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Bixi Watch 2011 Continues

A screenshot of Bixi Toronto’s newly updated website, as it appeared earlier this morning. Bixi Toronto is scheduled to launch exactly one week from now, on May 3. Until Monday night we still had doubts, because there were no new details on how, specifically, the rollout was going to work. But the Bixi Toronto website [...]

Heroes and Villains 2009: Villains

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2009—the very best and the very worst people, places, and things in and of Toronto over the past twelve months. This week, Torontoist unmasks our picks, complete with original art by our illustrators; starting next week, and continuing until the end of the [...]

Text Bomb

Photo by Marc Lostracco/Torontoist. When it comes to holding customers in seething contempt, few corporate entities do it with more blatancy than the Canadian telcos. And they know customers hate them—that’s why Koodo (a brand owned by Telus, though you’d never know it) mocks the industry’s despicable practices in their advertising. But when three biggies [...]

Save Our Surfing

Photo by Galvatron from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. For a year now, several of Canada’s ISPs, including Bell, Rogers, Cogeco, Shaw, and a few others, have been throttling BitTorrent transfers, frustrating subscribers and internet wholesalers like TekSavvy. Two weeks ago, we noted that the CRTC was investigating the throttling practices of Canada’s ISPs, and while [...]

Hanging Up on System Access Fees

The bogus, made-up System Access Fee that Canada’s mobile phone providers use to intentionally and despicably dupe their customers may soon be history. With our telcos basking in some of the highest rates anywhere on the planet, don’t go thinking it’s out of the goodness of their hearts, though. It’s because of new competition entering [...]

Prentice Calls Out Telcos, Khadr Lawyers Call Out Feds, Rev. Jackson Calls Out Obama

Federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice has demanded a meeting with the honchos from Bell and Telus so they can explain to him exactly why they decided to charge their pay-per-use users 15¢ per received text message, calling the decision “ill thought-out.” Canadian technology users are consequently planning to demand a meeting with Minister Prentice to [...]

Bell and Telus Race to the Bottom

A day after Google called out Bell for throttling BitTorrent traffic, and a few days before Rogers releases the iPhone in Canada to significant customer dissatisfaction (the latest news is that Apple won’t even be selling iPhones from their own retail stores because of Apple‘s dissatisfaction with Rogers’ pricing plans), Bell and Telus have decided [...]

iPhone To Appear To The Faithful

Now, normally our coverage of anything Rogers is best downed with a tall glass of Haterade, but Toronto’s technophiles and status-hungry business execs have reason to give thanks today to the Evil Empire, for the most anticipated gadget of the last gazillion years is to finally land in our fair city: Apple’s iPhone. In a [...]