Stories by Austin Blake

Apple introduced two new chips on Tuesday alongside the refreshed Mac mini and Mac Studio, and the company is not being subtle about it. The press release calls M6 an extraordinary leap and describes M5 Ultra as staggering, while the Mac Studio it powers gets billed as the most powerful Mac ever built, which of...

Apple announced a new Mac mini on Tuesday with M6 chip and one with M5 Pro (skipping M5). Pre-orders are open now, with the desktop arriving September 22. The news comes on the heels of a rumoured Mac mini refresh reported by Mark Gurman last night, and yup the reporting was right again. The Canadian...

Apple has walked back part of a change to its disposable email features, and it is a win for everyone that pushed back in June. Back on June 17, Apple told developers that Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email would both be merged onto one shared domain, private.icloud.com. That plan would have...

Ottawa is putting more than $8.3 million CAD into two projects that will bring high-speed internet to up to 822 households in five Indigenous and remote Ontario communities, including 621 Indigenous homes, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada said on August 24. The announcement was made on Christian Island at Beausoleil First Nation. The money...

A truck damaged a fibre line in southern Labrador on August 24, knocking out cellular, internet, and residential phone service, Bell Aliant said on X. The outage also cut 911 calling in the region. Bell Aliant told residents who need emergency help to go in person to the nearest hospital, police station, or fire department....

A Toronto couple spent four days on hold, in chat, and in Rogers stores trying to cancel a $140 CAD internet plan, according to the Toronto Star. Sarah Brooks and Nick Williams were moving into a new house in the Junction and figured cancelling Brooks' condo internet would take a day. Instead they hit dropped...

Apple just sent iOS 27 developer beta 7 to testers, a week after beta 6, with macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 7 landing at the same time.

Bell recently started gifting free Crave Premium subscriptions to select satellite TV customers, according to iPhone in Canada readers. Emails obtained show Bell informing customers that they get Crave Premium for $0/month (normally $22/month), which works out to $264 per year plus taxes in value. A Premium subscription offers up to 4K video quality, streaming...

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved Bell Canada's plan to withdraw its Channels for Program Transmission service, but pushed the final kill date to December 1, 2026, in a decision published August 21. It is also the latest in a busy stretch of CRTC and Bell friction, after the Commission demanded answers...

Amazon has raised prices on a string of its own gadgets in Canada, according to checks by iPhone in Canada on Saturday, after Fortune reported in an exclusive that the company quietly hiked U.S. list prices overnight across Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero and an Amazon spokeswoman confirmed the moves. Echo speakers, Kindles, Fire...

The saga of Toronto Tempo guard Marina Mabrey and her unstable Rogers home internet just took a turn, and Bell is the one making the play. Yesterday, Bell slid into her mentions on X with an offer: "Hey @mmabrey1, we want to put an offer on the table. Let's connect. 🏀" Bell shared a poster...

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is looking into why residents across Manitoba received a flood of emergency wireless alerts during a severe storm earlier this summer. The CRTC sent letters to Bell, Rogers, and Telus, as well as Pelmorex Corp., which manages the Alert Ready system. The regulator is asking the companies to...