Z10 sees best BlackBerry launch day sales ever

How successful was BlackBerry’s big launch day in Canada? Record setting sales if you ask the Waterloo, Ont.-based smartphone maker or the carriers, but less impressive if you look to the search engine

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 6th, 2013 Brian Jackson

Canadian Internet throttling is the worst, study shows

A recent international analysis shows that Canadian Internet service providers (ISPs) were doing more connection throttling than anywhere else in the world, according to a post by William Wolfe-Wylie on Canada.com.But the dataset

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 17th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

Tim Hortons announces free WiFi access

Coffee-addicted Canadians now have one more excuse to slurp down double-doubles and scarf Timbits as they work, with Tim Hortons announcing free WiFi today.A majority of the coffee shops, which have arguably become

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 5th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Quebec City: a diamond of the digital age

Quebec City, Canada's second oldest city, has long been recognized for its governmental focus. Since the year 2000, the diversification of its economy (particularly due to the ICT and video game sectors), the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 9th, 2012 Jean-FrancoisFerland

Small firms say Do Not Call List rules ‘unfair and confusing’

Automotive sales and services operator Ilya Pinassi is pretty sure that his publicly-listed citation for breaking federal unsolicited telecommunications rules is all a misunderstanding.It's really more about his service technicians refusing an unreasonable

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 11th, 2011 Brian Jackson

Bell serves up Cisco’s new SMB unified communications products

Bell Canada has partnered with technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. to launch two new unified communications (UC) products designed for small and medium-sized businesses to Canada. The products were launched March 2 at

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 4th, 2011 Harmeet Singh and Jim Duffy

Small businesses join revolt over usage-based billing

From music downloads to streaming videos, data backups to online classes and video conferences, usage based billing (UBB) has the potential for skyrocketing the cost of Internet service for individual and business users,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 2nd, 2011 Nestor Arellano

Samsung Omnia II disappoints with slow performance

On the surface, the Samsung Omnia II seems to be the Windows Mobile phone that fans have been waiting for. With its gorgeous 3.7-inch AMOLED touch display, attractive design, and impressive specs, this

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 3rd, 2009 Ginny Mies

Wind Mobile employees do ‘random acts of kindness’ while awaiting CRTC verdict

Wind Mobile is sending 400 of its employees out to help charities and buy strangers coffee instead of laying them off while it waits to see if it can operate in Canada.The new

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 27th, 2009 Brian Jackson

CRTC decision on traffic shaping evokes praise and dismay

In the wake of a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) decision that regulates Internet traffic shaping, one large carrier will update its Web site FAQ, while another small carrier questions whether it

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 27th, 2009 Brian Jackson

“Poor enforcement against telemarketers making Do Not Call list ineffective”

Privacy activists across Canada, last week, applauded the proposal of a new anti-spam bill presented to the House of Commons, which would penalize the distributors and facilitators of spam. But the bill had

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 1st, 2009 Michelle MacLeod

Relief for Canadian consumers as “Do Not Call” D-Day arrives

For long-suffering Canadians who, through the years, have been pestered at awkward hours by telemarketers, today – September 30 – is a red letter day.For the first time, Canadians have some remedy  against

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 30th, 2008 Brian Jackson and Kavita Gosyne

Bell’s download caps could choke independent ISPs: analyst

Bell Canada's intent to put a threshold on the network usage of the ISPs renting its network and remove access to its network would eliminate competition from the marketplace, says the Canadian Association

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 6th, 2008 Brian Jackson

Bell throttles traffic, stifles competition, Canadian ISPs say

Bell Canada is stifling competition by throttling peer-to-peer (p2p) traffic of its wholesale customers, says the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP).The Association says Bell should have to prove its network is congested

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 30th, 2008 Brian Jackson