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Nexus One is the HTC Passion, Wind compatible, $530 unlocked, coming in January

December 30, 2009December 30, 2009 drsquid cellphone, google, HTC, Nexus One, Wind Mobile, Wireless1 Comment

Today documents and screenshots leaked out to Gizmodo and Engadget showing some Google pages, and HTC training materials, for the Nexus One Google phone. The HTC documents are also clearly labelled as for the HTC Passion, so these phones are one and the same. The HTC documents show that the Passion is HTC internal name for the Nexus One, but it is not clear whether HTC will sell it as the Passion in other markets outside North America. The leaked Nexus One images and videos showed the phone running ‘stock’…

Wind Mobile Toronto Launch Coverage, continued…

December 29, 2009December 29, 2009 drsquid Bell, Blackberry, cellphone, event, HTC, Huawei, launch, Mobile, Rogers, Samsung, Telus, Toronto, Wind Mobile9 Comments

Our continued coverage of the December 16th Wind Mobile launch in Toronto…in Part 2 Ken Campbell, CEO, and Chris Robbins, Chief Customer Officer, talk in more detail about Wind, the phones, and their initial plan offerings. Part 3 includes rest of the press conference, and their first customer getting his phone. Parts 4 & 5 conclude the coverage, with a Q&A session, some shots of their phones, their second customer, and a short interview with Chris from Wind, where he mentions Wind’s current lack of support for enterprise mail on…

OnLive demoed at Columbia University, looks promising

December 29, 2009 drsquid cloud computing, Compression, console, Gaming, OnLive, PC, video7 Comments

Gamertag Radio recently posted a 48 minute demonstration of OnLive, the cloud gaming platform that many claim is just smoke and mirrors, recorded at a lecture at Columbia University. While final judgement should withheld until the service actually launches – and someone outside the company has tested it in the ‘real’ world, this video goes a long way to proving to me that there is real technology here that will work, and could potentially revolutionize gaming as we know it. However I am not ready to give up local gaming…

Belated Holiday Greetings…

December 28, 2009December 28, 2009 drsquid Avatar, Hero, HTC, Telus, Wind, Wireless1 Comment

Hopefully you got a cool gadget this Christmas, and found some deals this weekend at one of the many Boxing Day sales (boy have LCD TV’s dropped in price!). Since we were away for the holidays we wish you belated season’s greetings…and now we are back with some great updates to look forward to… Coming up this week will be more Wind news, with rest of the launch day coverage video, and an in depth discussion about Wind with Doug and Alex. In the almost 2 weeks since their lauch…

Wind Mobile Toronto Launch Video, Part 1

December 19, 2009December 19, 2009 drsquid cellphone, event, Mobile, Toronto, Wind, Wind Mobile6 Comments

On December 16th Wind Mobile launched in Toronto, with a Grand Opening ceremony at their Queen’s Quay location. rgbFilter was there, and captured it all on video. Part 1 covers the ceremony outside with two wind executives, Tony Lacavera, Chairman, and Ken Campbell, CEO. Stay tuned for part 2, which includes the press conference with more details about their offerings,and a Q&A session. I will also be posting some detailed thoughts about Wind mobile, and their current offerings…so far I have come to the conclusion that currently Wind is definitely…

Wind Mobile blows through town

December 17, 2009December 18, 2009 Doug Groves carrier, Wind Mobile, Wireless2 Comments

Yesterday, the newly minted Wind Mobile officially launched in Toronto, bringing with it a bit of a shake up in the Canadian wireless carrier space. They’ll also be launching in Calgary tomorrow. A few of the key differences between them and the incumbents: No contracts – you buy your device outright, and you’re not locked in. They currently only have 4 devices, but hope to expand that line up soon. Simple pricing structure – there are only 3 basic calling plans ranging between $15 and $45 dollars. Unlimited data –…

Communications Union want to stop Wind Mobile

December 14, 2009 Doug Groves CEP, Globalive, Tony Clement, Wind Mobile0 comment

Last week, Industry Minister Tony Clement stayed the CRTC decision preventing Globalive from launching Wind Mobile in Canada. As a mobile consumer, this is a good thing, even though it does raise the question of foreign ownership rule in the Canadian telecommunications industry. By making a special case for Globalive, Tony Clement was definitely sneaking a peek into Pandora’s Box. Now, it appears that the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers’ union wants to close that lid again. “This decision is a sellout of Canadian national interests and a betrayal of Canadian…

Mozilla exec recommends Bing for search

December 11, 2009December 11, 2009 Doug Groves Aza Dotzler, bing, Eric Schmidt, google, Microsoft, Mozilla, privacy, search4 Comments

Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development watched Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt talk about privacy concerns in a CNBC interview, and was compelled to respond with recommending Microsoft’s Bing as the search engine of choice for Mozilla’s Firefox. This is what Schmidt said… “I think judgment matters… If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines — including Google — do retain this information…

CRTC overruled, Globalive given OK to launch Wind Mobile in Canada

December 11, 2009December 18, 2009 Doug Groves CRTC, Globalive, Industry Canada, Tony Clement, Wind Mobile3 Comments

It’s been a while coming, especially if you’re a Wind Mobile employee, but Industry Canada has overruled a CRTC decision that prevented the new wireless carrier from launching in the country. After spending millions on spectrum, you’d think that they’d be in the clear, but due to CRTC foreign ownership rules, Globalive’s actual launch was postponed. “The decision to vary the CRTC Globalive decision, let me emphasize, was based on the legal facts and not on the government’s position that there needs to be more competition in the marketplace,” Mr….

Ubisoft Toronto Employee #1 reveals Toronto location

December 11, 2009December 11, 2009 Doug Groves employee #1, studio, Toronto, Ubi, Ubisoft0 comment

Were you wondering where the Ubisoft Toronto studio is going to be? It’s no longer a mystery, despite the video above. On his Facebook page, Employee #1 revealed the location to be 224 Wallace Ave. (map) just north of Bloor at Lansdowne. There’s more images of the building on his page, and yep, Ubisoft is also hiring, by either emailing them here… work.in.TO@ubisoft.com or visiting their Careers Portal.

Boxee Beta and Box unveiled

December 9, 2009December 9, 2009 Doug Groves beta, Boxee, Boxee Box, D-Link, Linux, Mac, Media Center, Windows5 Comments

I’m a huge fan of Boxee which is, outside of Windows Media Center, my favourite way to access media on my TV. Boxee, a social networking aware media center, has been in alpha for a long time, and Monday night’s beta announcement marked the next step for the company that wants to be your media portal to the world. With the announcement of the beta program (chock full of screenshots), Boxee has been given a new look along with new functionality. The menu system appears to have more polish, making…

Top publishers aim at digital distribution

December 8, 2009December 10, 2009 Doug Groves AP, Associated Press, Conde Nast, eBook, eReader, Hearst, magazine publishers, magazines, NewsCorp, publishers, publishing, Time Inc3 Comments

Imagine reading a headline like “5 top publishers plan rival to Kindle format” from the Associated Press, and it started off like this… Five of the nation’s largest publishers of newspapers and magazines plan to challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle electronic-book reader with their own digital format that would display in color and work on a variety of devices. You’d think that big name ‘old media’ was about to play hardball, especially if you kept reading it. The article continues to make confusing references to a ‘Kindle challenger’. This lead me…