Highlights & video from Rogers TabLife TO
By: calendar iconDecember 7th, 2010 a 10:04am

Rogers TabLife TO audience

On Friday, Rogers headquarters in Toronto was buzzing as 200 visitors, many with tablet in hand, attended the inaugural Rogers TabLife TO.

Throughout the day, twelve speakers touched on the ways the tablet is transforming the way we live, work and play. Rogers’ John Boynton also announced three initiatives to help grow Canadian usage of tablets, which he declared were “dashboards” of tomorrow.

Catch up on what you might have missed

For those that couldn’t make it, we’ve uploaded six full-length videos of the day’s sessions.

1. Duncan Stewart of Deloitte Consulting gives an entertaining take on What’s Next For Tablets.

2. John Boynton of Rogers discusses Tablets In A Connected World.

3. Tablets and the Media panel featuring Bob Stein, Institute for the Future of the Book; Stephanie Jackson of Zinio; Matt Hartley of the National Post; and Claude Galipeau of Rogers Media.

4. How Tablets are Transforming Business panel featuring Dr. Wendy Graham, who uses tablets in her practice; Margaret Stuart of SAP Canada who uses special tablet software for sales leads; and Gord Stein, Vice-President of Rogers Business segment.

5. The inspiring Tablets and Autism case study by University of Toronto researcher Rhonda McEwen

6. Live demo of the BlackBerry PlayBook by RIM’s David Neale, featuring Q&A with TabLife MC Marc Saltzman.

For more on the day’s events at Rogers TabLife TO, check out posts by MobileSyrup, Engadget and The Cellular Guru.

Did you attend Rogers TabLife TO? Do you have any feedback on the event?

Rob Manne is a regular contributor to RedBoard.

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  1. clone7 says: December 7th, 2010 a 11:38am

    Questions for the rogers people.
    “Rogers also announced new data sharing plans that enable customers to seamlessly and easily share data from one plan across multiple devices. With these new plans, customers can take their existing plans and apply a data sharing add-on for as low as an additional $15 per month.”

    I have a 6gb per month blackberry data plan. When the playbook comes out will i be able to teather off my blackberry with NO COST or do i need to pay $15 a month to “share the data”.

    Thanks

  2. RogersRob says: December 7th, 2010 a 11:52am

    Hi Clone7, typically in that scenario there would be an additional charge to share the data.

    That said, the $30/6GB sharing promotion we offered earlier this summer has expired, and sharing plans are not compatible with expired limited time offers.

    That said, 6GB customers like you are important to us, and we’re exploring whether we can introduce data sharing options for them again in the future.

    • clone7 says: December 7th, 2010 a 12:48pm

      Sorry can you plesae clarify.

      i thought that the playbook was going to use your blackberry as the data source. Isnt this the same as tethering?

      RIM said you can just use your playbook to your Blackberry to connect to the network.

      You are saying even thought you have a blackberry and a blackberry data plan their will be an addtional charge to use your palybook on your phone?

      IF so how is this differnt from tethering?

      Thanks for your help.

  3. Frank Morissette says: December 7th, 2010 a 2:44pm

    @RogersRob. I have one question. I’ve studied the Blackberry Playbook quite a bit and other technologies). Since the Playbook requires a Blackberry smartphone to tether, would Rogers ask Blackberry to remove this tethering capability? Seeing this clearly bypasses your 6GB + sharing plans. Wifi capable Blackberrys couldn’t use this if they didn’t have a data plan. I know many features can be enabled or disabled.

  4. Brent Hoffman says: December 7th, 2010 a 3:57pm

    @RogersRob.
    I am wondering what the others are asking.
    “Playbook requires a Blackberry smartphone to tether, would Rogers ask Blackberry to remove this tethering capability? ” or charge an extra Data fee (makes no sense)? if you can not asnwer this now please let us know.
    Have a great day.
    Brent

  5. Janet Freud says: December 7th, 2010 a 3:59pm

    @rogers

    How is it fair that we pay for 6gb of data (that we will never hit on our Blackberry) and then Rogers wants to charge us an extra fee to tether seeing that you need a Blackberry to use the playbook in the first place.

    Cheers,
    Jan

    • RogersRob says: December 8th, 2010 a 9:39am

      @Janet @Brent @Frank @Clone7:

      Hi everyone,

      Seems there’s some confusion with our tethering policy and the new shared plans. My previous comment referred to the new shared plans in general.

      Since the PlayBook isn’t currently available, it’s difficult to confirm what policies will apply right now.

      But for current devices that offer tethering-like functionality, customers are able to use according to the current tethering policy, which you can see here. As it stands, generally those with data plans of 1 GB and above (including 6 GB customers) are able to tether with eligible devices.

      Hope that answers your questions.