Author: Schultzter
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The Google Chromebook Sells Out!
Google’s latest iteration of ChromeOS hardware has very impressively sold-out almost as soon as it went on sale. The new hardware is attractive for a number of reasons: it’s thin, it’s light, it features a lot of the latest technology like Bluetooth 3.0, USB 3, and dual-antenna a/b/g/n wi-fi (and we know there’s a mobile-wireless…
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What The Hell Just Happened At Google?
If you read the actual SEC filing of Google’s third quarter you realise this entire non-event was created by bloggers who apparently had nothing better to report. SEC filings don’t make for very interesting blog posts though. So, meh. Source: SEC Via: Read Write Web Cross-posted on Schultzter’s Blog
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CRTC announces Proceeding to establish a mandatory code for mobile wireless services
The CRTC has just announced a Proceeding to establish a mandatory code for mobile wireless services. In theory this is a great move. In reality this is lip-service to a disillusioned and misguided public. The reality is that his will not lead to any meaningful change in Canada’s wireless landscape, because: The telcos will voluntarily…
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RBC Royal Bank’s myFinanceTracker Review
For some time now the RBC Royal Bank of Canada has offered an on-line, web-based personal finance application called myFinanceTracker. This is actually Yodlee presented through the RBC’s Online Banking web-site, with a bit of branding and curating. I’ve taken it for a test drive on a few occasions and have a bit of experience…
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Waxing nostalgic about keyboards
When I first learned to type it was on a type writer! A manual, slam-the-keys type writer. After writing a paper on one of these things your finger muscles positively bulged and your wrists were sweating. It was a cardio work-out! Then came computers and the venerable IBM keyboards. You know the ones, that were…
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What will replace iGoogle?
In just over a year – on November 1st, 2013 – Google will pull the plug on another service. This time it won’t be some obscure 20% project that only handful of people ever heard about, let alone used. This time it will be iGoogle! iGoogle is the start page for a lot of internet…
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First Impression Review of ownCloud 4
Everyone has gone cloud these days. All the big companies are offering it. So it comes as no surprise then that individuals would want their own cloud too. And for those people there’s ownCloud! I installed ownCloud 4.0.4 in my shared hosting account. It worked on the second try (it would have worked on the…
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What’s the Best On-Line Portfolio Manager to Track my Investments, part 5 of 5
It’s been a week since we last talked, and I bet you were waiting with tense anticipation for the final instalment! Well, it would seem that my birthday celebrations, mother’s day, and the fact my Bachelors of Arts degree left me with absolutely no artistic ability what-so-ever have come together against me. So here, in…
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Flipboard for Android leaks
So Flipboard for Android was supposed to be an exclusive on Samsung Galaxy S III but it didn’t take long for an intrepid S III owner to pluck the APK from it’s comfortable surroundings and throw out into the wild for all to enjoy!
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Who won in Google vs. Oracle?
The headline over at Boy Genius Report is Jury says Google infringed on Oracle’s copyrights and over at Mobile Syrup it’s Jury reaches split decision in initial Google/Oracle case while at the Verge they say Jury finds Google infringed Oracle copyrights in partial verdict; Google moves for mistrial and over at Phone Area they have…