Amazon's Chime promises frustration-free online meetings

Hoping to disrupt the online meeting video and audio space, Amazon is leveraging its dominance of cloud services with Amazon Chime for iOS, Android, Mac and PC for its AWS customers.

Amazon Chime is now available to all customers. Amazon Chime is a modern, fully-managed communications service from AWS that makes it easy for you to communicate with people inside and outside your organization using voice, video, and chat.

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Elusive 'Really Blue' Google Pixel coming to Canada through Rogers

Google's Pixel has currently available sporadically in Quite Black and Very Silver, Google announced that it is finally bringing the Really Blue Pixel north of the border at Rogers locations. Formerly sold as an exclusive to American carriers, the Really Blue Pixel will be available in two sizes as well as two capacities (32GB and 128), Google does bundle unlimited storage space for full resolution videos and photos. Check out our review of the Pixel XL. More details on pricing and availability coming soon.

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First impressions on Google Home

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

One of my biggest frustrations is that it takes so much time for a lot of technology to make it from the US to Canada. Certain items like voice assistants, streaming boxes, and apps take longer to come to Canada and when they do make it here, their features are often hobbled compared to the US versions.

This is true with Amazon's Echo product, which was ubiquitous at this year's CES, and this is also true with Google Home. These voice assistant speakers and hubs are supposed to be the next big technology and they're not openly available in Canada.

I picked up a Google Home during a recent US trip knowing full well that the smart speaker might not be fully supported in Canada. Here are my impressions.

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First Chevrolet Bolt EV deliveries taking place in Toronto

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Toronto, ON - The electric vehicle revolution in Canada took a big step forward today as Samantha Mesrobian, one of the first Toronto customers, received the highly anticipated Bolt EV. Trading her Land Rover LR2 SUV for one of the first three Chevrolet Bolt EVs to be made available to Canada, Mesrobian cited a need to try something different 

"I drive five or six kilometers a day to the GO Train station, but my mother lives outside of Guelph and my son in in school in Ottawa," Mesrobian said when asked what her commute is like. She will install a fast charger at her house and he's already researched the charger options along her usual drives. With the Bolt EVs projected 383 KM range, she's confident that she will not suffer from range anxiety.

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