Author: Schultzter
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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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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…
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Balanced Copyright Law in Canada, Bill C-11
Copyright reform is a never ending saga in Canada, to learn more about it, check this copywriting marketing classes. Well, saga might be a generous description. The current Conservative government is making another attempt right now with Bill C-11. Currently it is in committee for review, mainly because reviewing it in parliament makes it obvious…
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TomTom Via 1435 TM review
This boxing day I headed out for a bit of toy shopping in preparation for our trip out of the country so we could find cool things to do in Costa Rica without getting lost. It has been long time since I’ve been out on Boxing Day, shopping on-line is so much more convenient. I…
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Evernote vs. Springpad
As you know from reading my last post, Arc the Herald Angels Sing, Glory to the Sony Ericsson! I’m still looking for a good note taking and task management application. I figured I’d be using Evernote since that’s what everyone else is using. But a comment from a co-worker made me take a second look…
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Arc the Herald Angels Sing, Glory to the Sony Ericsson!
Yes, I know, I’m going straight to hell. But then Lord Jobs probably wasn’t going to let me in to heaven anyways! It’s been over a week now that I’m using a Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and I still always try to spell it Experia! Unlocking the phone to use on my network was the…
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Motorola PRO+ the Blackberry Killer! Err, wait a minute?!
Today Motorola announced the PRO+: a 4G Blackberry look-a-like with a touch screen and keyboard. I thought we had all pretty much agreed that Blackberry was going to languish in a painful death spiral, with BBX being it’s final, Shakespearian monologue. I didn’t think anyone would jump on the hey, if you want a blackberry but don’t…