Author: Johnny Canuck
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Michael Geist on RIM’s Woes and The Canadian Telecom Policy
This is an excellent piece from one of Canada’s premier columnist on technology law issues and law professor at the University of Ottawa. this particular article takes up the argument that the Canadian Government should step in to assist RIM in order to avoid another “Nortel” disaster. We have already spoken up about this aid…
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Blackberry Market Share Continues to Nose Dive; Android, iOS Keeps Soaring
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS, for example, saw it’s market share drop precipitously from 28 percent in the second quarter of 2010 to 11 percent in the second quarter of 2011. The resulting hit on the Blackberry Market share is remarkable but not very surprising considering the year they have had. I curious to see…
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iOS Devices May Be Cheaper To Support Than Blackberry and Android
BlackBerry users cost[..] North American carriers in aggregate $46 million more a year to support than iPhone users, and Android users cost[..] $97 million more a year. I would like to see the actual report before making any real conclusions but these number are startling via Another reason to go iPhone: It’s cheaper to support…
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Smartphone Messenger Apps Compared
A very interesting comparison on various new messenger apps for smartphone: Facebook Messenger, Google+ Huddle and Apple iOS iMessage. The only other important one missing from the list is BlackBerry’s BBM. GigaOm.
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Basic Instructions on how to care for your smartphone
It’s quite sad how true this really is. Via Android and Me.
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Apple Store Opening 3km from RIM Waterloo Headquarters
Seriously, The new store is literally down the street from the RIM Campus where Mike and Jim have been trying to get QNX to fit into a BlackBerry or PlayBook device that actually works. What would be great is if the line-ups from the hopefully soon to be announced iPhone 5 manage to reach all…
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Forkbombr: Mac Community Crushed By Lion’s Non-Release, Cries out for Mercy
This is one if the funniest and most clever ForkBombr pieces by Stephen in a long time, I am so glad he is finally putting that journalism degree to good use. No quotes, no summaries, just head on over and read it…. RIGHT NOW! Forkbombr — Mac Community Crushed By Lion’s Non-Release, Cries out for…
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3G iPod Touch Concept: Cool & Highly Unlikely!
via 9to5Mac.com We took this concept to Photoshop, and we came up with the iPod Touch 3G. It looks exactly like the current iPod Touch, but has a black strip on the back. It also says “3G” in the menu bar. Along with that, it also features an integrated SIM card, as the next iPhone…
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Prepping for The John Siracusa OS X Lion Review
A huge nod to Stephen at Forkbombr for the find. New OS X release reviews from John Siracusa at Ars Technica are always fantastic although very long read. I think the Snow Leopard review took a few days to get through and at least a few weeks to digest properly. Forkbombr — Preparing for John…
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We’re @ WordCamp Montreal 2011 Today
I’m mostly hanging out in the chaufferie today, stop by and say hi. More later. UPDATE 14:45 Been spending most of the day in the Blue developer path, the green path in for newbies and form what I hear the talk are all really good. I just wanted to get more in site into what…