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• Video ready camera with Facebook® and Flickr® uploader for download
• Intuitive QWERTY keyboard and innovative new trackpad
• BlackBerry® Messenger IM application
• HTML browser using 3G or WiFi networks
• MicroSD slot expandable to 16GB
• External easy access music keys
• Now even slimmer. Easily fits in your pocket.

Great entry level price of $349 for month to month and $49 on 3 yr contract.

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This was posted on Gizmodo — The new iMac iPhone  (concept device).

Recently a number of Facebook groups have started popping up protesting Facebook’s new fee for service starting July 9, 2010.

Groups like the following “NO, I WILL NOT PAY $3.99 A MONTH TO USE FACE BOOK FROM JULY 9TH 2010″

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=nf&gid=240404479295

These groups are simply scams!

Facebook will not start charging their 350 million users to for their service. If Facebook started charging for membership, the 350 million will dwindle down to a few million loyal who are willing to pay money to waste their time online. Let’s face it, Facebook is a waste of time for the most part. Sure you may have reconnected with old lost friends and family, but it has turned into a bill board full of crap and useless information about people who you don’t really care about.

Businesses and parents hate it, as their employees are wasting hours at work poking, cyber stalking and playing farmville instead of doing their jobs or homework.

Facebook makes their money off ads, ads that you and I (current free Facebook users see and click on). If we’re not there to see that ad, or click on that ad, they won’t make any advertisement revenue. Facebook is well aware of the fact that most users will not pay $3.99/month to use Facebook and membership numbers will spiral down. Once the users disappear as a result of this new charge, Facebook will cease to exist. So, it’s not happening!

So to recap: These groups claiming Facebook starting to charge a fee is just hog wash.

Just when you thought it can’t get any worse, Rogers outdoes itself!

Rogers is increasing the data overage cap from $25 to $50 for high speed internet customers. A 100% increase!

“Your Express Internet service includes a usage allowance of 60GB/mo. If you use more than this allowance, you will pay an additional $2/GB in usage charges. Effective March 1, 2010, the maximum monthly usage charge is changing from $25 to $50. All other aspects of your service remain the same. For more information, call 1 888 ROGERS1.”

It’s time for Canadians to give Rogers the middle finger and switch to ISPs that aren’t screwing over Canadians — see Teksavvy.

Here are 2 charts demonstrating how Canadians get screwed over by the Big ISPs and the CRTC (who sit idly and allow these greedy corporations to rape us).

Telus introduced a new anytime minute add-on feature for those who exceed their monthly daytime minutes.

This is ideal for those who exceed their plan by 10-90 minutes.

$3 for 30 anytime minutes is the new feature offering.

Telus has been offering $10 for 100 minutes, $20 for 200 minutes and $30 for 300 minutes for a few years now.

Google’s Nexus One to be released today at CES.

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The best Blackberry Twitter client has a new Beta version. Beta-6 of Ubertwitter is available for download.

The updated features from their website:

• Lists, Lists, Lists!!! – You can create, delete, subscribe, add members, view members, all the functionality you would expect of an Über mobile client!
• Find People – You can search for people, just like the ‘Find People’ link on Twitter’s home page.
• New Icon – We love it!
• Über Bar – We couldn’t resist the name! This is a tab bar at the top of the screen, the neat thing is that you can add your own tabs! A list can be a tab, users timelines, and soon saved searches
• Retweets – We support the old method and new method, you decide!
• Update Twitter Profile – Yes, you can update your Twitter profile directly from your phone.
• Profile Picture – We have heard you, upload a picture for your Twitter avatar right from your phone!
• Report Spam – One menu selection to report a tweet as a spam.
• Twitter Geo-Tagging – We provide support Twitter’s new geo-tagging capability. You can decide whether to use myloc.me URLs, Twitter Geo-Tagging, or both!
• Friend Picker – Type ‘@’ and a list of your friends automatically pops up allowing selection
• Larger Avatars – Click the profile picture, and view a larger version! You can even email that larger version!
• TwitLonger – Yes, you can tweet MUCH longer tweets now, thanks to the folks over at TwitLonger.com, we have fully integrated this capability into both sending long tweets, and automatically retrieving long tweets. We love it!
• What The Trend? – Ever wonder why certain topics were trending or what they meant? No more! We have integrated with the folks over at WhatTheTrend.com to allow you to see the explanations for trending topics, and also for you to provide your own explanations!
• Choice of timeline layout – Choose the new ‘bubble’ layout or the original ‘bar’ layout.
• Verified Users – We show a small blue check-mark icon in the timeline to denote verified users
• Network Connection Logic – We re-worked the network connection logic, things should be alot smoother.

Beta-6 can be downloaded at: http://www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php

The CRTC announced on Friday, like Globalive (Wind Mobile) a month earlier, Public Mobile’s ownership structure will be reviewed by the panel.

Unlike Globalive (Wind Mobile)’s public review, these proceedings will be private.

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