Month: March 2012
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Sony making it easier for developers to build custom ROMs for Xperia S
This is exactly what I expected from Android when it was first announced, before it was released, and then we saw what the manufacturers were doing and where the carriers were taking it. The device should be just hardware, you added some drivers to the OS provided by Google (or Cyanogen or MIUI or …)…
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FAA Reviewing Policy on Electronic Gadgets
So they’re finally going to considering letting us do what plenty of people already do: get in one last e-mail as the plane accelerates down the runway! How many times have you been getting on to a flight and seen the people around you tapping away on their Blackberry? I was always told they have…
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How Collaboration Drove Britannica Out of Print
Wikipedia is definitely a shining example of how the voluntary collaboration between complete strangers, completely un-managed and un-coordinate can produce amazing results!!! There are plenty of other examples too, but Wikipedia is one we can all appreciate because we can all participate – there’s some subject to which any of us can contribute. Many years…
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Telecommunications Decisions
Lifting foreign ownership restrictions and 700 Mhz auction in Canada Another political comprise wrapped in campaign speech, the latest telecom decisions serve only to ensure Canadians continue to suffer the worst mobile service in the modern world! At first glance – and that’s all Harper wants you to do – it looks good: lifting foreign…
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Bill C-11 Committee Review Concludes: What Happened and What Comes Next
Basically the Harper government has scrapped the gun registry in favour of an iPod registry! It won’t be long before anyone with an MP3 player, a PVR, or other moden electronic device (pretty much everyone) is violating the copyright laws in Canada. We’ll see how aggressively our entertainment industry pursues their new powers over our…
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The cultural divide on data protection – USA vs EU
“The cloud” is in these days, everything has to be “in the cloud” or “come from the cloud.” Apple even has an iCloud so you know that cloud is uber-cool when that happens. But somewhere along the way there’s a few physical servers storing all that data. And they’re physically in a country, maintained and…
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE Review
This review was made possible with the generous support of Pop Radiator! This weekend I had the opportunity to play with a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 with LTE. It’s a great Android Honeycomb tablet with connectivity every where you go thanks to the LTE radio. I only had the tablet for the weekend, and quite…
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DadCast Episode 44 • The Kid and the Pirates of Id
Nearly Live From the Wendyhouse studios of Valois Bay… This week the Dads managed to lure Steph out of the dungeons just long enough record a show before he heads off on his whirlwind tour of the Carribean searching for Blackbeards treasure which just happens be to Bluetooth’s headset. The also take some time to…
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My weekly Dad’s reads, March 5th to 11th 2012
My favourite articles of the week: Raspberry Pi (momentarily) more popular than Lady Gaga… Amid ETF hoopla, don’t overlook index funds Buried deep in this article is the the little tidbit that a few online brokers, Scotia iTrade, Qtrade and Virtual Brokers, offer commission-free ETF’s (not all, but some) Can Dell Slay the Leviathan With…