Thursday
Apr292010

Telus to offer new BlackBerry Pearl 3G smartphone in May

Telus  will offer its clients the smallest Blackberry  smartphone ever starting in May.The new BlackBerry Pearl  3G will be available from Telus in either black or pink. "The BlackBerry Pearl is a favorite amongst Canadian consumers and TELUS is thrilled to bring them the latest addition to this family of smartphones, on our 3G+ network," said David Fuller, Chief Marketing Officer at Telus.

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Thursday
Apr292010

Adobe talks Flash and the Future 

Mark Anders and Richard Galvin of Adobe meet the Toronto tech press at FITCAdobe executives were in town to present in the recently concluded FITC   event with Toronto’s digital design and interactive community.

We were invited to a special lunch meeting with the media featuring insights from Mark Anders, Senior Principal Scientist co-creator of Flash Catalyst, Richard Galvin, Technical Product Manager for Flash at Adobe Systems and keynote speaker and Tom Barclay, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Flash Professional.

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Wednesday
Apr282010

Breaking News: HP purchases Palm

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

We never saw this coming but HP has just purchased Palm Inc. The flagging smartphone maker's poor earnings coupled with less-than-stellar consumer reaction to its Pre and Pixi smartphones spelled trouble and it seemed Palm was floundering in the very segment it helped create.

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Tuesday
Apr272010

BlackBerry 6 Revealed, WebKit browser and more apps in the works

Research in Motion has introduced BlackBerry 6. As evidenced by the video above, the refreshed OS is hoping to reach a younger, hipper demographic while building on the success of its business users. RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis's keynote at WES 2010 previewed a Webkit browser and some new navigation features, the OS update will definitely please existing BlackBerry users when it launches next calendar quarter. 

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