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Posted by Jamie Forestell BGR seems to have great inside sources, once again breaking news that the HP TouchPad may be ready for retail as early as June. The WebOS tablet is also rumored to be priced at $699, which is $100 less then the Motorola Xoom. This information has …
Read More »Motorola Xoom available Feb 24 in USA, still no date set for Canada
Posted by Jamie Forestell There have been many leaks leading up to the release of the Motorola Xoom, including price and now the official launch date. We have confirmation thanks to Droid-Life, that the launch date is February 24 at Best Buy USA, and the contract price will be $799 USD. …
Read More »Tired of those loud TV Commercials?
A Surrey BC Conservative MP has introduced a bill to regulate the loudness on tv commercials. Bill C-621 would request that the CRTC amend the current regulation to limit the volume of television ads so that they are quivalent to that of the other programs. “Canadians are sick and tired of having …
Read More »Blackberry Playbook to run Android Apps: Bloomberg
Bloomberg reports the Blackberry Playbook will indeed run Android apps. When RIM first announced the Playbook tablet, the industry cringed at the thought of an entire restructure of Blackberry applications as well as the need to develop new apps for the QNX OS. The Andriod marketplace has roughly 130,000 apps, …
Read More »iPhone lockscreen password hacked in under 6 minutes
Posted by Jamie Forestell Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Techonology has pointed out a major flaw with iOS devices, a flaw that Apple cannot ignore. If you lose your iPhone, and it ends up in the wrong hands, all of your data can be recovered from the device, even if …
Read More »Bell Canada provides Unlocking Service
Bell Canada provides Unlocking Service Posted by Jamie Forestell After our article yesterday with the news of Telus providing an unlocking service, we were questioned about which of the providers do and do not provide an unlocking service. Here is what we found. Of course you can always look online …
Read More »HP TouchPad Revealed
Posted by Jamie Forestell HP has announced a 9.7-inch TouchPad (finally we may have a contender for the iPad), running webOS 3.0, featuring a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor and a Rechargeable 6300 mAh (typical) battery. The tablet will come with 16GB or 32GB storage. The media formats supported indicate MPEG-4, H.263, …
Read More »Hp to unveil WebOS today in 3 Flavours
Posted by Jamie Forestell Engadget reports the HP folks have updated their website a wee bit early. HP has scheduled a live event to take place at 1 PM EST (NOW) and it appears they will be unveiling WebOS in a small, medium, and large format. HP Veer, HP Pre3, …
Read More »Verizon iPhone 4 also encountering Antennagate
The folks at iLounge have confirmed the Verizon iPhone 4 also suffers from signal attenuation (death grip), similar to the original iPhone 4. This does not come as a big surprise, however during the Verizon media event, it was confimred the iPhone 4 had been tweaked and the antennagate should …
Read More »Teksavvy to testify on CRTC UBB Ruling
Posted by Jamie Forestell Teksavvy CEO Rocky Gaudrault and VP of Network Services for Primus, Matt Stein will get their chance to testify before a commons committee today. Last week Konrad von Finckenstein of the CRTC was ordered by the government to reconsider the ruling, or they would intervene. Today, von …
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