Stories by John Quintet

Bell is actively addressing a widespread wireless outage affecting its customers roaming internationally, as reported by the company in updates shared over recent days. Today, June 29, Bell provided an update to say, "We are continuing to make good progress on the intermittent service disruption affecting customers traveling internationally that has been impacting multiple wireless...

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has launched a public consultation on Google's exemption application under the Online News Act, formerly known as Bill C-18. The Online News Act, which received Royal Assent last June and came into force in December, aims to bring fair compensation for Canadian news organizations by online platforms that...

Amazon’s Prime Video has released its list of new titles and movies coming to the streaming service for July 2024. School’s out for summer so that means kids and families are looking for more to watch. A Prime Day deal from July 5-17 will offer moves for rent or purchase for up to 50% off....

Uber has announced the launch of the "One Less Car" trial in Canada, which wants Canadians to reduce their reliance on their car while using alternative transportation methods instead. Uber says there are over 26 million private cars on the roads in Canada. The trial is seeking 40 residents from Toronto and Vancouver to give...

Bell has shared its list of what’s new on Crave for July 2024. Highlights include the movie premiere of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, plus the HBO original documentary Quad Gods. Also new in July is the fourth season of Snowpiercer and the movie premiere of The Book of Clarence. As expected with summer...

Freedom Mobile looks to be in the spirit of giving just ahead of the summer break, as some customers are getting a notification that they are lucky recipients of 30GB of free monthly U.S. data, talk and text. The text message sent out to select customers says, “big news!” And explains they have “gifted your...

OpenAI has shared an update on the highly anticipated ChatGPT Voice Mode, which was demonstrated during the company’s Spring Update. Initially planned for an alpha release to a select group of ChatGPT Plus users in late June, the rollout has been delayed by one month to further improve quality control. "We had planned to start...

Google has announced new updates to its Chrome browser, aimed at making the mobile search experience better for users on iOS and Android devices. Chrome on iOS will soon feature new Chrome Actions, enabling users to quickly engage with local businesses. When searching for a restaurant, users will see shortcut buttons in the search results...

Apple has extended its Diagnostics for Self Service Repair software to 32 European nations, including the U.K., France, Germany, and the Netherlands today. Also part of today’s announcement? Apple says Canada will get Self Service Repair too—but not until next year (hopefully it’s not late 2025). Talk about an early announcement and tease. The company...

Google has announced it will be holding a special event in August. That’s according to invites it has sent out to media on Tuesday. This Made by Google event will “showcase the best of Google AI, Android software and the Pixel portfolio of devices,” reads the invite, which says the event will take place on...

The federal and Ontario governments have announced a joint investment of over $97 million to expand high-speed Internet access to underserved areas in Ontario, including Indigenous communities. Back in July 2021, both governments unveiled a Canada–Ontario broadband partnership to support large-scale, fibre-based projects, aiming to provide high-speed Internet access to nearly 280,000 households across Ontario....

Apple has released the second beta of iOS 18 and more today for developers and testers. The first beta of iOS 18 was released last week at Apple's WWDC keynote. Here’s what’s available for download right now, besides iOS 18 beta 2: iPadOS 18 beta 2 (22A5297f) macOS 15 beta 2 (24A5279h) tvOS 18 beta...