Rogers Wireless and Research In Motion announce the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone. The new BlackBerry Curve 8900 combines quad-band EDGE support with built-in Wi-Fi and GPS, a 512 MHz next-generation processor and a dazzling 480 x 360, high-resolution display.
The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone from Rogers Wireless features:
* A refined, streamlined design - the handset
Rogers Wireless and Research In Motion announce the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone. The new BlackBerry Curve 8900 combines quad-band EDGE support with built-in Wi-Fi and GPS, a 512 MHz next-generation processor and a dazzling 480 x 360, high-resolution display.
The BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone from Rogers Wireless features:
A refined, streamlined design - the handset [...]
The waiting was unbearable for some, but now it's finally here: the BlackBerry Curve 8900 is now available from Rogers Wireless. The phone will cost $179.99 on a 3-year agreement with a minimum monthly rate plan of $45.Key features include:
2.4" 480 x 360 display;
512MHz processor;
Quad-band EDGE;
Wi-Fi;
3.2Mpix camera;
GPS
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Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) lowered guidance at its mid-quarter update. We expected this, but the magnitude here for companies reporting data later this...
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This was a great week to talk food and social events, but Thanksgiving is gone until such time next year; so as one winds down on 'turkeys' up comes the political dialogue; and it never fails as a jolt to reality. So in that sequence, the “Transition to Power” continues.On that subject, President– elect Barack Obama, has reassured us that when he takes office on January 20, his team will not
It’s been a whirlwind month for safety Roderick Rogers. A practice squad team member for the Broncos through the first nine weeks of this season, Rogers was signed to the active roster on November 4th. A few weeks later, Rogers was making his first career start against the Oakland Raiders.
That one start was [...]
I didn't do anything last night in the Asian markets, but was stopped out of my ZB short trade for a small loss. Rather than having a strong opinion about market direction...
Rogers gets official with Nokia E71Canada’s largest mobile carrier, Rogers Wireless, has confirmed the upcoming release of Nokia E71, the smartphone announced by Nokia about four months ago. There’s no press release from Rogers yet, but, according to MobileSyrup, the Canadian operator has released an official statement which says the E71 will be available soon. Hopefully, this ‘soon’ mea
In Canada the Nokia E71 began its Canadian journey with the intentions of going with Fido, well that was until the master company decided it would be far better to have the Nokia E71 sporting it’s branding.
So to that end, Canadian big boy Rogers Wireless has officially released a statement saying the Nokia E71 will [...]
Our old Quantum Fund buddies are up to no good again, chiming in wherever the media outlets can pick them up. Recently, Jim Rogers was out saying that he thinks bonds will be a terrible investment for the next 10 or 20 years. Additionally, George Soros, in his Congressional testimony, said we are in a deep recession, and would not rule out the possibility of a depression.
Jim Rogers, famed author of Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market and Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers, and chairman of Rogers Holdings is...
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El esperado regreso se da en el número 11 de la nueva colección de Thor sin embargo no como muchos creían, pues desde antes que saliera a la venta se rumoraba de como y donde el ex-Capitan America regresaria. ¿Habra acertado J.M.S.?Después de una tranquila cita Jane Foster y Donald Blake deciden dar una caminata bajo la lluvia cuando pasan delante de una tienda de televisores, donde se transm
In keeping up with all the various hedge fund managers and 'whales,' I would be remiss if I did not include Jim Rogers and George Soros, co-founders of the legendary Quantum Fund. In a recent Canadian Business article, Jim Rogers sat down to share his thoughts."In fact, so convinced is Rogers of the commodities story that he has been buying agricultural products while selling U.S. dollars through
Rogers Wireless has announced the popular BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone for its Canadian users. Starting today BlackBerry Pearl Flip would be available in a…
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Ten minute video of Jim Rogers, sticking to his guns, as usual: Just a side note that seems relevant. I'm planning on moving out of the country for a few years. The reasons are many, but the current and future political climate have hastened my desire to shake things up. As with my trading, I've remained flexible with my goals, and the timing seems right. I will most likely keep the...
Rogers has successfully brought itself an extra 191,000 customers, thanks to the arrival of Apple’s iPhone 3G to Canada.
The company announced that, since the introduction of the iPhone in Canada in July, that they’ve sold 255,000 of the famous product as of late October. That is a quarter million in just three months. Hey, not [...]
