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Rogers launches wireless phone service for remote areas

If you need to make phone calls from the cottage this weekend, Rogers Communications has a new wireless phone service that won’t have you running to the closest grocery store for the pay

Published on: July 23rd, 2013 Candice So @candice_so

Sprint said to be testing CDMA-based iPhone

Sprint is in advanced testing of an iPhone, possibly for sale this fall, that would run at first on a 3G wireless network rather than Sprint's faster WiMax, according to recent reports.Reports that

Published on: June 13th, 2011 Matt Hamblen @itbusinessca

Windows Phone

For the Mango release of the Windows Phone, due out this fall, Microsoft is still focused on creating a uniquely intuitive mobile UI for end users who are first and foremost consumers. But

Published on: May 30th, 2011 John Cox @itbusinessca

City chooses Exchange Online over Google Apps

The City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has never owned an Exchange server, but starting on Memorial Day it will roll out Exchange and Outlook e-mail for 2,700 of its workers.Winston-Salem - population 230,000

Published on: May 24th, 2011 @itbusinessca

Future smartphone battleground pits Android vs Windows Phone 7

Pyramid Research's claim that Windows Phone 7 will be the dominant mobile OS by the end of 2013 was greeted at best with polite skepticism, and more often with ridicule and vilification. But

Published on: May 19th, 2011 John Cox @itbusinessca

Inside RIM’s social network integration plans

Although Research in Motion made its name by delivering secure corporate email, it has had to move quickly to adapt to the ever-shifting world of social networking.Now that users expect a wide array

Published on: May 6th, 2011 Brad Reed @itbusinessca

RIM fights for BlackBerry relevance

Research in Motion rattled off a slew of product updates at its Blackberry World conference Monday, including two new Bold smartphones, the Blackberry 7 OS, and a couple of key apps for the

Published on: May 3rd, 2011 Jared Newman and Matt Hamblen @itbusinessca

iPhone location tracking facts – what you need to know

Given how much confusing and often contradictory information has been filling the media over the last week, it wouldn't surprise me if some iPhone users were calling in priests to exorcise the demons

Published on: April 26th, 2011 Bill Snyder @itbusinessca

Do-it-yourself tech accessories

Ingenuity: It's the stuff of legends in the geek world. After all, why should you waste your hard-earned cash or spend hours at the old electronics store to purchase items that you can

Published on: March 30th, 2011 David Murphy @itbusinessca

Google working with LG on ‘Nexus’ tablet: report

Google is apparently preparing its own entry in the growing Android tablet competition. Reports say Google is working with LG on a Nexus-branded tablet running the Android Honeycomb 3.0 software.The tablet could ship

Published on: March 29th, 2011 Daniel Ionescu @itbusinessca

Wave Connections turns any BlackBerry into push-to-talk device

Wouldn't it be great if you could press a button on your smartphone and broadcast to all your friends, or to groups of fellow employees? This kind of push-to-talk communications is now possible

Published on: March 18th, 2011 John Cox @itbusinessca

Must-have business apps for Android power users

Android smartphones are now the market leaders in terms of mobile sales, and more and more are finding their way into business, following the footsteps of the iPhone. Android fans have watched in

Published on: March 17th, 2011 JR Raphael @itbusinessca

Mobile devices that last for a month between recharges

University of Illinois engineers have developed a form of ultra-low-power non-volatile memory could someday provide consumers with hand-held devices that go without recharging for weeks or even months.The results of the study by

Published on: March 16th, 2011 Lucas Mearian @itbusinessca

Google responds to Android attacks with mass remote kills

Google will build new safeguards into Android Market, its application store for the Android mobile OS, following an attack that infected thousands of phones and forced the company to wipe the malware remotely

Published on: March 8th, 2011 Jeremy Kirk @itbusinessca

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