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Ice Wireless and its parent Iristel still do not send Canada's Alert Ready wireless emergency alerts to phones on their LTE networks. The CRTC ruled on Thursday that the company must turn the system on within 12 months, and warn customers in the meantime. Iristel had asked for relief from the wireless public alerting rule...

Samsung Canada is leaning into the foldable screen drama with a new ad campaign that puts bright crack-like lines across polished lifestyle photos, according to Samsung in an email to iPhone in Canada on Friday. The company says the creative is "making a playful reference to the latest developments in the foldable market", without ever...

November is almost here, and the holiday movies are already lining up. A new month means another list of what’s new on Bell Media’s Crave streaming service, after October’s Creepy Cravings slate, and Crave is opening its Holiday Collection landing page on November 2 with festive picks such as Love Actually and The Holiday. As...

Bell is reminding wireless customers today that phones in parts of Canada may show the wrong time after Sunday, when some provinces stop turning the clocks back. That warning lines up with recent calendar confusion in B.C., where software also struggled with the new rules. British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are moving...

Telesat is racing a December debt deadline while Ottawa keeps pouring public money into its Lightspeed network as a Canadian alternative to Starlink. The same company that won a multi-billion-dollar Arctic military satellite contract earlier this year now has about US$1.71 billion coming due on December 6. Chief executive Dan Goldberg told investors on Thursday...

Canadian news outlets were paid 60 per cent of their first year of Online News Act funding before their applications were fully checked. That works out to roughly $60 million from Google’s $100 million annual pot. The finding comes from an independent auditor’s report the CRTC released last week. Google's money is handed out to...

Death Stranding Isolations offers a different look at the post-apocalyptic world introduced in the game series.

The CRTC announced today that it is launching a free, downloadable music database so broadcasters, artists and the public can check which songs count as Canadian. The tool is aimed at radio stations that still have to meet Canadian content rules, not at the playlists you open on your iPhone while Ottawa keeps fighting over...

Zwift announced today that Zwift+, a new top membership tier for its indoor cycling app on iPhone and iPad, costs $37.99 a month or $379.99 a year in Canada. That works out to about 52 per cent more than the regular Zwift membership, which stays at $24.99 a month or $249.99 a year in Canada....

Anthropic announced today that voice mode in the Claude app on iPhone now works with Apple CarPlay. You can ask Claude something on the drive and keep your hands on the wheel. Voice mode on iOS and Android also answers sooner and hears you better in a noisy room or when you speak softly, and...

Eligible university and college students in Canada can claim one free year of Google AI Plus, Google said on Wednesday. The plan unlocks higher Gemini limits, Gemini in apps such as Gmail, and 400GB of storage. The offer was missing from Canada when Google ran a similar back-to-school deal earlier this year. Eligible students now...

BC Hydro's new mobile app puts bills, hourly usage, outage alerts and Power Smart rewards in one place. The free app landed on the App Store at the end of September, and it signs in with your existing BC Hydro MyHydro account. On Thursday the utility emailed customers to promote the app, saying cooler weather...