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Sony Ericsson Xperia ‘Pureness’ is the only handset that is not a smartphone and which the Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker has included in its XPERIA series of devices. However, the mobile phone is special in itself, as it is the first device to come to the market with a transparent display, thus des... |
12 November 2009
18:41 GMT |
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Canadian wireless operator TELUS has been rumored for quite some time now to plan launching on the market the European version of the second Android-based handset from Motorola, and now all is official. In early 2010, TELUS will deliver the Motorola Milestone to its users, and it will be the only Canadian carrier to ... |
10 November 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone carrier TELUS is reportedly getting ready to launch on its airwaves two new and appealing handsets, the Motorola MILESTONE and the BlackBerry Storm2. The former has just been launched in the United States on the airwaves of Verizon, under the name of Motorola DROID, and comes with Google's ... |
10 November 2009
05:39 GMT |
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The global mobile phone maker has seen improvements in the third quarter of the ongoing year, yet it seems that the same does not apply to the Canadian handset market. According to a recent report from IDC, the sales of mobile phones in Canada went down by 8 percent in Q3 2009, marking the third quarterly decline it ... |
7 November 2009
07:08 GMT |
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One of the new services that Canadian mobile phone users are now able to enjoy on Bell Mobility's new HSPA network is Video Calling, the wireless carrier announced recently. According to the company, the new service is intended to offer users the possibility to make and take phone-to-phone video calls with othe... |
6 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone users might soon have the chance to enjoy a wide range of Android mobile phones available for purchase in the country. Rogers has already delivered three of them, the HTC Dream and Magic and the LG Eve, while Telus is already known to have snagged an exclusivity deal on the HTC Hero. However, t... |
6 November 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers Wireless announced on Wednesday that it would soon add to its offering the Nokia N86 smartphone, which comes to the market with an 8-megapixel photo snapper and with 8GB of internal memory. According to the carrier, the new device will come to an offering that already includes app... |
5 November 2009
09:40 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone carrier Bell has been expected to launch its new HSPA wireless network at the beginning of this month, and now the company went official with the exact date. Starting tomorrow, Wednesday, November 4, Bell subscribers will be able to enjoy the new highly-anticipated HSPA wireless network their c... |
3 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced only a few weeks ago the upcoming availability of BlackBerry Bold 9700, also known around the world as the BlackBerry Bold 2 or Onyx, and now Canadian carrier Rogers Wireless has the device available for purchase on its website. Priced at $299.99 upon the signi... |
3 November 2009
10:29 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone users will soon have yet another appealing handset to choose from, as Bell and Samsung announced a few days ago that the Samsung OMNIA II would soon become available in the country on Bell's airwaves. The new device will be available exclusively from Bell, and it will fit perfectly with the... |
3 November 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia seems determined to make its Canadian fans happy this holiday season, as it is reportedly getting ready to launch at least four new devices in the country in the near future. According to a recent post on mobilesyrup, the Nokia N86, 2730, 6750 and 6350 should soon be all present on th... |
9 October 2009
10:45 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers Wireless and handset maker Research In Motion have announced today that the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone has been released on the operator's airwaves. The new device comes as the latest addition to Rogers' lineup of Curve models and is expected to deliver an intuitiv... |
8 October 2009
03:04 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone carriers Bell and TELUS announced on Tuesday that they recently reached new agreements with Apple for the distribution of the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in the country starting with November 2009. Bell and TELUS raise this way the number of wireless operators in Canada to have Apple's device ... |
7 October 2009
02:17 GMT |
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Around the world, the incidence of eye diseases is constantly increasing, either due to environmental factors, or because more and more people turn to unhealthy lifestyles, and then later pay the price. In order to curb the rates at which human eyes deteriorate, Canadian experts have set up a new university/industry ... |
25 September 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Infrastructure solutions vendor Ericsson announced a while ago that it planned on purchasing Nortel Networks' CDMA and LTE assets, and that it had placed a $1.13 billion bid for the businesses, something that made Research In Motion shout out loud that the Canadian government should step to the front and block t... |
18 September 2009
17:31 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone users should get ready to welcome a series of new handsets from Samsung that are reportedly heading for the market in their country. The upcoming availability of these devices, namely Samsung Galaxy, Omnia II and Impact, should follow rather shortly after the launch of Samsung Reclaim on Bell�... |
18 September 2009
03:20 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers Wireless announced today the commercial availability of its High Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+) network in five of the country’s largest cities, including Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. According to the company, the new network is able to deliver maximum... |
14 September 2009
10:49 GMT |
