canada
Phones
Wait, Did This Bell Palm Pre Video Just Diss Americans?
6:06PM Danny Allen | Bell Canada’s latest Pre promo video is intended to illustrate the phone’s ease of use in a tongue-in-cheek way. But its opening line certainly caught our attention: “Unlike our neighbours to the south, Canadians are an active people…” More »
Business
U.S. Pays More For Mobile Phone Service, Not A Rip Off Say Carriers
8:00AM Sean Fallon | A survey by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) revealed that the U.S., Canada and Spain pay considerably more for mobile phone service than dozens of other nations. Of course, the carriers were quick to spin the findings. More »
Phones
Is Apple Releasing An 8GB iPhone 3GS? (Probably Not)
12:33AM John Herrman | Would Apple really ship something so weirdly regressive and line-mudding as that? Yes, according to Canadian carrier Rogers’ website. Also, no, according to Canadian carrier Rogers’ website, and salespeople. Let’s take a gander at the evidence! More »
Music
iPod Classic Survives Deep Freeze in the Yukon
2:10PM Dan Nosowitz | In the melting ice, amidst the thawing dog crap, Whitehorse, Yukon resident Andrew noticed an oddly-familiar rectangular item: An iPod classic. He brought it home and found, to his surprise, that it was fully functional. More »
Vehicles
Exclusive Photos of the Draganflyer X6 UAV: Police Edition
2:00PM Adrian Covert | The Draganflyer X6 has been around for a bit now, but only recently have Canadian law enforcers begun using it to serve and profit protect. Here’s the first look at these flying UAVs in uniform. More »
Phones
Purported Rogers Phone Roadmap Makes Me Want To Move To Canada (Not Really)
8:50PM John Herrman | Who says Canada sucks for gadget lovers? This leaked Rogers/Fido roadmap says they’ll get just about everything next year, including a 3G Blackberry Pearl Flip and a Storm with (ohgod) Wi-Fi. More »
Vehicles
US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling
4:20AM Adam Frucci | We all know who the real threats to our American way of life are: Canadians. That’s why unmanned drone aircraft are set to start patrolling the US/Canadian border. More »
Robots
Underwater Canadian Robots the Latest Weapon in the Battle for Arctic Oil
1:00AM Jack Loftus | Apparently our polite neighbours to the north, the Canadians, are going to use two underwater robots to bolster their claims over the Arctic in 2010. These twin $US4 million Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (not T-1000’s, lame), are being constructed by the very un-Cyberdyne sounding International Submarine Engineering to scout out and claim potential drilling locations in the cold north. The ice cold Arctic, as you may know, is a hotly contested territory for the Canadians, Russians, Norwegians, Danes, and United States. Sadly, there are no frickin’ laser beams. Which is too bad, because we’re positive Putin armed his Russian robot submersibles to the teeth. At the very least, they’ll have GPS. More »
Business
Large, Goliath-Sized Apple Tells Small, David-Sized School to Stop Using Logo
4:30AM Jack Loftus | Apple is again flexing its immense legal muscle today with a threat of legal action against a small Vancouver business school over the use of the Apple logo. The tiny Victoria School of Business and Technology, which may remind some of a certain Biblical character named David, adopted the Apple-esque logo in 2005. Apple Inc., which may remind some of an angry, Biblical giant named Goliath, has used its trademark apple icon for the past 30 years. More »
Weapons
