It came down to the wire; 3 lovable animals, all bringing a unique marketing angle: the Saw Whet Owl, the Otter, and the Pot Belly Pig. 460, 000 of you voted your choice, but only 1 could be crowned victorious as the new critter for Telus - say hello to the The Saw Whet Owl! [...]

The day of reckoning is upon us. No, I’m not talking about the supposed “rapture”, I am talking about the phenomena we know as facebook and how it’s about to become even further embedded into our everyday meanderings with the introduction of the first ever facebook phone in Canada - the INQ Cloud Touch, exclusively [...]

Good morning everyone! We are live here for day two of the Canadian Telecom Summit at the Toronto Congress Center and things are about to get underway. Today’s keynotes include: Robert Depatie - President and CEO of Videotron Konrad Von Finckenstein - Chair of the CRTC Robert McFarlane - Executive VP and CFO of TELUS [...]

Last week, we told you about Best Buy Canada’s Free Phone Friday deal. This week is the last week of the Free Phone Friday fun as it is only a month of May thing and Best Buy sure is ending this special set of deals in style! In case you don’t remember the details, let’s [...]

All this month Best Buy Canada is offering a specially priced - FREE - phone every Friday when you sign a new 3 year contract. It changes every week and we are happy to be the ones to bring you the inside scoop earlier than anyone else. Tomorrow, when you sign up for a 3 year [...]

Hot off the presses from the boys at Research In Motion (RIM) in Waterloo, Ontario is news that the BlackBerry Trade-up Program is now available in Canada! Previously seen in the USA and launched in February 2011 now existing Canadian BlackBerry customers who purchase a new BlackBerry can get up to $120 back for trading [...]

    A new show is coming to TV sets near you brought to you by a partnership between Blink Media Works (a Production Agency) and well known Canadian telecommunications giant TELUS. The idea behind the show is that with so many apps out there, the public needs someone on TV to provide a weekly digest featuring the useful [...]

CES is a not-to-distant memory now, and the highlight of it -The Motorola Xoom — and all its HoneyComb (Android 3.0) powered goodness has finally been announced on this side of the pond. Excited? so am I. The release calls for a WiFi-only version to launch in April, and a GSM variant “mid-way through 2011″ [...]

This past Friday saw devastation hit Japan with one of the worlds worst natural disasters ever recorded; an earthquake that measured 9.0 on the Richter scale and a Tsunami that destroyed everything in its path, separated children from their families, and sees the death toll rising daily. It’s at times like this, when people are [...]

4G, one of the most commonly used and mis-understood marketing terms in the mobile industry today. While we could get into the argument of what is “true” 4G, and why the name is being over-used more than Charlie Sheen’s “Winning”, that isn’t really the point of this post. This morning, Telus invited a few of [...]