Mobilicity’s first city-based, unlimited mobile network recently launched with six simple, unlimited plans. The handset options are modest – for now – but the company can boast a solid 3.5G network built by Ericsson, with Amdocs handling operations.
The NPD Group claims that Google’s Android operating system has overtaken Apple’s iPhone, with RIM’s BlackBerry remaining as the most popular smartphone OS. Is this a narrow view of one battle, or harbinger of the unthinkable, with Apple losing the smartphone war?
Tony Clement, Canada’s Industry Minister, wants input from the public as part of a nationwide consultation on Canada's digital economy intended to inform a government action plan, due out in late 2011.
At EMC World in Boston, Mass, Pat Gelsinger, EMC’s president and COO for infrastructure products, announced a big move toward the “private cloud”: the ability to federate globally distributed storage arrays into a single system using the companies VPLEX appliance technology.
The CRTC is demanding some minor changes to Mobilicity’s ownership and control structure, but the new wireless carrier has no issues with the requests and is all set to launch in Toronto this spring.
In a significant win for Canada’s big internet service providers (ISPs), the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has ruled that Bell Canada and Bell Aliant can charge both retail and wholesale customers based on how much they download each month.
Responding to consumer demand, Skype Ltd is going ahead with a public beta of a group video chat function. The free feature will let up to five people participate in a video call simultaneously. But will this appeal to businesses?
The batteries in some of Rogers' and Bell Canada’s MiFi 2372 units are malfunctioning, forcing the companies to recall units and replace both the battery and battery cover.
A recent SAS/Leger Marketing survey has found that 47% of Canadian executives say the amount of information they have overwhelms them, and that public sector executives are 20% more likely to suffer from information overload than private.
Research in Motion cracks into the top five cell phone makers, builds out enterprise voice over Wi-Fi, aims for 100 million users, and releases video teaser of BlackBerry OS 6.
An analysis that shows global emerging markets growing at a steady clip, and mature markets creeping out of recession despite Greece's debt, misses one modest exception: the Bank of Canada now projects that the Canadian economy will grow a faster-than-expected 3.7% this year. In January the Bank had forecast that the economy would grow 2.9% in 2010.
A virtual, whistle-stop tour of the world, comprising snapshots of what’s going on in different regions or countries that illustrate, or sometimes alter, our impression of the overall picture there. At the very least, they present a starting point from which to gain a more in-depth understanding of local markets.
The Israeli IT market is growing at a five year CAGR of 6%, IBM invests in Israeli cleantech start ups, the iPad gets the green light, and Ottawa’s Enablence acquires Israel’s Teledata Networks.
PricewaterhouseCoopers reported that Canadian organizations are eight per cent less likely to know if they've had a security incident compared to their global counterparts, the security SaaS market grew 70% in 2009, RSA launches a cybercrime intelligence service for enterprises, Juniper Networks shows off, and Cisco Systems donates network security solution to Concordia University.
In a widely expected move, Public Mobile Inc. has had its ownership structure conditionally approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
Wind Mobile lands second retail distribution deal, the Apple iPhone 4 is confirmed to come to Canada on July 30th, and Telus is set to launch Android-powered Motorola i1 this autumn.
Apple Inc.’s CEO Steve Jobs, after repeating that the company “wasn’t perfect”, has offered free cases and refunds for customers unhappy about the iPhone 4’s performance.
In a submission for Industry Canada’s digital economy consultation, the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting has said that the CRTC could be reduced from 12 commissioners to 5, and that Canada’s four biggest cable companies should contribute 10% of their revenues to cultural funds such as the Canada Media Fund (CMF).
In this business the two most difficult companies for the media to get a hold of are Apple Corp and Research in Motion. So, when Apple said Wednesday that it will hold a news conference Friday concerning its iPhone 4, that’s news.
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry tablet will be a 7" device, with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, a slide-out keyboard with a 1GHz processor, two cameras for video conferencing, and...Flash 10.1.
Research In Motion's BlackBerry 6 OS, set for release this summer, boasts a revised interface and new features like multi-touch support, “kinetic scrolling”, a new home screen, and social media feeds, but it is still playing catch-up to the iPhone.
As poor iPhone 4 product reviews buffet Apple Corp – specifically a seemingly inevitable recall to solve reception problems – the company is feeling the heat from Google’s Android platform, which is set to shine where Apple dominates: music and media.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees of the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference that Microsoft is committed to bringing new tablets and smartphones to the market. But is it too little, too late?
The new App Inventor for Android, a Google Labs program for Windows, OS X, and Linux, should make building Android programs as easy as snapping together a Lego toy.
Only weeks after launching its Kin One and Kin Two with Verizon Wireless, and days after Verizon halved prices, Microsoft has cancelled further development of the devices.
At Cisco Live on June 29, Cisco Systems unwrapped “Cius”, a "mobile collaboration business tablet” that offers HD video capabilities - and Microsoft was nowhere to be seen.
Shipments of Wi-Fi enterprise access points topped 800,000 in the first quarter of 2010, according to the latest market data from ABI Research. The firm estimates that enterprise-class wireless access point shipments should achieve 11.6 million units by the end of 2015.
Bruce Hyer, the MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North, tabled Bill C-560, the Cellphone Freedom Act, which would force cellphone carriers to unlock all the devices they sell.
Independent retailers have traditionally been technology laggards, but this slow adoption of new technology has provided hidden benefits. Economies of scale are achieved at larger retail stores, and the new technologies become available to independent retailers at much lower costs. Today, independent retailers have access to point-of-sale systems with features comparable to large competitors. The costs of these systems are often hundreds of times less than the investment made by the large retail chains.
