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. …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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, …

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 …

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 …

The NHL has released Leafs TV Interactive Mobile app on the iTunes appstore that will deliver you game previews, recaps, Video Highlights, and most importantly LIVE Video Streaming of all Regional Maple Leafs broadcasts. You must be within broadcast zone for the application to pick up the video streaming. You can …