We're still waiting on a solid bit of subsidized US availability on Sprint, but Canada's got things all figured out -- how typical. Palm's Treo Pro is doing the EV-DO Rev. A thing on Bell Mobility up there, going for $99.95 on a three-year contract -- 1 and 2-year contracts are $0 and off contract i...

While the fact that Twitter's SMS service is returning to Canada is grand news, Bell Canada's 15 cent price for admission is most definitely not. Twitter shut down the outbound SMS service in November last year due to rising costs with a note that it was working toward a solution to fix it. Well, it...

Filed under: Management, Google (GOOG) Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), after months of searching for a new Chief Financial Officer, has just named a new one as of this week. Bell Canada (NYSE: BCE)'s Patrick Pichette will take over for the retiring George Reyes. Reyes, who presided over Google's IPO ba...

Filed under: Law, Conventions and conferences It looked like the deal to take BCE (NYSE: BCE), the parent of Bell Canada, private would be hung up by the unwillingness of banks to take on huge amounts of debt during a credit crisis. Instead, the $35.4 billion deal will probably be killed by the Cana...

Filed under: Magazines, Time Warner (TWX), Private equity, Citigroup Inc. (C) If we needed another sign that private equity is passe, we need go no further than to look at the current issue of Fortune , which shares a parent, Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), with BloggingStocks. To be fair, Fortune add...

Filed under: New content Those anxious for more HD through Bell Canada can add one more to their list of options, as Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) is finally delivering an HD version of the channel on the aforesaid carrier. Unfortunately, Bell Canada is currently the only way to recei...

Filed under: OTA, Satellite, New content Canada's own Bell ExpressVu is currently mulling an interesting plan that could bring "free" OTA networks to folks faraway from towers and terrified of paying a cable provider for TV service. Dubbed FreeSat, the proposed service would give Canadians "free acc...

Filed under: Industry, DVRs, Satellite, Sports Shortly after Sharp's AQUOS HD Netcam took the ice in a Rangers / Devils matchup, the National Hockey League has announced that it will be utilizing a certain carrier's own HD PVR for instant replays during the 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs. Apparently Bell...