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The Federal Government has released a statement today to announce the start date for the coveted 700MHz wireless spectrum auction, set to take place on November 19, 2013. Christian Paradis, the Minister of Industry, announced Ottawa plans to increase wireless competition to provide Canadians with more choices and better prices: "Canadian families work hard for their...

Facebook introduced a redesigned news feed today with a user interface inspired by mobile and taking advantage of visual content sharing. According to Mark Zuckenberg the redesign aims for Facebook to provide a "personalized newspaper", as users want updates from friends as well as publications. (more…)

The iPhone 5 price wars are officially on from TELUS, Bell and Rogers. The latter first launched a sale on 16GB and 32GB models, $99 and $199 on three year terms respectively. Yesterday, Bell and TELUS responded by price matching Rogers but the latter went one step further and discounted 32GB and 64GB models to...

Just yesterday we told you how a current Koodo promo had doubled the data and minutes on their Canada-wide plans. Now, it appears Fido has also stepped up to match Koodo by doing the same to all of their Smart Plans. As you can see below, all minutes and data have been doubled: Data overages...

Bob Iger, Chairman and chief executive of The Walt Disney Company, has told Bloomberg BusinessWeek that after becoming a Disney board member and the company’s largest shareholder, Steve Jobs would sometimes call him to say his movies “sucked”, via Business Insider. The transaction gave Disney a new source of hit movies. Jobs also became a Disney board member and its...

Hot on the heels of Apple's meeting with Beats to talk about streaming music services, the New York Post claims record labels have rejected the terms proposed by the Cupertino company. (more…)

Anti-virus, cloud content and computer security company F-Secure's mobile threat report for Q4 2012 has revealed that Android accounted for 96% of all mobile malware during this period. The firm has also warned in its report that Google's mobile platform is increasingly being targeted by malware writers and hackers. Apple SVP of worldwide marketing Philip Schiller said "be...

A London court has invalidated Samsung's assertion that some Apple products infringe on its patents, granting the Cupertino giant yet another patent win against its arch rival, ZDNet reports. The Judge ruled that Apple's products do not infringe Samsung's patents around the ability to send and receive information from a device over a 3G network. Judge...

According to a report published by Bloomberg, Samsung has increased its U.S. lobbying expenses by a factor of six i.e $900,000 last year from $150,000 in 2011, in its efforts to influence the federal government on its ongoing patent infringement lawsuits with Apple. The report also points out that the South Korean electronics giant has recently hired Sony...

This week's free app pick of the week from Apple is Rovio's original hit that started it all, Angry Birds. iTunes in North America won't update until later this afternoon announcing it, but it has been confirmed by BlogdoiPhone, as the game is showing as the app pick in the Brazilian App Store. To coincide...

Digitimes has today published two reports about the fate of the iPad and iPad mini supply. Industry sources say that the Japan-based Nissha Printing, which is Apple's main supplier of thin-film touch sensors for the iPad mini, just can't keep up with the demand due to a lack of production capacity. (more…)

Intel's move to make chips designed by chipmaker Altera spurred talks about a possible Apple deal, which could pave Intel's road into the mobile arena, Reuters suggests. (more…)