The middle of December 2009 concluded what was expected to be the final round of Rogers/Fido local calling area reductions. Wrong.

Effective March 15, 2010, Rogers/Fido are further reducing Local Calling Areas across Canada.

What does this mean?

Local Calling Areas (LCA) are invisible geographic boundaries that determine which calls are billed as local calls and which calls are billed as long distance calls. Your LCA is the geographic area in … Read More

The Vancouver 2010 Olympics are just days away and we have another iPhone/iPod Touch app that users can share their national pride with!

Vancouver Cheers by Absolunet

Vancouver Cheers allows users to choose their country flag and share their national pride. The app flashes the chosen country flag and the word “GO” in a strobe light fashion.

The app also tracks the number of users that are cheering for a particular country. … Read More

I can definitely tell that the Olympics are close as the Olympic-Country pride apps are being released everywhere!

iCheer – Country by Rocky Mountain Mobile Software

Are you going to the Olympics in Vancouver? If so, or even not, iCheer – Country may be your cheering companion.

The nice feature about this app is that it is flexible in that the app itself is not entirely Olympic themed. In other words, iCheer … Read More

Effective February 9, 2010 , Rogers will no longer be offering “Freedom of Speech” (FOS) on any term plans. This means that any customers activating on any monthly, 1, 2 or 3-year term service agreement on or after February 9, 2010 will no longer receive one month of unlimited local calling.

Prior to February 9, 2010, Rogers gave customers one month of unlimited local calling as a bonus for … Read More

Today Apple seeded a new build of OS X 10.6.3, build 10D548. The last seed, build number 10D538, was just released on January 22, 2010.

According to reports, today’s build provides a number of enhancements for QuickTime X, 64-bit, OpenGL, and Logic.

The first 10.6.3 build was seeded in early January and the builds seem to be getting released closer and closer together. This may be an indicator of a soon … Read More

Bell has launched three new price plans as a promotion during the 2010 Winter Games.

The plans are available to new Bell customers on a 3-year term and also to existing Bell customers who renew on a 3-year term.

The plans do not offer as much value has Bell’s Smartphone/iPhone Combo plans and the 3-year requirement is rather odd for being “Olympic plans” since that really only allows Canadians to signing … Read More

ContactFlow made its iPhone/iPod Touch debut in Cydia. Since then, the app has now moved to the App Store and is available for free (see last paragraph) for all iPhone/iPod Touch owners!

ContactFlow by Fabien FOULON

Jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch users, and especially first gen iPhone owners, would have remembered ContactFlow. Maybe you’re still using it? Well the app is now officially supported through the App Store.

With ContactFlow, users can navigate through … Read More

In November 2009, Apple introduced a new subtle feature to the iTunes ecosystem. It was called “iTunes Preview” and it was a web based preview for iTunes links that users clicked on websites to open music in iTunes.

At the time, iTunes Preview only worked for music, but the functionality has now been expanded to Applications.

Before iTunes Preview, when a user would select an iTunes link in a web browser, the … Read More

SIM Cards, or Subscriber Identification Modules, are the small smart cards that sit inside our iPhones and give us our connection to the cellular network. SIM Cards also come free with a phone/device purchase.

Normally SIM cards have a long life, usually in excess of five years, but sometimes they “burn out” or are defective. When the SIM card does not work, this usually requires a trip to the carrier store … Read More

CIBC has launched a mobile banking application where users can access their account, pay bills, find branches, and more.

CIBC Mobile Banking by CIBC

Customers of CIBC will be happy to know that CIBC now has a rather fantastic app for iPhone/iPod Touch users. The only requirement is CIBC customers must have online banking enabled on their account (if you can see your account on CIBC.com, you’re set).

With the CIBC … Read More