After going back and forth, Frank Miller has agreed to direct a new 'Buck Rogers' flick. Miller back in May, fresh off his directorial debut for the movie adaptation for the classic comic book hero...
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Leon Rogers Jr. never dreamed he’d be a comedian. As a teenager, the Chicago native was dead set on being a priest.
In his own words;
“My pastor said `Leon you’ll make a fine priest.’ But I was just too silly to be a priest,”… “Father Leon Rogers … that doesn’t even sound right.”
Rogers is one of [...]
Seeing a lot of Google queries on Jim Rogers landing at this earlier post, I am happy to have found a link to Jim Rogers' blog. Taking from what one can see this blog is NOT edited by the legendary investor himself but documents all (or most?) of Rogers' appearances in the media. Its full title is "Jim Rogers - Investments."I hope the editor of this useful resource will add a RSS or XML button to
Legendary investor Jim Rogers is shorting the US treasury market. As he explains in this interview a hyper inflationary global economic environment is being created by government fixes. This will turn the current US dollar rally into a rout.
More immediately the big rally in US stocks yesterday happened when the bond market was closed for [...]
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October 10, 2008
Legendary investor Jim Rogers warned during a CNBC interview this morning that global central banks are creating the environment for an inflationary holocaust by their ceaseless overprinting of currency, a measure that isn’t even successful in stabilizing the stock market.
Rogers said that the only solution to the market crisis was [...]
He makes an outstanding point early on that it makes absolutely zero sense to trust those who led us into this mess and have been WRONG OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Folks like Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff, Doug Nolan, Mike Shedlock, Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, and, to a lesser extent, us, (among others) [...]
When it was announced the Nokia E71 would be exclusive to Canada’s Fido with a targeted launch for November, most Canadians were happy. There have been several blog posts covering the Nokia E71 going to Canada via Fido and how great it is to have the Nokia E71 in the Fido line-up.
Well according to a [...]
Es la enésima vez que veo este video y nunca se me había ocurrido subirlo al blog, está bravazo!. Kenny Rogers muestra a los televidentes en FOX que el puede hacer una serie como Jackass sin mucho esfuerzo ... y lo hace muy divertido!Disfruten el video, a mi parecer ta muy bueno XD!!! lo recomiendo.
Jim Rogers interview on NDTV
The legendary commodity expert believes the recent correction in commodity prices is normal and the bull run is not over yet. He says if history is any guide, the bull market can last long.
Renowned global investor Jim Rogers has a knack for knowing the direction of investment winds. Jim Rogers started [...]
It didn’t take long before you see BlackBerry KickStart in different colors. MobileInCanada has received an advertisement banner, showing a pink BlackBerry KickStart 8220 which will be sold at $49.99, with 3-yrs mobile service contract.
Someone you may know had a letter to the editor published in the Montgomery Advertiser this morning:
Alabamians should expect more than lip service from their elected officials on energy policy. Democrats and Republicans in Congress have failed to deliver a comprehensive energy policy that will take us into the next millennium.
We have the chance in [...]
I saw Marc Faber on television the other day, being interviewed about what he thinks will happen with the markets. A successful investor, Faber is mostly known for his newsletter, Gloom Boom and Doom. He has a Ph.D. in economics and has made prescient predictions in the past. One of these was his prediction of the 1987 stock market crash.As a few others, right now he's advocating buying gold. He d
Look, this comes from an alleged Fido employee, but knowing as I do how little information retail drones are usually given in advance, I would still take this with a grain of salt and chalk it up to rumour.
According to ehPhone member WorldIRC, the new Rogers/Fido inclusive plans will read something like this:
$60 iPhone Plan1GB [...]
Jim Rogers is easily the most truthful and least scripted person on financial media today. Here're his opinions of the Fannie & Freddie rescue package.
Rough summary- Not Good.
HOLLYWOOD - SEPTEMBER 05:Actor Tristan Rogers arrives at Stand Up For Cancer at The Kodak Theatre on September 5, 2008 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) credit to agentd for larger photos
So - Rogers Friendly Markets - 'memba them? Not sure which year this ad is from but almost everything on the page looks familiar.The milk cartoon - the light blue and white stripes - almost like I can reach out and touch 'em.Old South Orange Juice - they still make that stuff?And what year did they drop the "Posh" from "Puffs"?
