Many players in the telecom, mobile phone, financial services and retail industries sense opportunity in turning your phone into a wallet. How nice it would be, they think, to just wave your phone near a cash register and pay for groceries, or to send your kid some money by just ...

Bell announced yesterday it was acquiring all 750 of The Source electronics retail stores in Canada.

In case you didn't see it on CBO's homepage, I posted a column earlier this week on SpinVox, the UK-based company that hosts a voice mail-to-text conversion service for mobile phones—but wants to expand into other areas. Canada, believe it or not, is an important proving ground for the service, ...

I hope some Canadian wireless executives—whether they be inside the big three incumbants, or the new owners of wireless spectrum—read this New York Times story, which looks at how U.S. wireless carriers are starting to open up their mobile networks. In Canada, the wireless industry continues to nickel and dime, ...