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  • A year after the invasion/revolution

    A year ago I blogged about Rogers bringing Android handsets into Canada and I was wondering about Rogers/Google pushing out ads over the OS and the cost of the handsets. A year on, it seems that my fears of ads being pushed out over the OS were a bit unfounded (for the moment) on the…

  • HTC Hero running unlocked on Rogers

    Well let’s deal with the problems first… First, Android 1.5 doesn’t play nicely with ics files, so invites over email don’t work. Even if you use the browser(s), it seems that you can’t accept the invite via that method either. So even though the calendar updates like greased lightening to Google Calendar, you have to…

  • Something chilling is up

    Not that the presentation that I wrote about last week was really predicting this, but the rumour that is running around that suggests that Telus may be moving to GSM! (GN). So that convergence to a single 4G technology in Canada is certainly a reality. Why is this something that came to light today? Well,…

  • Bad Rogers II & Copyright

    Well, it seems that Google isn’t overly happy with what Rogers did either when it plastered it’s own content on the Google search page. Between this and the new copyright bill, it seems that the Harper government is leading Canada down a cloning road to match the conditions in the US. Thankfully, the copyright bill…

  • Bad Rogers

    Well, if you are connecting from out East and you download a boatload of data, Rogers seems to have found a way to let you know that you are close to your data limit. Wired posted a story about it today, so I’m sure it’s going to be talked about in geek circles for a…