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Only on BlackBerry Bold: Take it for a Walk, Watch Your Favorite TV Program

Only on BlackBerry Bold: Take it for a Walk, Watch Your Favorite TV Program

By on April 2, 2009

This evening I had a conflict: I needed to meet up with a neighbor while walking my dog but wanted to watch a key hockey game via my NHL Center Ice cable subscription. Why? Another neighbor’s son is a leading player on a team that is surprisingly making a run for a playoff position. Fortunately [...]

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SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry: Pragmatic Cable, Internet and Wireless Convergence onto a Smartphone

By on January 4, 2009

In my early 50′s youth when I was delivering afternoon newspapers in somewhat remote Saskatoon, Saskatchewan I always tried to be at one customer’s home at 4:30. Why? At that time the only television viewable came via high rooftop antennae from transmitters far away (~400 miles) near Minot, North Dakota. If atmospheric conditions were favorable my [...]

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RIM Demonstrates Ongoing Support for Older BlackBerries

RIM Demonstrates Ongoing Support for Older BlackBerries

By on December 26, 2008

While ZDNet has named BlackBerry Bold the most influential biztech product of 2008, RIM has not been neglecting the millions of owners of older 8xx0 series BlackBerries. Earlier this week their BlackBerry Connection Newsletter announced that version 4.5 upgrades to all 8xx0 Series BlackBerries (using BIS servers via carriers) are now available. Why upgrade? To [...]

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Bold Twittering: When is a SmartPhone Truly a Mobile Microcomputer?

By on December 22, 2008

If I ever had any doubt about the value of Twitter as a commercial social networking tool, it evaporated this weekend as a result of following some Tweets on the subject of smartphones that appeared this weekend. They certainly provide an independent perspective on issues that I’m sure others are wondering about: Mark Evans acquired [...]

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The Reality of Convergence is Still Divergence.

By on August 6, 2008

I spent yesterday at a Nokia marketing event in Toronto and decided to only take my three mobile devices to see how I would deal with maintaining essential contacts and information flow (email, Twitter, Facebook, voice calls, web browsing) without having a full laptop available. The devices: a Blackberry 8820 (GSM/EDGE/WiFi), a Nokia N95 (WiFi [...]

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Sling Media Builds Out Its Business Model

Sling Media Builds Out Its Business Model

By on February 22, 2007

Just over a year ago I brought a SlingBox into Canada, prior to its Canadian launch, in order to be able to watch the Turino Winter Olympics on the CBC while I was working on an assignment in California with no CBC stations – even on cable. The Canadian networks provide over 16 hours a [...]

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