by Lee Rickwood
Created in response to Canpages’ recent API contest, this mobile app also connects with the enormous search database at canpages.ca, and directs you to the closest restaurant with the best food for your mood.
by Lee Rickwood
It affects any number of our daily tech activities, and our use of digital material of all sorts, including music, movies, cell phones and video games.
Featuring Ted Kritsonis
Apple’s much-hyped iPad is a slick and stylish device that will serve multiple purposes. Initially, you’ll ask yourself if you actually need it, and make no mistake, the iPad is a “want” and not a “need”. But it does many things well — you just need some time with it to find out for yourself.
Text and photo by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Mobilicity’s pay-in-advance, unlimited service model ensures customers can use their phones as much as they want within their city coverage area without the worry of incurring extra charges. For customers travelling outside the Mobilicity unlimited network coverage area in Canada and the U.S., low per-minute-rate roaming will be available on a pay-per-use basis, as will other extra features, such as international calling, downloads and 411 directory assistance.
By Dilshan Kathriarachchi
Apple’s launch of the in-app iAd framework would no doubt be a game changer for the mobile advertising industry. In its inspired attempt at merging TV-style ad experiences with the interactivity of the web, Apple has set the bar very high for a mobile advertising industry that is still in its infancy.
By Ted Kritsonis
The dreaded cell phone contract. There’s a bitter irony in that it binds the carriers to their customers, and yet its terms are usually the flashpoint for the endless derision the latter aims at the former.
As Apple has now announced the date for iPad availability here in Canada – May 28th, the company says – there should be lots of interesting devices as well as people in attendance.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
HP has money and the desire to be a competitor in the mobile space, they may finally be able to succeed where Palm has failed, but they better hurry up. Microsoft, Apple, Google, RIM and even Nokia are way ahead in many markets.