Rogers

Why we love to hate the phone company

August 1, 2007

In Why Cloud the Issue With Facts? Mark Goldberg takes issue with a recent Ottawa Citizen editorial decrying high wireless access rates and the lack of competition in the Canadian market. Mark writes: One paragraph was particularly insulting to the software and hardware developers that call Canada home: Nobody with a cutting-edge product to sell [...]

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Not watching television is making me fat.

January 18, 2007

In The Influence of TiVo, Dale Dougherty talks about how TiVo has changed the perception of television.Â When TiVo, and it’s competitor ReplayTV, came out, they completely changed my use of television, and permanently.Â The critical feature was not storage capacity, the ability to pause live TV, nor the onscreen guide, butÂ rather that the device had [...]

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Rogers: Divorced from reality in the Walled Garden

December 5, 2006

I just got a pamphlet in the mail the other day from Rogers, offering all kinds of new services to buy on my Blackberry.Â Included: Rogers NewsClip.Â This handy application helps you save time by delivering the latest news, headlines, stock quotes and more from the Internet to your wireless device.Â Just $3/month.Â Â I’m not sure [...]

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Pearl Arrives in Canada

October 4, 2006

Mark Evans notes that the Blackberry Pearl has arrived here in Canada. $249 after rebates and signing up for a three year contract with Rogers, or $449 with a one year contract. Ouch! It seems steep when compared to the Nokia 6682, another 1.3 megapixel camera phone. RIM ought to bump up the quality of [...]

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From the Department of Brain Dead Marketing Ideas…

May 27, 2006

If you’re a Rogers Wireless subscriber, you may have noticed that there is an email to text message bridge available to you.Â Anyone can send email to your number@pcs.rogers.com, and Rogers will deliver that to you as a text message.Â In fact, that’s the way that AOL and MSN offlineÂ IM text messaging works.Â It [...]

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Blackberry Users Petition Rogers

February 25, 2006

After my experience getting charged with overage on my Unlimited-But-Very-Limited Blackberry data plan, several readers sent me links to the Rogers Blackberry Users petition. It turns out my case is actually pretty tame compared to some of the users out there who have been charged thousands of dollars. Some folks also suggested a complaint to [...]

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Bell Canada Digital Voice

September 10, 2005

Bell’s new Digital Voice offering is a good indication of where they are going strategically with VoIP. Dismissed by many as too little too late, Bell’s offering is much more than it first appears. First, it really is the first salvo beyond the basic telephone service being offered by Virtual Network Operators like Vonage, or [...]

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