Radio / Television News

OPINION: Love the third screen (mostly)


AS AN UNABASHED OLYMPICS FAN and a Winter Olympic nut (two-man luge, anyone?) I knew what I wanted during Torino 2006: The Samsung a920. That was the little navy blue handset that Bell Canada's beavers, Frank and Gordon talked soooo much about during their many, many, many appearances during the Olympics last month. So, I begg, er, asked the nice folks at Bell if I could test one during the Olympics. Happily, they obliged. In a deal with the CBC, Bell was offering the Corp.'s live feed of the Olympics on the handset, as well as numerous pre-packaged features and...