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Amazon Launches New Echo Spot Ahead of Prime Day with Special Price

Amazon has unveiled the all-new Echo Spot, the company’s Alexa-enabled smart alarm clock, in celebration of Prime Day. Designed for the nightstand, the new Echo Spot features a compact, colourful display that shows the time, weather, and song titles. Prime members can purchase the Echo Spot for $99.99 (Prime Day deal now live at $64.99!)....

Bell Price Hike: Select ‘Winback’ Plans Increasing in September

The wireless price hikes keep coming, as Bell recently informed customers on select ‘winback’ plans (exclusive deals offered to lure you back to the company) an increase is happening on September 1, 2024. According to an email shared by an iPhone in Canada reader, Bell explains the $40/100GB plan is going up by $6/month on...

Apple Watch Series 10 Details Leak Ahead of Fall Launch

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has shared details of the upcoming Apple Watch 10 and Ultra 3 ahead of the expected fall release and also the 10th anniversary of the wearable (that was fast). There are Series 10 models codenamed N217 and N218. The new Series 10 displays will be nearly as large as those on the...

Koodo Price Hike: iPhone Visual Voicemail Goes Up 60%

We’re back with some more carrier price increases, folks. Telus-owned Koodo has increased the price of its iPhone Visual Voicemail add-on by 60%, now priced at $8 per month. Previously, Visual Voicemail was priced at $5 per month. But a recent notice on billing statements said this price was increasing by $3 to $8 per...

Apple Approves Epic Games Store in Europe After Outcry

Apple on Friday said it has approved Epic Games' marketplace app for iPhones and iPads in Europe. This change comes after escalating tensions between the tech giant and the Fortnite creator, which accused Apple of stalling its efforts to bring its own app marketplace to iOS devices. The approval concerns the Epic Sweden AB Marketplace...
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iPhone 16 Pro Said to Get iPhone 15 Pro Max Camera: Report

Apple's upcoming iPhone 16 Pro is said to include a tetraprism periscope camera, featuring a 5x optical zoom that first appeared on last year’s iPhone 15 Pro Max, according to DigiTimes (via MacRumors). The tetraprism camera components for the iPhone 16 Pro will be primarily supplied by Taiwanese lens manufacturers Largan Precision and Genius Electronic...

Netflix, Disney and More Take CRTC to Court Over Streaming Tax

Netflix, Disney, and other U.S. streaming companies have filed a legal challenge against last month’s CRTC decision to mandate foreign streaming services to pay 5% of Canadian revenues towards Canadian news and content. The Motion Picture Association-Canada argues that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission exceeded its authority with this order and overlooked the significant...

CRTC Report Explains the ‘Catastrophic’ Rogers Outage from 2022 [Update]

The CRTC has released its commissioned report by Xona Partners that has summarized the “catastrophic" 2022 Rogers outage that affected both wireless and wireline services that impacted over 12 million personal and business customers, that lasted over 26 hours, before services started to be restored. "In this report we detail the findings for the period...