By: James Falconer, IntoMobile Friday, March 20th, 2009 at 7:58 AM
Yesterday marked the first official day of competition at the 2009 LG Canadian Texting Championships. The event is put on by LG to help promote their devices and encourage texting (via an LG device of course!). The event is taking place at Toronto’s Eaton Centre over the next few days. Trust me, if you’re in the mall you’ll find it. The winner will receive a cool $25,000… all for having the fastest thumbs. Following the Toronto event, the championships will run across Canada only to return to Toronto for the finals on June 29th. A video of the official welcome/contest kick-off is above. Good luck to all the contestants!
James was born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada. Almost 15 years ago he started out in the 'real world' as a web and graphic designer. Through the years he has finely tuned his skills in SEO, internet marketing, conversion strategy, and project management. To date, he runs his own successful consulting business where he advises companies all over the globe. A co-founder of www.crackberry.com, and sole proprietor of www.mactropolis.com, James in recent years has become very active in the tech blogosphere. Online community building and strategy is fast becoming one of his passions. Watch for James' no frills attitude, unique perspective and to-the-point comments here on IntoMobile!