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As promised at the beginning of this month, Canadian mobile phone carrier Bell made the highly anticipated Palm Pre smartphone available for purchase in the country a few days ago. Canadian mobile phone users willing to go for the new device will be able to find it available at Bell's stores and its partners all... |
31 August 2009
07:08 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone users now have the opportunity to purchase one of the available Android-powered mobile phones in the country for a price tag of only $49.99. While Rogers Wireless dropped the cost for the two devices, namely the HTC Dream and HTC Magic, to only $79.99 just a few days ago, now we learn that they ... |
13 August 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers has operated yet another price cut to the recently released HTC Dream and Magic, the only Android-based handsets in the country. After having the phones available for $99.99 at the beginning of July, a decrease from the $149.99 price tag the devices came to its airwaves with, now ... |
11 August 2009
09:01 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia seems determined to make its Nokia 6790 Surge handset available in more markets around the world, this time preparing it for a trip to Canada. The Nokia Surge has been launched in the US recently, on the airwaves of AT&T, and is expected to be released in Canada in the near future via... |
10 August 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Canadian wireless carrier Bell announced on Tuesday that it was set to launch the highly anticipated Palm Pre smartphone, which would become available for purchase on its airwaves starting with August 27. At the same time, the operator also announced that, as of August 4, its subscribers were also offered the possibi... |
5 August 2009
03:30 GMT |
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The Pre, Palm's high-end device, has already been rumored to get ready for a Canadian launch with the wireless carrier Bell, and the latest reports on the Web show that the release date is getting near. According to an internal document that reached the Internet via MobileSyrup, the mobile phone operator is alre... |
21 July 2009
10:34 GMT |
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Experts from the Durham University in the United Kingdom, the University of Utah and Plafker Geohazard Consultants have recently finished conducting a new study on the west coast of North America, which has concluded that the potential for devastating tsunamis is much larger than originally estimated. The team believ... |
20 July 2009
09:53 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone carrier Bell is reportedly preparing for the release of two new mobile phones on its airwaves, both handsets coming straight from South Korea, the Samsung Link and the LG Bliss. The first of the new devices is supposedly a Bell exclusive, and should come to the carrier's users on July 30, w... |
17 July 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Canadian wireless carrier Bell has already launched the BlackBerry Tour 9630 on its airwaves, although it was expected to do so only on July 17. The greatest part here is that the operator has managed to step ahead of Sprint and Verizon with the release of the handset. While the US operators launched the device on Ju... |
13 July 2009
04:32 GMT |
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Mobile phone users in Canada who would like to purchase an Android handset from Rogers will probably rejoice at learning that the company has dropped the prices of both HTC Dream and HTC Magic to $99.99 on a 3-year contract. The two mobile phones reached the carrier only a few weeks ago, yet it seems that their perfo... |
6 July 2009
03:01 GMT |
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It seems that mobile phone users in Canada won't have to wait too much for the new iteration of the iPhone to become available in the country on other operators than Rogers, as some of the latest news around the Internet point towards October as a possible launch date for the iPhone 3GS with wireless carrier Tel... |
26 June 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced on Monday the Canadian availability of its flagship model Nokia 5800 XpressMusic exclusively via Rogers Wireless. The new device is meant to offer mobile phone users in the country the ultimate music experience, while also including the urMusic service from Rogers Wireless, ... |
23 June 2009
06:17 GMT |
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At least the Canadian seal hunt practice is dwindling. With an alloted yearly quota of 273,000 individuals, the hunters only killed 70,000 of the animals, with their regular brutality. But the hunting of seals is beginning to become bad business. The Russian and Chinese markets, two of the main places where Canada se... |
19 June 2009
06:32 GMT |
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According to a new bill introduced in Canada, Internet service providers will have to dig deep into their own pockets in order to acquire, install and maintain "intercept-capable" equipment. The bill also makes it very clear that subscriber information must be released to law enforcement in a timely manner, without t... |
19 June 2009
05:04 GMT |
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It seems that the BlackBerry Tour 9630 will become available in Canada via Bell Mobility, at least this is what the latest reports on the Web suggest. In addition to the fact that the phone might soon become available in the country, the rumors also show a new series of specifications for it, along with a new photo. ... |
5 June 2009
06:55 GMT |
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Rogers Wireless was reported quite a while ago to be planning on releasing to the market the first two mobile phones in the world to run under Google's Android operating system, the HTC Dream and HTC Magic. On that note, John Boynton, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for the company, has announc... |
2 June 2009
11:35 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the web, mobile phone users in Canada will soon be able to enjoy yet another new messaging device that comes towards them from South Korean handset maker LG Electronics, namely the LG Rumor 2, which has been recently launched onto the US market through Sprint and Alltel. The device wi... |
