Check Out Google’s 3D Painting Tool, Tilt Brush
Need a new creative outlet? Want to paint, but don’t have a brush? Try Tilt Brush, Google’s new virtual reality app that allows users to “paint from an entirely new perspective,” in three-dimensional space. As Google states, “Your room is a blank slate. You can step around, in and through your drawings as you go. And, because it’s in virtual reality, you can even choose to use otherwise-impossible materials like fire, stars or snowflakes.” In...
Rogers First to Offer Internet of Things (IoT) Support to Canadian Businesses
Rogers Communications announced today it is the first Canadian carrier to offer Internet of Things (IoT) ‘as a service’ to simplify the process of managing complex IoT solutions. Two of the first solutions being offered as a service include Farm & Food Monitoring and Level Monitoring, and Rogers will deliver these exclusively with blueRover, a Canadian-based provider. The solutions will be supported end-to-end by Rogers, including...
Bell Offering ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ for $24.99 with New Service ‘Own with Bell’
Bell users can now watch more. Bell Fibe TV and FibreOP TV customers can now rent On Demand movies once and watch them as many times as they want with the new service, Own with Bell. Own with Bell is launching today with the mega box office hit, Star Wars: The Force Awakens available for $24.99, with unlimited access to more movies coming soon. “Own with Bell is yet another example of the innovation that has transformed Bell into Canada’s...
Virgin Mobile Announces New Phone Case for Men: The FaceCase Beard Edition™
Today, Virgin Mobile announced the launch of their newest product, a phone case that includes grooming tools for men’s beards. As their website states, “Knowing a guy’s beard is the most important wearable he’ll ever own, today Virgin Mobile Canada unveiled the FaceCase Beard Edition™, an innovative new phone case that allows men to groom their growth on the go.” The new case, designed with input from some of Canada’s most...
24/7 Sports Coming This Friday With Sportsnet Now Live Streaming Service
This Friday, Rogers Media will launch Sportsnet Now, a direct-to-consumers live streaming service. The service, which will host the Toronto Blue Jays 2016 season will be available to viewers for $24.99 a month. The service will be available to viewers without a cable package, and with no contract to sign. Fans will be able to stream all Sportsnet content online, on tablets or other mobile devices, which includes the content available on the six Sportsnet...
Report Reveals Top 5 Online Activities Conducted by People in Canada
Today, two weeks before the beginning of a public hearing being held on telecommunication services in Canada, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced they have added a public opinion research report to the public record of its proceedings, in turn revealing a bit about how people in Canada use their computers and phones. The research, conducted by EKOS Research Associates, gathered results through a questionnaire...
WIND Bringing Mobile Coverage Upgrades to Calgary
Today, Wind announced that new upgrades to Calgary’s mobile coverage will be coming soon. Fresh from completing an extensive coverage upgrade project in Greater Vancouver, which brought that network up from 10 megahertz (MHz) of spectrum to 20 MHz, Wind has now jumped provinces and is promising better call quality and faster data speeds for Calgarians using their services. According to a press release on the company’s website, these network enhancements...
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Fido rolling out LTE network this summer
During the course of this summer, Fido customers will start being able to access LTE throughout Canada. This will begin in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, St.John’s, and their surrounding areas.. By the end of 2012 it should also include Moncton, Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke, Québec City, Kingston, Ajax, Pickering, Oshawa, Oakville, Burlington, Hamilton, St. Catharines, Niagara, Windsor, Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, London, Barrie, Sudbury, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Kelowna, Abbotsford and Victoria. It looks like at launch Fido will be offering an LTE Hotspot device, with LTE compatible smartphones launching later in the year. “We are thrilled to offer the benefits of LTE network technology to Fido customers this year,” said Steven Sarfin, senior director of marketing, Fido Solutions. “Our focus at Fido has always been on providing the best value to our customers. With data plans starting from $10/month, affordable LTE service is a perfect complement to the exclusive FidoADVANTAGE programs like FidoTRADE™,...
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