It’s all going on in the mobile world in Canada thanks to Rogers, who seem to be making a really strong case for GSM networks there. They already have the Blackberry Bold and iPhone 3G and now it looks like they are going to be getting the Palm Treo Pro in September 17.
We really have [...]
BlackBerry Bold has made its first debut with any carrier in North American. Bold is already available in Germany, Austria, Turkey, Chile and Ecuador but…
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Competitors to Apple’s iPhone have a long ways to go. We previously mentioned about Bell’s Samsung Instinct and Telus’ HTC Touch Diamond, the so called “iPhone Killers”. Well, just yesterday the highly anticipated Blackberry Bold was launched by Rogers. Just how will these other phones fare against the almighty “Jesus-phone”?
For starters the Blackberry Bo
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I had the pleasure of meeting a real estate investor local to the DFW area, and he graciously accepted my invitation to speak candidly about his experience:
Happiness is Better: How long have you been a real estate investor?
Gregg: I got started in January of 2006 when I bought my first house on a [...]
Jim Rogers Exclusive: Bigger Financial Shocks Loom Consequences to Impact for YearsStock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2008Aug 19, 2008 - 05:00 AMBy: Money_MorningKeith Fitz-Gerald wrotes: VANCOUVER, B.C. – The U.S. financial crisis has cut so deep – and the government has taken on so much debt in misguided attempts to bail out such companies as Fannie Mae ( FNM ) and Freddie Mac ( FRE ) – that ev
Packers: Rogers gets the chance he's dreamed aboutMinneapolis Star Tribune, MNAfter the Packers-Brett Favre soap opera, the former quarterback's heir apparent, Aaron Rogers, made his first start and the Packers entered a new era. ... Read More
Kenny Rogers Country singing star Kenny Rogers has put his six-bedroom Atlanta, Georgia mansion on the market for almost $8 million, and he’s also throwing in his furniture.Kenny is building a new estate near Athens, Georgia and he wants everything there to be brand new, so he’s trading in all the fixtures and fittings from his current home so he can make a clean break.The Italian-style home
The U.S. men's beach volleyball team of Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser, ranked second, was upset in their opening Olympic match on Saturday, losing 2 Vote(s)
Why Save Mister Rogers Neighborhood? In June 2008, Public Broadcasting Service announced that it intends to soon change the way Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the beloved children’s television program, is distributed to member stations. PBS will cease transmitting the program as part of their daily syndicated lineup beginning in September. Instead, PBS will provide member stations with
Remember the days of owning a first generation iPhone, but having it come with 1.1.2 firmware? That time period was pretty painful for the folks who could only activate and jailbreak their iPhones and use them as “iPhone Touches”. But, as with anything eventually an unlock came out through a “SIM solution”. One that worked [...]
And so it was, through the magic of debt shuffling, we managed to make room in the budget to move the 3G upgrade ahead two weeks, which meant tonight was the night. My first-gen iPhone would be retired, and the wife and I would both have shiny new iPhone 3Gs to fawn over — [...]
At the end of July, I always start to get a bit antsy. I know my summer is coming to an end, and it makes me really sad, but at the same time, I get beyond excited for what new styles I will see at Fashion Week in September. I also start dreaming of layering. [...]
Rogers Cup Canadian Open Matt's Report
During this week we will have Matt's reports from the Roger's Cup where he will tell us about the tournament and he will also share pictures with us.
The first 2 reports are from the qualy where he was also very luck to get pictures with Vania King, Vera Zvonareva and Ai Sugiyama...
Thank you so much Matt for letting us share your report with our readers.
Rogers Cup Canadian Open Qualy Sunday Results
The Rogers Cup qualy continues and we have the firsts players to made it into the main draw.
Julie Ditty defeated Audra Cohen in 2 sets to made her past with the top girls in the main draw.
Michelle Larcher de Brito also made it through with a 2 set win over Olga Savchuk.
Cara Black, Jamea Jackson and Melinda Czink are among the winners.
Check out
Michelle Larcher de Brito Qualifies For Rogers Cup
Michelle Larcher de Brito, one of the players that is consider to be the next big thing, made it to another WTA Tour level main draw, this time in Canada.
