Archive for June, 2009

WirelessWave sends wrong message with latest ad.

WirelessWave needs to encourage more people to recycle their old cell phones, not toss them in a lake.

Bell, Telus to launch GSM service – what’s that mean for you?

Until now, if you’re like me you’ve had to shop around for the best deal you can find when getting a cell phone plan and then live with it for three years while your contract runs its course. At the end of the contract though, you’re always left with a decision about sticking it out [...]

1000 trees by Fall

With the first 50 trees planted and taking root in the public park on Sun King Crescent in Barrie’s South End, our next target is to collect a minimum of 1000 phones between June and August, 2009, so that we can plant an additional 1000 trees on the first day of fall. We’re off to [...]

The First 50 Seedlings take root

After collecting 50 cell phones in May, we executed our first 50 seedling planting today at the public park on Sun King Crescent in Barrie’s south end.  Despite teeming rain, the soil was soft and permitted us to get the trees in the ground without issue.  We’re hoping to have several hundred seedlings to plant [...]

Planning this weekend’s FIRST …

Planning this weekend’s FIRST tree planting!

Got the No Bluetooth Blues?

If your cell phone is more than a few years old, you might not be able to use the latest hands-free headsets that are available on the market.  There are many to choose from, models that fit inside your ear like earbuds and full headphone styles as well.  Some bluetooth enabled car stereos will even [...]

Hey Research in Motion! When can we text with no hands?

Text to Speech and Speech Recognition have been available on PCs for decades. When will we see these solutions on our mobile phones?

The First 50!

Thanks to everyone who’s taken the time to recycle their old phones through the CellCycle.ca bins located at select Zehrs, both Canadian Tire stores and Georgian College, we’ve collected our 50th phone! Now it’s time for us to hold up our end of the bargain – on Saturday, June 20th, we will be planting 50 [...]