This past Tuesday Bell announced their support for Twitter's SMS messaging over their mobile network for a cost of 15 cents per incoming and outgoing SMS message. Following a discussion between themselves and Twitter, Bell has decided to revise their pricing and has announced that "Twitter SMS messages will now be included free of charge to Bell customers on text messaging bundles." [More]

The 3G BlackBerry 8230 Pearl Flip is launching through Bell today, the first in Canada to offer a CDMA version of the Pearl Flip. The carrier is pushing it as part of their promotion for their Unlimited NHL Bundle which offers live audio of the games plus selected video broadcasts, highlights, themes, and more. The option is being made to customize the Flip with a free cover, featuring your choice of NHL team logo and a 2GB micro SD card pre-loaded with NHL video clips. It'll be offered in three colour choices - solid black, two toned black, and pink. In addition, Bell is offering an introductory price of $29.95 for a three-year contract, good until March 31st. [More]

Journey to the Edge of the Universe will air this Sunday at 8pm on the Discovery Channel. This is a re-posting of my earlier review of the film from February 9th. You can view a trailer for the special here

If you’ve used Google Earth then you know how impressive the fly-over animation is. That’s where your desktop begins on a city street and quickly pulls out, revealing the nearby buildings, then the city landscape, then the surrounding territory, the country, the continent, until it reaches orbit briefly and pans around the world, quickly spinning over the oceans to the next continent and zooming back into another country, area, city, building, and once again, to street level. It’s a heady rush, and an effect that offers a unique sense of the scale of our world. [More]

Combining Palm's classic Treo design with Windows Mobile 6.1 and a high-speed data connection, the new 3G Treo Pro is being released here in Canada today through Bell Mobility for $100 with a three-year contract or $550 without a contract at all. Other features include a Wi-Fi, GPS, e-mail and web access, a touchscreen, and the ability to open ZIP files, PDFs, and Microsoft Word Documents. Full spec list below: [More]

From Daily Planet and Mythbusters to Guinea Pig and Cash Cab, every show on DiscoveryChannel.ca now has its own massive section complete with bonus video clips, interactives, and discussion forums. It's all part of an impressive relaunch of the site which also includes the release of a new Adobe AIR Desktop Widget, available for both Mac and PC, that gives you a quick listing of website updates plus access to an interactive rollover exhibit. The network has more online updates planned, with similar relaunches coming for Discovery HD, Animal Planet, Discovery Civilization and Travel + Escape. [More]

Okay, who propped the chair up against the door? Actually it looks like it might be bolted to the floor. How are you supposed to get out now? Sagrario’s Room is a photorealistic puzzle room, one that may seem pretty empty at first, but is actually home to several hidden puzzles and objects to find. Click around and you'll see what I mean, a hidden panel here, something taped to the back of that item there, strange things to collect and all with an intriguing purpose. Can you use the items to solve the puzzles and find a way out? [More]

At Rule The Stars you can reach up into the night sky and use your mouse to form lines between the stars and create your own artistic images. Just click and draw lines in any direction, then use pivot points to form curves and shapes. Far from flat, your creation will be given a 3D effect to help it stand out. Check out the gallery for some great samples. [More]

In thirty-nine days the Swedish Space Corporation will be launching a rocket into outer space and are offering everyone the chance to include their own personal message to be included, to deliver messages from "cyberspace to outer space". You can add your own message at Space Is The Limit check out the other messages created by others, which are currently floating in cyberspace, waiting for launch. [More]

Pick a spot, any spot on the planet in Google Maps and you can drop a virtual Nuke onto it using Ground Zero. The point of the mapplet is to show the range of effects that would be caused by the resulting thermonuclear damage. You can choose to change the effects based on different types of weapons. [More]

Street View, a mapping feature that offers interactive panoramic views of real world streets, will finally be turning its zooming gaze towards Canadian streets in March, but not through Google, the company that first introduced it. Canpages.ca, a Burnaby, B.C.-based localized search and commercial listings service, has licensed the technology and created their own version, due to launch in a couple of weeks. [More]