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iPhone 3G Launch: Big media black-eye for Rogers

July 11, 2008

Even after the stores opened and the customers have packed home with their lawn chairs, the disaster that has been the iPhone’s launch in Canada continues to ring (pardon the pun) in the ears of consumers. I took a spin around Vancouver on my motorcycle (sorry, going too fast for photos) this morning at 7:30 [...]

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Whither Telus » Bell .. so Shaw » Rogers?

June 21, 2007

Telus and Bell have confirmed they’re in merger talks, after BCE earlier announced it was mulling over its options earlier this Spring. Both companies are weakened by declining landline revenues as competition from Wireless and the Cable Guys and, to a lesser extent pure-play VoIP contenders, is heating up. This makes a lot [...]

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Paying More for Local Wireless Calls..

October 26, 2002

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/10/23/calling.phones.ap/index.html Calling cell phones could cost more Wednesday, October 23, 2002 Posted: 9:15 AM EDT (1315 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) –Here’s another reason to check your telephone bill closely.
A subtle realignment this fall in the nation’s inscrutable tangle of phone systems could cause a surprising increase in what some consumers pay to call cell [...]

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Photos In Space…

August 19, 2002

Sprint Wireless in the US is the first North American wireless carrier to launch “PCS Vision”, which lets you take and share digital pictures over the wireless network.
http://www.pcsvision.com/pictures.html
To me, the applications for this are interesting, and none of us probably really knows what the broader uses will be. I saw someone on [...]

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Handspring TREO

February 26, 2002

Finally a PDA worth using:
http://www.handspring.com/products/treo/index.jhtml
Now what we need is a wireless carrier that will let us have multiple devices on one phone number, so that when I DON’T need this big clunky thing I can just haul around my tiny Samsung.
-Ian.

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And Now For The News of the Obvious

July 13, 2000

For those among us who live in hyperbaric chambers and for whom this wasn’t already patently obvious, I present:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20000713/wr/sprint_worldcom_dc_1.html
Thursday July 13 12:44 PM ET WorldCom, Sprint Call Off $120 Billion Merger By Ian Simpson NEW YORK (Reuters) – Long-distance telephone powerhouses WorldCom Inc. (NasdaqNM:WCOM – news) and Sprint Corp. (NYSE:FON – news) canceled [...]

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