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Mobilicity has an offer for everyone just in time for Christmas.

• Unlimited calling to Canada and US
• Unlimited Global Texting
• Unlimited Data
• only $40/month.
• No contracts

Anyone can sign up for this plan and the can be used in the home zones. Currently offered in Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton, Vancouver and Calgary.

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You can download the UPS app for your Blackberry or Android Smartphone.

With the application, you can:

- Track package and freight shipments
- Find UPS service locations
- Estimate shipment costs and delivery times.
- Nickname tracked shipments
- See your recent tracks from ups.com
- Create shipping labels to email, then print
- Access your ups.com address book
- Use saved shipping and payment preferences

Windows Phone 7 is launching in Canada on Monday, November 8th, 2010. Trying to regain market share in the mobile phone market now dominated by Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and RIM’s Blackberry.

To celebrate the launch aka add buzz, Telus and Microsoft will be giving away XBox 360 consoles at Telus’s flagship store in Toronto.

If you active a HTC 7 Surround or a LG Optimus on a 3 yr contract with Telus (exclusively at the Eaton Centre Store) you will get a XBox 360 for free!

They will have limited quantities of XBox 360 consoles to give away, so get there early!

Telus finally released FOTA (Firmware Over The Air) updates for the HTC Hero.

The highly anticipated Android Éclair 2.1 update for the HTC Hero, that has been delayed for months is finally available for patient Telus customers.

What’s included?

• Android Éclair 2.1
• Google Navigation (Web-based Turn-by-turn navigation with voice guidance)
• Voice activated dialing

More details here

If you’re looking for HDMI cables, here’s an amazing deal for you.

5 Pack of 6Ft Gold-Plated HDMI Cable v1.3b Full HD 1080p Male to Male

• HDMI Male to Male
• Perfect for connecting your HDMI Monitors, A/V Receivers, and HDTV
• Supports all HDMI Devices, including
• Supports Resolutions up to 1440P
• Fully HDCP compliant to provide highest level of signal quality.
• 24k gold plated conductor to provide optimum signal transfer.
• Triple-layer shielding rejects interference for the best EMI effect.
• Cable Length: Appox: 6 feet/(1.83 meters) v1.3
• HDMI Adopter, Certification with ATC to ensure best quality
• RoHs Compliance

Link to deal

Use coupon code 6FD55BEE09 for an addition 10% off.

Until October 15, you can go into one of four Mobilicity corporate stores and get yourself one of their two Friends and Family Plan.

For only $35/month, you can get unlimited calling to anywhere in Canada or US, unlimited Texting to any number worldwide, and unlimited data.

They also have the $25/month for everything in the $35 plan minus data.

Update:

This deal was extended numerous times since I posted about this on the blog, and NEW expiry date has been announced as November 15th! Get the best plan in North America, before it expires!

The Source is having a 1 day sale on demo netbooks (Acer, Asus, HP, Toshiba) for 1 day only! (Today — Oct 7, 2010)

They start at $199, and go upto $299. It’s a decent price for OK netbooks (perfectly fine for web browsing, email, going on Facebook and Twitter).

Link to deal

Rogers announced today it will be the first wireless carrier in Canada to perform technical trials on the LTE (4G) network.

The trials will commence in the very near future in the Ottawa area.

LTE (4G) technology allows speeds of upto 150Mbps over wireless signals and is the next step for all wireless providers worldwide.

Source: Rogers Redboard