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If you are connected to an important business conference call and are using a Wind Mobile cell phone, make sure the call lasts less than 120 minutes. If not, you run the risk of embarassing yourself, losing potential contracts and business when your cellphone provider disconnects your call at the 2 hour mark without warning.

Wind Mobile restricts their calls to a maximum of 2 hours.

Above is a screen shot of a text message received my a Wind Mobile client after his call was disconnected.

Purchase a Windows 7 phone with Telus between December 15 and 19th on a 3 yr activation, and you will receive a XBox 360 for free!

• We’ll ship your new Xbox 360 to the address on your TELUS account
• Once your Xbox 360 has shipped, we’ll send you a confirmation email and tracking details.
• Up to 6 weeks after receiving order confirmation, your Xbox 360 will arrive.

Details here

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

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!