Stories by Austin Blake

BritBox has released its list of new titles coming to the British streaming servince in July 2025. Highlights include Code of Silence, the dark comedy Pigs and also Outrageous. Check out the full list of new shows coming to BritBox in July 2025 below: July 4 QI (V) Season 23 – BritBox Exclusive | 14...

After Rogers launched a Canada Day promo plan with 158GB of data (to match Canada’s upcoming 158th birthday), Bell has now come out with the same plan. Bell’s matching offer is their Ultimate 100 plan, which is $65 per month with 100GB of data. But a 58GB bonus takes it to 158GB total data at...

Apple is making its biggest attempt yet to break into blockbuster filmmaking with F1, its high-budget racing drama starring Brad Pitt. The company reportedly shelled out close to a whopping $250 million USD (about $341 million CAD) to land the project—outspending other studios during a bidding process, according to The Wall Street Journal. The film,...

Telus is calling out rivals Bell and Rogers for what it describes as anti-competitive behaviour that’s hurting consumers and limiting competition in Canada’s telecom and TV markets. At the ongoing CRTC hearings today, June 26, Telus said the Canadian broadcasting market has changed dramatically, especially since Rogers acquired Shaw and a new wholesale internet framework...

Rogers recently launched a new promo plan leveraging Canada Day celebrations, offering 158GB of data, matching our nation’s birthdays. The Canada Day Offer is the company’s Essentials 5G+ plan for new activations, which is priced at $65 per month after auto-pay and bring your own device. It includes data speeds of up to 250 Mbps...

Last week, OnePlus announced its new Watch 3 in 43mm is coming to Canada in July, alongside its new OnePlus Buds 4. On Thursday, the company shared new details about the smaller Watch 3. The new 43mm model offers the same features as the larger Watch 3 but in a more compact design. It has...

Earlier today there was a short Rogers outage that affected many customers nationwide, according to reports online from customers and third-party tracking sites like Downdetector. Many customers said signals just disappeared and iPhones started to show SOS (those that support Apple's Emergency SOS via Satellite). The Rogers outage affected cellphone and internet services. Many were...

Google is pushing back hard against the idea that YouTube should be regulated like traditional TV, telling the CRTC that Canada’s outdated broadcast rules have no place in today’s open and user-driven internet. Speaking at today’s June 25 CRTC hearing, Arun Krishnamurti, Senior Counsel with Google Canada, warned the Commission against forcing old regulatory tools...

Netflix Canada has released its list of new shows and movies coming to the streaming service in July 2025. Highlights include the exclusive premiere of Happy Gilmore 2 on July 25, classic film Forrest Gump arrives on July 5 and the WWE Evolution live event on July 25. Check out the full list of what's...

A new federal government report says that Chinese government-backed hackers—known in the cybersecurity world as Salt Typhoon—broke into the network of a Canadian telecom company earlier this year. Chinese hackers used a known flaw in Cisco equipment (called CVE-2023-20198) to snoop around, change settings, and potentially spy on data flowing through the system, sometime before...

Cogeco is calling on the CRTC to clamp down on Canada’s largest telecom and media companies, accusing them of abusing their dominance and threatening the survival of smaller distributors. The company made these statements at the CRTC's hearing on June 20. “We are dealing with large vertically integrated players who own a large number of...

Google Earth is marking its 20th anniversary with a couple of big updates that change how people explore the planet. Starting June 24, users will be able to access historical Street View imagery directly in Google Earth, letting anyone virtually time-travel through past views of cities and neighbourhoods. This feature became popular last year on...