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Last Fall, Rogers announced LTE trials in Ottawa. Today, as part of their quarterly earnings call (which had profits drop), Rogers CEO Nadir Mohammed confirmed this to investors: "We’re committed to LTE. We’re committed to deploying it and it’s going to be a multi-year deployment." What is LTE? As defined by the Rogers Redboard: LTE...

Recent rumours from Digitimes indicated that the next iPhone will sport a 4" display and house a next-generation A5 chip. Other rumours from the WSJ hint at an iPhone 'Nano' with and 'edge to edge' screen. We won't know if any of these come to life until they happen. But in regards to the 4" display, TUAW...

From the Globe and Mail: Rogers Communications Inc. saw profit drop by 3 per cent in the last quarter, falling short of analysts' expectations as Canada's largest wireless provider continues to suffer from a wave of new competition. As new companies such as Mobilicity and Wind Mobile continue to push in, and old rivals BCE...

Google has just announced on their blog a new publishing initiative, called Google One Pass. CEO Eric Schmidt introduced this today at Humboldt University in Berlin. With the backlash over Apple's new subscription policy, publishers looking to head elsewhere (if they actually jump ship from iOS is another story) can do so with Google One...

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In the beginning of February, Telus was preparing for a soft launch of HSPA+ (or what Telus calls 4G) in Manitoba. The soft launch was scheduled for today, and today Telus has launched the network. This new network means that for residents in the Winnipeg area, you will be able to use the many Telus...

This week, in response to Telus, Rogers has launched a new $60 Voice & Data plan. The plan is very comparable to the existing $60 Promotional Voice & Data plan from Telus, with the only exception being that Telus offers Voicemail 3 for free. Aside from that, the plan requires a 3-year new activation or...

This week, Virgin Mobile has launched a new $35 Unlimited Incoming Plus plan to compete with Koodo. Virgin's new $35 Unlimited Incoming Plus plan is almost identical to their previous $30 Unlimited Incoming plan, except that the new plan has 5pm evenings vs. 7pm and caller display. This new plan from Virgin is available on...

With the announcement of Apple's new subscriptions model, there have been mixed emotions popping up left, right and center around the web. Publishers are crying fowl Apple is taking a 30% cut of subscriptions, and some have even brought up anti-trust issues against this new policy (?!). What exactly is Apple introducing here with their...

Today, Fido released another bombshell plan with their new $35 Unlimited City Fido plan. Some of you may remember when Fido launched a similar unlimited calling plan for $50 back in December 2010, but that plan was not available to any smartphone customers. This new $35 Unlimited CityFido Plan also temporarily replaces the existing $35...

If you want to jailbreak your iPhone on iOS 4.2.1, and you don't require an unlock, use Greenpois0n. However, if you want to remain at an unlockable baseband, you'll want to use PwnageTool 4.2 (Mac) or sn0wbreeze 2.2 (Windows). Here's a brief tutorial on how to jailbreak your iPhone on iOS 4.2.1 with PwnageTool. It's straightforward...

Hot on the heels of the release of the jailbreak tool PwnageTool 4.2, which allows for custom firmware restores for Mac users, sn0wbreeze 2.2r2 has been released for PC users. sn0wbreeze essentially is PwnageTool for Windows users. It also includes the latest iBook and AT2 wifi fixes. sn0wbreeze 2.2 uses the same untethered jailbreak from...