Larcher de Brito, 2 weeks ago after playing the qualy in Stanford she made it to the main draw where she beat Gisela Dulko, ranked 34 in the world, and showed very good tennis by taking the
Maria Sharapova Photos Practicing at the Rogers Cup
Maria Sharapova has been pretty busy since she early lost at Wimbledo. As she tells us in her lastets blog post she travel around Europe and then she went back to work specially on her fitness.
Sharapova is already in Canada where she is the third seed and has a bye in the first round. But the Russian Tennis Star is not losing time and is
Rogers Cup Canadian Open: Seven young Canadian hopefuls defeated in the qualy
The Canadia Open qualy began on Saturday featuring players like Michelle Larcher de Brito, who is rising and she who won't have to play qualies for much longer.
Other players like Sesil Karantantcheva and Alexandra Stevenson are trying to get back in the games and are working very hard to reach their goals.
There
Rogers Cup: Packed Field in Montreal
Most of the WTA top players are heading to Montréal for the Rogers Cup, the biggest summer hardcourt tournament on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour outside of the US Open. Seven of the world's Top 10 players will be battling it out for the Tier I title and $196,900 champion's cheque.
Ana Ivanovic, world number 1, and Jelena Jankovic, world number 2, will be
Rogers Cup Friday Results
Gilles Simon continues surprising everyone after making the semifinals at the Master in Toronto. Simon, who beat Federer in the second round, got past Marin Cilic, who defeated Roddick in the previous round, in 3 sets.
In the semifinal Simon will meet Nicolas Kiefer who upset James Blake in 2 easy sets. Kiefer is having a great week as well as he defeated Nikolay
James Blake Upset by Nicolas Kiefer at the Rogers Cup
Nicolas Kiefer produced another upset at the Rogers Cup after defeating 6-1, 6-2 James Blake, 7th seed. This is Kiefer's his third Rogers Cup semifinal and with his win he left the top half of the draw without any seeded players.
Kiefer, who is 31 years old is the oldest player left in the draw. But even he is the oldest he is showing he is
Rogers Cup Thursday Results
Novak Djokovic, third seed, was the first player into the Rogers Cup quarterfinals.
Djokovic could get past Robin Soderling in straight sets with much problems.
Andy Roddick, 6th seed, on the other hand was upset by Marin Cilic. Roddick lost the first set but took the second and it looked like he was going to be able to advanced but Marin did not give him that
Novak Djokovic advances to Rogers Cup quarter-finals with win over Soderling
Novak Djokovic, third seed and defending champion, made it to the quarterfinals of the Master in Toronto today with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Robin Soderling.
"I played more or less at the level which was satisfying for me," Djokovic said.
Gilles Simon, who upset Roger Federer in the second round, continued his
Blaise Alleyne, Techdirt.com
July 24, 2008
Rogers — a Canadian telco — has been attracting a lot of negative attention lately between deliberately disabling notifications for cellular roaming charges, setting ridiculous iPhone pricing plans and injecting its own content into Google’s home page. As if that wasn’t enough, Rogers has started hijacking failed DNS lookups. This
Now there was a twist I was absolutely not expecting. It’s almost Hitchcockian.
The biggest gripe for Canadians when it comes to mobile technology? Rogers has the lock on the GSM market. (Fido is owned by Rogers, remember.) They have no useful competition to force them to offer more reasonable rates, and [...]
The Josh Segall for Congress campaign launched a site that will be of great use to the citizens of Alabama’s 3rd congressional district in understanding how they have been represented over the last several years by Congressman Mike Rogers. I’ve been very impressed with the Segall campaign throughout this cycle, and this website is [...]
The iPhone 3G’s effects seem to settle in. More and more handsets, and especially competitive smartphones will see price cuts in the new future. It appears that Rogers is one of the first carriers to take action on their alternative options. Rogers Wireless has announced their price drop for the Nokia N95. This very dependable [...]
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What an amazing and totally unsurprising story. Apparently, “IndyMac’s seizure marks the fifth FDIC-insured failure of the year,” as reported on KNBC. It’s yet another case of the US government trying to bail out a financial institution. I can see Jim Rogers seething in a mixture of disbelief and “I-told-you-so” right [...]
AT&T users are in for a little added excitement as they will have to wait for two to four more weeks before they can finally lay their hands on the Blackberry Bold. Rogers Canada has recently announced that the new BlackBerry Bold (9000 series) will be released on the 25th of July.