23 May 2009
05:08 GMT |
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University of British Colombia experts have recently published a new study showing the fact that people with Pakistani, Indian or Chinese names have a much lower chance of having their applications accepted for various positions than applicants who have English-sounding names. During the research, thousands of CVs we... |
21 May 2009
09:11 GMT |
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According to the results of two years' worth of excellent archeology, experts can now argue that a newly discovered “pocket of life” in Northwestern Alberta, Canada, is a missing link between species that lived further to the North, and others that lived elsewhere in what is now the country. Many fos... |
15 May 2009
05:54 GMT |
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According to a new scientific research, which has unfolded over more than two decades, Canadian adults are highly inactive, and spend very little time exercising when they have some time off. When comparing results from previous studies, taken in 1981, 1988, and 2002/4, experts learned that only 12 percent of the sur... |
13 May 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson announced its C510 Cyber-shot mobile phone back in January, and the North American version of the handset, Sony Ericsson C510a, has just been spotted on the company's Canadian official website. As many of you might already know, the latter comes to the market as a GSM/HSDPA device, which means that... |
12 May 2009
02:32 GMT |
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Palm, Inc. has announced today that its high-end mobile phone Palm Pre, the first of its devices to run under the newly unveiled Palm webOS mobile platform, will become available in Canada exclusively on Bell Mobility's 3G high-speed mobile network, sometime during the second half of the ongoing year. “W... |
6 May 2009
10:42 GMT |
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In a decisive move, the European Union has banned imports of seal products coming from animals that are slain in the most brutal ways. Adopted yesterday, with 550 votes for and 49 against, the new legislation is aimed squarely at Canada, one of the main suppliers for the European market, which has come under increase... |
6 May 2009
06:32 GMT |
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A representative of the United States administration announced that Canada was being placed on the Priority Watch List, which is focused on those countries not doing enough to stop copyright infringements. It's the first time Canada has gone on the list, joining states like China, Russia, India, Thailand and Ven... |
6 May 2009
02:37 GMT |
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Canada's territorial waters are, at times, safe havens for illegal fishermen, who venture in their small boats off the coasts, and make a dent in the fish population, either by harvesting more than they need, or by doing so during the reproductive season. But surveying such a huge coastline as the country's... |
5 May 2009
04:04 GMT |
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The Entertainment Software Association of Canada, also known as ESAC, is announcing that it has begun a new campaign calling for legislators to take into account the need to beef up the anti piracy laws in the country, one of the most important markets for videogames in the world.The ESAC is saying that the legislati... |
27 April 2009
03:35 GMT |
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It seems that Canadian mobile phone users are now able to enjoy two more handsets that made it into the country recently. One of them is the LG Rumour (and the spelling is said to be the right one in Canada), while the other one is the Samsung Onmia, which was announced to become available in the country a few weeks ... |
30 March 2009
08:53 GMT |
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It seems that one more nice-looking touchscreen mobile phone is making its way to Bell's offering, namely the popular Samsung Omnia. The cell phone carrier is expected to start offering the Samsung Omnia come April this year, between April 9th and 12th, to be more precise. The new handset that is to come to Can... |
20 March 2009
02:52 GMT |
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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA/ASC) has already begun research and development on a new generation of robotic arms, the kind of tools that deal with the heavy lifting aboard the ISS and all of NASA's space shuttles. The device, for which MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has been already given some money,... |
19 March 2009
04:02 GMT |
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According to a new Canadian study of workplaces, more than 60 percent of employees in the metallurgy and saw milling sectors are daily exposed to noises that exceed by far the maximum health limits approved by the government. This state of affairs has been directly linked to an increased number of accidents, both at ... |
11 March 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Over the past couple of decades, the paradigm of families has slowly started to shift, in that it's no longer the social duty of a mother to attend to her child's education, if the father can do it. One of the main factors that have caused this change is the fact that employment options for women have impro... |
11 March 2009
07:42 GMT |
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Previous studies have predicted that the global warming trend our planet is experiencing is so alert that we could see the Arctic region being stripped bear of its ice sheets within a few decades. But now, leading polar expert Warwick Vincent, who is the director of the Center for Northern Studies at Laval University... |
6 March 2009
10:57 GMT |
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While in Washington on Monday for talks over the increasing use of clean energy, Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced that the country was ready and willing to be part of a larger, North American fuel-efficiency standard, alongside the United States. The regulation is necessary in order to drastically... |
3 March 2009
10:06 GMT |
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