaming music service has plans to now enter Canada. It ‘should’ be available [...]

In a move to expand the market, RIM has gone ahead and expanded the PlayBook video store out of just the United States, announcing today a Canadian roll-out. In an email this morning direct from RIM, it was noted that PlayBook users in Canada can now watch movies and TV shows on their tablet. The BlackBerry [...]

Wow how time flies. Next month Rogers will celebrate a milestone: one year live with their LTE coverage in Canada, which kick-started in Ottawa, ON. Many city launches later, they now offer LTE to 12 million Canadians and will cover 60 per cent of the population this year - just staggering. Now onto the best [...]

As culturally different - and proud of it - as we Canadians are, whether you’re from the East coast or West coast, one thing we can all agree on is that our winters are cold and unforgiving. Yes, we do get have our waves of warmth from time to time (like now in Toronto), but [...]

Well, well, well. This just made my day. We are just a day away from the official announcement of the Galaxy Nexus..or Nexus Prime, (who knows) and look what we have here. You Canadians ready? The Canadian version of the much anticipated Galaxy Nexus(GT-I9250M) has been spotted in the Wi-Fi Alliance database. How do we [...]

That didn’t take long. Apple is reporting pre-orders of the iPhone 4S have already reached over 1 million, how does this stand up to the iPhone 4? iPhone 4S shattered the iPhone 4 pre-orders which were 600,000. Canada, US, UK, Australia, France and Germany are included in the 1 million plus.   The iPhone 4S [...]

So, my dear readers, are you happy now? You can finally resume breathing, eating, sleeping and working normally now that you know the only new device launching from Apple, so far, is the iPhone 4S - like it or not. As for price points and release, it’ll go a lil’ somethin’ like this: 16GB for $199, [...]

Earlier this year, Google launched YouTube Movies in the US as a NetFlix competitior for on-demand streaming video rentals. The company announced today that they will be entering the Canadian market opposite Netflix, offering their services to Canadians. Movie rentals will be available for $3.99 to $4.99, with the rental good for 30 days from [...]

  Update: Late last night - and shortly after publishing this post - TheCellularGuru.com was personally approached by Mobilicity CEO Dave Dobbin who assured that any rumors going around of Mobilicity’s financial pains are simply just that, rumors. Since securing their 250 Million dollar round of funding back in April the company continues to thrive in the very [...]

Last year, Canada’s first ever Android conference took place in Toronto, ON dubbed AndroidTO. The event was an overwhelming success, and the organizers have brought it back again, bigger and better than before. For anyone who is interested in Android development, or a fan of the Android platform as a whole, this event has a [...]