Many are wondering if it’s worth unlocking the Rogers Blackberry Bold for use with AT&T, and if issues on
Marat Safinand Frank Dancevic Lead Rogers Cup Wild Cards
By Tennis Week
Canadian No. 1 Frank Dancevic is playing for a place in the Newport quarterfinals today and received an early homecoming gift in the process — a wild card into the main draw of this month's Rogers Cup in Toronto.
Tennis Canada announced Thursday the four wild card entries into the singles main draw of Rogers Cup
Ron Paul explains some of the foolishness coming out of Congress in relation to Iran:
And, in a related bit of news, financial guru Jim Rogers is saying the US Dollar is dead. With a trillion dollar military empire and endless war and occupation draining our coffers, it is likely true that the Dollar (currently [...]
I want a Iphone 3G but not at this price
Here in Canada the Iphone 3G will make his debut on July 11th . It will be a happy day for everyone.
I know you dream to play with your brand new iphone and do a lot of thing. You will be able to [...]
Holy hell on a taco. Did you think you’d live to see the day? The day that Rogers backs down on screwing their customers, even an inch? I certainly didn’t — and yet here we are, because Rogers have grudgingly given a wee bit of ground on their iPhone plans.
It seems that [...]
This afternoon there was a piece on Global TV about new higher text messaging rates coming down the pipe from Rogers (and by extension Fido), Bell and Telus. Evidently, the new rates will charge $0.15 per text message — receiving or sending, if you don’t already have a text messaging plan.
But that’s not what [...]
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Yikes. Breaking news suggests that Apple is not very happy with Rogers. So unhappy that Apple has decided to forego the sales of iPhone 3G units in Canadian Apple retail outlets altogether! That’s right…you won’t be able [...]
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Remember site RuinedIphone.com ? Well looks like it worked out pretty well! Apple started talking to pull iPhone 3g from Canadian Market due to rip off plans from Rogers who wanted to charge $113 for 2gb dataplan. I just wonder who is next, maybe New Zealand who might charge $250 for 2gb data [...]
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The iPhone 3G will be on sale Friday in Rogers and Fido retail stores. Yesterday we showed you how the iPhone 3G displays would be setup, which included the first real world look at the iPhone 3G [...]
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It’s Monday today! That means on this Friday you eager beavers out there will finally get your hands on the NEW iPhone 3G (that’s if you’re willing to sign away for 3 years). Anyways, in anticipation of [...]
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With all the recent hoopla regarding Rogers and their iPhone 3G plans, many have asked the question: Has all this negative press made a difference? With recent news that competitors Bell and Telus announcing their new touch [...]
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Looks like some iPhone 3G competition is coming through another touchscreen mobile device. Bell announced some major news to trump over and Rogers. They have introduced the Samsung Instinct (coming August 8th), a touchscreen “iPhone killer” along [...]
Wow, what value!…
Rogers’ spokeswoman Liz Hamilton said consumers can decide what’s best for them.
Hamilton said consumers can pay $30 a month for a lower-use data plan to $100 for six gigabytes, which she noted is for heavy use such things as streaming video.”They don’t have to take the value.
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Welcome new visitors from Global TV! If you’re just joining us on iPhoneinCanada.ca right now, please take a moment to read some of the more popular posts and check out our iPhone accessories reviews! Don’t forget [...]
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The snowball effect is starting to take place right now in response to Rogers’ iPhone 3G voice/data plans. This all came about through the internet revolts, and RuinediPhone.com’s petition (which sits at almost 30,000 signatures!). Rogers has hired a PR [...]
Mr Rogers, a billionaire who's made his money largely in trading commodities, moved to Singapore with his family last year and has chosen to rent a serviced apartment instead of buying into Singapore property. About why he is not buying Singapore property for now, he said, ‘I expect there to be a slowdown, if not a decline; it is happening already.’ - Business Times, 6 Mar 2008The following is
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Big news for USA customers of AT&T yesterday! They just released their iPhone 3G pricing…let’s take a quick look, shall we? Keep in mind the following plans INCLUDE unlimited data!
AT&T Nation Unlimited: Includes unlimited Anytime Minutes for $129.99 a month.
AT&T [...
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As you’ve been sleeping under a bridge like a troll for the past week or so, I have a small news update for you. Rogers recently released their iPhone 3G voice/data plans, and to tread lightly they have not fared [...]
