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First Telus, then Rogers, and now Bell. With Rogers and Telus offering free activation fees this month, Bell has now also launched an activation fee waiver promotion and is waiving the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. $35 Promo Eligibility & Restrictions The offer is applicable to new...

It’s that time again! For those that may just be joining us, here is the run down about these giveaways. It is a segment that will: Last 24 hours Only happen a couple of times a month (maybe less or maybe more) Be extremely easy to win (usually) Be posted at random What’s up for...

As is typical in the Canadian wireless landscape, what one carrier does, the others follow. Rogers is now the next wireless carrier to extended their activation fee waiver promotion and are waiving the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. Eligibility & Restrictions The offer is applicable to...

Looks like Telus is ready to spread some holiday cheer to 7 lucky Canadian cities. They will have 10 cabs offering free rides in each of the following cities: Calgary Edmonton Vancouver Toronto Montreal Regina Saskatoon The free cab service will operate from 11AM - 11PM, and passengers will also get a free holiday call...

In the beginning of December, RBC announced that an iOS compatible app was coming. Today, RBC made good on their claim and released their app. Like most banking apps, the RBC app allows clients to pay bills, transfer funds, check account balances, use Interac Email Money Transfers, and locate branches and ATMs using built-in GPS....

The App Store now has over 300,000 apps--and it continues to grow at a rapid rate (but will be taking a break for Christmas). Want to learn some more app statistics? App of the Day (a Canadian teen entrepreneur production) breaks it down with a simple infographic: What stands out is the number of unique...

We've tried augmented reality apps for the iPhone before. But never one like this for translating languages. The app Word Lens has hit the App Store and its live translating abilities are pretty awesome. The app interface itself is pretty poor, and its limited to Spanish to English (and vice versa) in-app purchases ($4.99 each!)...

Do you use Dropbox? It's the best way to access your files 'from the cloud' to your iOS device--for free. The Dropbox team just released 1.0 for Mac/PC, so I would encourage everyone to update to this new version. It includes a tonne of bug fixes and has been optimized. Here are the new changes:...

Apple announced this morning that the Apple Mac App Store will be live on January 6, 2011 in 90 countries. “The App Store revolutionized mobile apps,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun....

This week, Telus extended their no activation fee holiday promotion and is continuing to waive the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. The promotion is actually effective December 10, 2010 which means that any new activations since December 10 will receive the credit. Eligibility & Restrictions The...

Just a quick heads up that Electronic Arts (EA) has their library of iOS games on sale for both the iPhone and iPad. Games such as Scrabble, Tetris, SIMS 3, Monopoly, and Tiger Woods PGA (my pick!) are selling for $0.99! Get buying and enjoy. Just search for Electronic Arts in the App Store to...

Update 1: From the Firemint blog: We’ve just made a number of improvements to online multiplayer in Real Racing 2: Additional servers to cope with unexpectedly high demand Bug fix to reduce player “teleporting” effect Increased lobby wait time to 45 seconds to allow more players to connect Improved player matching, so similar cars are...