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Rogers/Fido Release Unimpressive New Plans

Today, Rogers and Fido released new plans and as compared to the last quarter plans, and even beyond that, the new Rogers plans especially are by far the worst they have ever done. New Rogers Plans 1.) $30, $35, $40, and $45 consumer plans received "unlimited mobile browsing" as an option add-on. (not compatible with...

Rogers/Fido To Reduce Local Calling Areas Across Canada….AGAIN!

The middle of December 2009 concluded what was expected to be the final round of Rogers/Fido local calling area reductions. Wrong. Effective March 15, 2010, Rogers/Fido are further reducing Local Calling Areas across Canada. What does this mean? Local Calling Areas (LCA) are invisible geographic boundaries that determine which calls are billed as local calls...

Even More Olympic Cheer With Vancouver Cheers For iPhone

The Vancouver 2010 Olympics are just days away and we have another iPhone/iPod Touch app that users can share their national pride with! Vancouver Cheers by Absolunet Vancouver Cheers allows users to choose their country flag and share their national pride. The app flashes the chosen country flag and the word "GO" in a strobe...

Are These 4th Gen iPhone Pics? [Unlikely]

The next iPhone will be released this summer. As always, leading up to the release of any Apple product, there will be so called "leaked" pictures (think of all those iPad pics). Anyways, yesterday iResQ claims to have received iPhone 4G parts and uploaded some pics for the rest of us to see. One major...

iPadinCanada.ca: Canada’s Newest iPad Blog!

You might have already noticed, but we've been working hard behind the scenes to establish a brand new blog dedicated to Apple's latest creation, the iPad. We're super excited to announce that iPadinCanada.ca is now LIVE! The purpose of this new blog is to focus solely on the iPad in Canada, and nothing else. (logo...

Review: Helium Digital HDBT-990 Bluetooth Wristband Communicator

You might have already read our snippet about Helium Digital's HDBT-990 Bluetooth Wristband Communicator they announced at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. I'm happy to announce that we managed to be the first on Helium Digital's list to be sent a demo for a hands on review. Let's see what the HDBT-990 is all about,...

Pre-Game Show: Dev-Team Releases PwnageTool 3.1.5 For Mac OS X

Apple released firmware 3.1.3 for the iPhone and iPod Touch on Tuesday, February 2, 2010. Instantly, the Dev-Team reacted and warned everyone not to upgrade to firmware 3.1.3 if they wanted to keep their iPhone or iPod Touch Jailbroken and Unlock. Dev-Team announced today the release of Pwnage Tool 3.1.5 for Mac OS X, which...

More Olympic Pride With iCheer – Country For iPhone

I can definitely tell that the Olympics are close as the Olympic-Country pride apps are being released everywhere! iCheer - Country by Rocky Mountain Mobile Software Are you going to the Olympics in Vancouver? If so, or even not, iCheer - Country may be your cheering companion. The nice feature about this app is that...

How To: Change the Names of Your SMS Tones

Hey, everyone. Rorypiper, again. Got a great tutorial this week, that will show you how to change the names of your SMS tones. Typically, when you download new SMS tones from Cydia, and apply them in Winterboard, you still have the same stock names of the tones, when you go into Settings -> Sounds ->...

Cydia App Review: iShakeLock

The iPhone has an Accelerometer. What that means is, when you rotate, shake, or any kind of movement to the your iPhone, the accelerometer detects this movement and can change display angles, or give you gaming control and more! iShakeLock takes advantage of this technology and allows you to shake your iPhone to lock or unlock....

Rogers Expires Freedom Of Speech

Effective February 9, 2010 , Rogers will no longer be offering "Freedom of Speech" (FOS) on any term plans. This means that any customers activating on any monthly, 1, 2 or 3-year term service agreement on or after February 9, 2010 will no longer receive one month of unlimited local calling. Prior to February 9,...

Apple Seeds New OS X 10.6.3 Build

Today Apple seeded a new build of OS X 10.6.3, build 10D548. The last seed, build number 10D538, was just released on January 22, 2010. According to reports, today's build provides a number of enhancements for QuickTime X, 64-bit, OpenGL, and Logic. The first 10.6.3 build was seeded in early January and the builds seem...