| DAVE Wireless to Rebrand Ahead of Launch
28/01/2010
Responding to consumer complaints about dropped calls and slow data speeds, American wireless giant AT&T has announced plans to spend $2 billion on network improvement this year.AT&T’s plans include building more cell towers and laying new fiber-optic cables between towers to improve data speed. This should help the carrier catch up to leading rival, Verizon Wireless, which has... |
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| Canadian Wireless Carriers to Implement Enhanced 911 Service
26/01/2010
Google has launched a web-based version of its Google Voice application, specifically for Apple iPhone and Palm Pre users.The application, which can be accessed via a mobile web browser, allows users to connect multiple phones to a single Google Voice number, place cheap international calls, and receive voicemail messages in text format.Google already released a standalone ‘Voice’... |
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| Google Launches Web-Based ‘Voice’ Application for Palm and iPhone
25/01/2010
Canadian cell phone operator, Rogers Wireless, has released a software update fixing a much-publicized 911 glitch on the HTC Dream smartphone.For the past week, Dream users have been asked to disable the phone’s GPS features as a workaround solution. This request was not popular with customers, however, given that GPS technology is necessary to properly run a wide range of smartphone... |
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| Rogers Wireless Patches HTC Dream 911 Glitch
19/01/2010
Rogers Communications’ online video portal, Rogers On Demand, is catching on with Canadians, the Toronto-based cable giant says.More than 46,000 users have already registered at RogersOnDemand.com, which is available to Rogers cable TV, broadband internet, digital phone, and wireless customers at no extra charge. The site saw a total of 1.8 million page views in December... |
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| Rogers Declares ‘On Demand’ Video Portal a Success
17/01/2010
Canada’s leading cell phone carrier, Rogers Wireless, has halted sales of the HTC Dream smartphone after discovering a glitch that could prevent 911 emergency calls from going through.Customers who already own the device are being asked to manually disable its GPS satellite tracking feature until HTC releases an “urgent software fix.” The feature can be disabled by doing the... |
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| Nokia Siemens to Build 3G Wireless Network for SaskTel
14/01/2010
Canada’s newest wireless carrier, Wind Mobile, plans to launch its service in Ottawa and Edmonton as early as February, and is already beginning to look for employees in those cities.Wind, which is owned by Toronto-based Globalive Communications, has opened nine stores and 16 kiosks in Toronto and Calgary, and is reportedly planning its Vancouver launch in the near future. It currently... |
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| Wind Mobile Begins Hiring in Edmonton and Ottawa
11/01/2010
Burnaby, British Columbia-based wireless giant, Telus Mobility, plans to launch a Canadian version of the Motorola Droid known as the “Motorola Milestone” on January 26, according to information leaked by an industry insider.“I`ve received confirmation from my Telus sales rep that the Milestone will be scheduled to launch January 26th on the Telus network; provided that it... |
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| Telus Rumoured to be Launching Motorola Milestone on January 26
10/01/2010
Rogers Wireless customers who purchased an HTC Dream smartphone will soon have the opportunity to exchange the device for an HTC Magic, allowing them to experience the benefits of Google’s Android 2.1 operating system.HTC Magic owners will receive a free Android 2.1 software upgrade by the middle of this year, but the same is not possible for Dream users due to hardware constraints. In... |
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| Rogers Wireless Lets HTC Dream Users Upgrade to HTC Magic
09/01/2010
Aspiring wireless operator, Public Mobile, is challenging the federal government’s decision to overrule a regulatory ruling blocking Globalive Wireless (aka WIND Mobile) from entering the Canadian wireless market.Globalive’s launch was initially blocked by the CRTC due to the high stake of the company owned by Egyptian telecom giant, Orascom. But this decision was overturned by the... |
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| Nextiva: “Big Business Phone Features at a Small Business Price”
08/01/2010
Halifax, Nova Scotia-based TetherBerry, which offers broadband tethering software for BlackBerry devices, is re-branding itself simply as “Tether” as it prepares to extend the software to Google Android-based smartphones.The Tether application is available via BlackBerry AppWorld and has already been installed on more than 60,000 BlackBerry devices. The software is described as... |
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