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With Fido launching their new $30 Unlimited Incoming plan, and retiring their existing $35 Unlimited Incoming plan, Virgin Mobile has now done the same. Virgin's new $30 Unlimited Incoming plan is almost identical to the new Fido offer, except that the Fido plan has unlimited text messaging instead of a 50 message cap from Virgin....

Effective today, Fido has launched a new $30 Unlimited Incoming plan. The stated expiration date for the promotion is May 2, 2011. You might notice that this plan is almost identical to the recently expired $35 Unlimited Incoming plan. While the new plan is $5 less per month, it does not have Caller Display or...

We've been talking non-stop about Angry Birds, and rightly so as it's emerged as one of the best selling mobile games of our time. Angry Birds Seasons first launched with the Halloween Edition, was updated with the Season's Greedings Edition, and now the Valentine's Day Edition is upon us, just in time for February 14th....

We all know Steve Jobs/Apple are not big fans of the physical CD. The preferred method, of course, is iTunes digital media. But even with iTunes and many other digital media services, the CD still survives...until today! On the latest episode of Seth Green's stop-motion show Robot Chicken, a Steve Jobs parody shows Jobs becoming the...

The Verizon iPhone achieved over 500,000 pre-orders in the US. People have already receiving their new iPhones, including the iFixit team. They have torn down the Verizon iPhone 4, exposing the internal components to the world. Here are the notable changes, from iFixit: Same battery capacity but weighs less: 26.9 grams to 25.6 grams. New...

Today, Rogers launched a new data sharing option for customers that have the 6GB data plan. It will cost $30 extra per month, per device to share your existing 6GB/$30 data plan with up to five devices. But first, some history. July 2010 With the launch of the iPhone 4, Rogers released their famous 6GB...

Today, Google released their Priority Inbox feature for mobile Safari on iDevices. The Gmail webapp for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad now has Priority Inbox support. Priority Inbox helps users in managing an overloaded email inbox by automatically identifying important messages so users can see them first. The feature has been available for the desktop...

Unless you have been living under a rock, most consumers know that an iPhone device is due every summer since 2007. The Original iPhone hit June 29 2007 (US, not Canada), the iPhone 3G hit July 11 2008, the iPhone 3GS hit June 19 2009, and the recent iPhone 4 hit July 30 2010. In...

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If you have perused the iTunes Store lately on your iPhone, you might have noticed that Genius recommendations are now available. Genius first launched with the release of iTunes 8 in late 2008, and Genius Mixes added a year later in iTunes 9. You can check out Genius on your iPhone by launching the iTunes...

The recent Angry Birds update included the secret 'Golden Egg' that would only be revealed during the Angry Birds Rio Super Bowl commercial (click here for leaked pics of Angry Birds Valentine's Edition). Well, there's no way that I would ever figure out something like this, but hats off to the folks at AngryBirdsNest. One...

This week, Telus announced that the wireless company will be unlocking their IDEN/HSPA+ devices as of February 15, 2011 for a $50 fee. At first glance, this seems similar to the Rogers/Fido unlocking policy, but there is one major difference. The Telus unlocking policy is more flexible, not requiring customers to be on their contract...