Engadget Mobile is reporting today that Virgin Mobile Canada is offering an unlimited data plan for $10 (aka the Tidal Wave Data Pak). Unfortunately, it appears to only work with a specific phone model and Virgin doesn’t use/support GSM (SIM cards) either so no iPhone use or laptop tethering….yet! At least it’s a huge step…
I figured it would be a good time to post an update on the current iPhone firmware and application status. First of all, if you don’t already have an iPhone, or if you have the 1.1.1 version firmware (the latest as of this post), then you probably won’t be able to unlock it to use…
This Thursday, October 4th is the next DemoCamp event at Workspace in Gastown – a very cool place and the home of BarCamp as well as this Flickr story. As I mentioned a few months ago, DemoCamp is an event where people show up, pitch something they want to demo and the rest of the…
The details are now confirmed for the September edition of the the Vancouver Third Tuesday event taking place on Tuesday, September 25th at SoHo in Yaletown [map] at 6pm. Yeah we know it’s actually the fourth Tuesday of the month the schedule is built around speaker availability. The inaugural speaker for the Vancouver event will…
Tomorrow, Friday, September 21st is the last day for voting on the submissions for panels at the 2008 South by Southwest Interactive Conference. If you have a moment, it would be great if you could vote for Frank and I. It just takes a few moments to register and vote. See my previous post for…
Well, it didn’t take long for a free version of the software unlock for the iPhone to be released by the iPhone Dev Team. As I mentioned previously, it’s not for the those that are afraid of the command line but expect that to change as more people get their hands on the code in…
Via News1130.com: VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – It may be a while yet before Canadians get to use an iPhone. Rogers Communications has the only network in the country capable of supporting current iPhone technology, and says it still has no word from Apple for a release date here. Rogers Chief Operating Officer Nadir Mohammed thinks Europe…
Last night I was fortunate enough to be invited to talk with Robert Sanzalone on his live pacificIT Radio show in Japan. He’s currently living in Japan and is a technologist from the Vancouver area with his finger firmly on the pulse of everything in this Web 2.0 world. There is still something cool to…
Yesterday, Gizmodo posted a video (no embeded version) of them using the iPhoneSimFree unlock software. It seems pretty convincing that at least the software unlock application exists and it’s pretty straightforward to apply the unlock. Engadget also weighed in on this latest chapter although they seem to point out that this is a demo of…
Just got home from a fun evening out at the Alibi Room in Gastown. It was a fan meetup of sorts to celebrate the 100th episode of the Lab with Leo Laporte which is shot in Vancouver. I’ve been a fan of Leo’s work since the early days of the Screensavers and was actually in…