Sir Richard Branson announces Virgin Mobile’s RE*Generation expanded youth initiative

By Sonya Davidson

This week, Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Mobile hosted an exclusive live concert event with The Arkells in Toronto to announce a new initiative to help at-risk and homeless youth. The Virgin Mobile RE*Generation social initiative, which began in 2008, will be re-focusing on programs with partners that will help youth develop skills needed to get, and keep, jobs.

There are 225,000 Canadian youth who are not in school and not working. Virgin Mobile also mentioned that there are also about 35,000 are in emergency shelters and 6000 youth living on the street.

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TELUS adding four new Samsung Galaxy devices to its offerings

TELUS is bringing the much awaited Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and it's sidekick the Samsung Galaxy Gear to Canada. But wait, there's more. TELUS is also dropping the Samsung Galaxy SIII mini and the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini in for good measure.

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Review: Google Nexus S Gingerbread smartphone

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Samsung’s Google Nexus S, while very much a part of the Samsung Galaxy S family of Android smartphones, is also the hero phone and current flagship Android OS smartphone that Google has chosen to carry the Nexus name to the next level.

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6 Touch-Screen Class Smartphones compared

Words Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

(Published in Speed Magazine, August 2010 issue)

Touch-screen phones have become the new arena of competition in consumer electronics. With each new model, companies showcase everslimmer bodies, added form and function as well as unveil new design elements. This year, it is all about larger screens, pixels-per-inch,

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