I took the plunge. I upgraded my iPod Touch to 2.0. Easy? Absolutely! Does it kick Chuck Norris’ ass? Eh, not so much.
It isn’t that the firmware isn’t cool, because it is. The app store is excellent, the new features of the firmware are welcome, and overall it would [...]

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We all saw this coming. Apple has taken on so many new tasks that it has crashed. Think about it. Apple has just released its holy grail of a phone. It is pretty much sold out already, on its first day. Then you have the new firmware. This firmware is going to completely change how [...]

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Lest you think it’s going to be a bit of a wait before you can jailbreak your shiny new Firmware 2.0 device (be it a first-gen iPhone or iPod Touch with 2.0, or a glossy iPhone 3G), rest assured, the iPhone Dev Team are on the case, and they’ve got the video to prove it.
Their [...]

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Today’s iPhone launch across Canada was pretty intense, mirroring much of the same sort of thing seen in the US, but not everyone could get to the store, and not everyone is within a reasonable distance from their local Rogers outlet. It’s fortunate then that Rogers has decided to offer up the coveted Jesus [...]

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Holy hell on a taco. Did you think you’d live to see the day? The day that Rogers backs down on screwing their customers, even an inch? I certainly didn’t — and yet here we are, because Rogers have grudgingly given a wee bit of ground on their iPhone plans.
It seems that [...]

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This afternoon there was a piece on Global TV about new higher text messaging rates coming down the pipe from Rogers (and by extension Fido), Bell and Telus. Evidently, the new rates will charge $0.15 per text message — receiving or sending, if you don’t already have a text messaging plan.
But that’s not what [...]

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And so it starts. According to Lehman Brothers analyst Ben Reitzes, orders for the 8GB iPod Touch are starting to experience a “small but significant” delay of 1-2 business days to get it in stock, indicating that stocks of this particular model of Touch may be running low and Apple is not replenishing them.
This [...]

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If you don’t know who Hudson Soft is, and especially if you don’t recognize that iconic bumble bee on sight, you’re either new or you’re not a gamer. Most of you will probably remember them as the creators of venerable yet ageless Bomberman series of games, which they created initially for the Nintendo Famicom [...]

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Now that it’s all over and done with, we can sit back with leisure and reflect upon the last few months since talk about the 3G iPhone began. There have been two and a half metric butloads of rumours over the last few months, many of them obviously specious, some passable, and others being [...]

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According to Apple’s Canadian site, the iPhone is available to buy at both Rogers and Fido outlets. I’m sure this is rather startling news to Ted Rogers, and indeed just about every Rogers employee. When my wife told me about this and I checked it out for myself I went and checked the [...]

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You may remember during Macworld ‘08 that venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers created a $100,000,000 “iFund” to inspire and fund third party iPhone development. Now it looks like they’ve just announced the first companies they plan to be funding: Pelago and iControl Networks.
Pelago’s first application out of the gate is Whrrl, which [...]

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Ready for back to school?  Yeah, I know, those of you who attend only just got out, but that doesn’t matter to Apple, who are starting their Back to School promotion on June 2nd — that’s tomorrow, for those of you who have already lost track in your summer holiday reverie.  Last year’s promotion offered [...]

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Ordinarily, Mobile Safari is limited to a maximum of 8 pages open in their own windows.  However, iPhone in Canada’s iPhone Fan has written a method to overcome this limitation in a roundabout way:
Everytime I click on a link within the Mail app, it will launch Safari and a new window will appear. It seems [...]

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Rogers Communications, Inc., the parent company of Rogers Wireless, is expected to prosper, despite fears of competition from potential new upstarts generated by the Canadian Radio and Television Commission’s wireless spectrum auction.
Though Rogers’ stock took a significant 8.3% tumble last November when the CRTC laid out the rules for the auction, which reserved 40% of [...]

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Google Maps is cool. It’s pretty awesome having the world in your hands. Sometimes though I wish it worked more like Google Earth, with all the great social tagging and imagery and Wiki links. It’s not like the iPhone doesn’t have the hardware to do it, right?
That’s the thinking behind Colorado startup [...]

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