Month: May 2009

Bell Mobility buys remaining 50% of Virgin Mobile

When I said we had a problem with mobility in Canada! This does not feel right. This brand had probably the lowest rate in Canada and was really no gimmic. I wonder how long it will last. And what will happen to Solo also a brand owned by Bell. They didn’t know how to make…

We need more nuke. Please

Why do I feel we are going backward sometime! http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/b5zKGZ73loo/nasa-running-out-of-fuel-for-deep-space-missions-because-nobody-makes-nukes-anymore Supplies of NASA’s go-to fuel for space exploration , plutonium-238, are dwindling. The U.S. stopped making it 20 years ago and now NASA’s Russian suppliers are running out after production shut down. The problem? Nobody makes nukes anymore. Deep space probes beyond Jupiter can’t use…

Is there only one mobile phone service in canada?

The android will be at Rogers: http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-text/featuredphones?content3=a NO ? So why is that Rogers always get the nice phones? o.k. o.k. most of the cool phone are GSM, but it really feel like Telus and Bell lack of buzz. They really need to work on theirs images.

Palm Pre Coming to Canada’s Bell Mobility

Good news http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=c0be614577cea3b43fb2d69960b8f03f Palm Inc . today officially announced that Palm Pre will debut in Canada exclusively on Bell Mobility’s 3G high-speed mobile network in the second half of 2009. “Bell is excited to be only the second carrier in the world to announce the 3G Pre,” said Adel Bazerghi, senior vice president of Products…

Rogers to charge customers without text plans for incoming messages

I’m tired of theses gimmic. Like receiving 140 chrs take so much bandwidth? It’s time for real competition in this business or reglementation. Now they are just following each others. One provider rise something and the others follow. Cheap. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/05/rogers-text.html?ref=rss Rogers Wireless said Tuesday it would begin charging 15 cents for each incoming text message…

FTC eyes Apple, Google board relationship

Ohhhhhhhh! Bad boy bad boy http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10233187-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 Apple and Google share two board members, a cozy relationship that has reportedly prompted the Federal Trade Commission to take a closer look at the antitrust implications.