It seems like we don’t hear much about MiFi’s anymore. Most smartphones ship with a personal hotspot function that emulates a MiFi, and thankfully our carriers here in Canada allow personal hotspot use at no extra charge. So it’s a tough time for the MiFi, having its purpose emulated by the smartphone everyone is already [...]

Thanks to the popularity of the personal hotspot feature in smartphones, wireless MiFi’s don’t get much attention these days. Novatel and Bell are hoping to change that with the introduction of the MiFi 2, the “world’s first touchscreen mobile hotspot” that will launch on Bell’s 4G LTE network in March. At Mobile World Congress in [...]

FreedomPop has been making a name for themselves lately in the most disruptive way possible: undercutting the carriers by offering 500MB of free 4G data without any agreements, fees, or gimmicks. Their service is great, works and has received plenty of attention because of it. The only REAL downside to their offering (other than being [...]

  The switch has been thrown today turning on free, unlimited Wi-Fi in more than 1,000 McDonald’s Restaurants across Canada to encourage a better experience for all of McDonald’s’ customers. The Wi-Fi hotspots have been put into place and is being operated by Bell who are also one of Canada’s largest retail hotspot provider. The [...]

Sources of BGR are telling them that today at 10AM Pacific Time (1PM Eastern Time) Apple will be making available for download via iTunes the latest version of iOS - 4.3 - which was announced in conjunction with the iPad 2 last week. As well, there is new information on the number of hotspots the [...]