Stories by Gary Ng

What's new on The Roku Channel in Canada for November 2022? Streaming free on The Roku Channel today is the debut of the Weird Al Yankovic biopic, plus more. Check out the full list below to see what's free on The Roku Channel in Canada for this month: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story All The...

Amazon has announced Prime Video will exclusively stream The Continental, a prequel series based on the action franchise, John Wick. The Continental will stream on Prime Video in Canada, confirmed the company in an email, along with areas outside the U.S., Middle East and Israel in 2023. Produced by Lionsgate Television, The Continental is "told...

Apple has debuted its annual holiday gift guide and for 2022, it says you'll be able to "find the perfect gift to knock their stockings off." The company has highlighted its newest products of course as holiday gift purchases, including: iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus featuring impressive battery life and a new dual-camera system....

Apple has launched retail sales of its new Apple TV 4K in Canada today, with in-store pick up available at its retail locations and other partners. This new Apple TV 4K comes with a slightly smaller design, gets a processor upgrade to A15 Bionic, double the storage and also a lower starting price. Also new...

Earlier today, it was reported Elon Musk was set to reduce Twitter’s workforce by 50% as soon as this Friday, and now it appears those steps are starting to take place. Twitter sent out a memo to employees on Thursday evening, detailing what’s going to happen on Friday, reports The Verge. The memo starts off...

Back in August 2020, the $49.8 million Canadian CRT class action settlement announced it was ready to start sending out payments, 21 months after the case was approved. The class action was related to alleged price-fixing by numerous makers of cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors in Canada, involving companies such as Samsung, Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi,...

Update Nov. 3, 9:18pm PDT: Public Mobile's website is back up. "We are pleased to report the systems outage issue is fixed. We thank you for your patience and support as we worked to get our site pages up and running," said Public Mobile in an update. == Telus prepaid brand Public Mobile saw parts...

The price increases for streaming services aren’t stopping anytime soon, it appears. The latest price hike has now hit customers of Paramount+ Canada, with both monthly and annual prices jumping significantly. Paramount+ Canada announced a price increase on November 1 from $5.99 CAD to $9.99 CAD per month, an increase of 67%. The annual subscription...

Twitter plans to charge an $8 USD per month subscription price for its Twitter Blue service, expected to come next week. This revamped Twitter Blue service will also include the coveted verification checkmark, essentially confirming an account’s identity. Twitter will make all new and existing users pay $8 USD if they want verification, a move...

Telus recently started charging a 1.5% fee for customers paying bills with their Visa or Mastercard, a move the company recently called “just and reasonable." Now, according to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the regulator clarifies Telus doesn’t need permission to charge most of its customers. “It is really restricted to some rural...

Interbrand released its Best Global Brands 2022 report today, and Apple again remained the top global brand, according to the research company. Apple’s ‘brand value’ stands at $482,215,000,000 according to Interbrand, seeing 18% growth year-over-year. "Apple helps us Connect, Do, Belong, Play, Pay and – more recently – Thrive. Rumour has it that soon it...

Elon Musk’s revamp of Twitter subscription services are said to officially launch week, reports unnamed sources speaking to Bloomberg. First teased as a $20 monthly service for verification, it was revealed yesterday an increase to Twitter Blue at $8 per month would allow anyone to get verification, plus other new features. Part of the new...