Tag: Amazon
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Building a Better Tablet
“In 2012, XYZ Co have to build a better tablet [..] A REAL iPad competitor” I hear this far too often, and for all the wrong reasons. Whether it’s from die hard Google-Lovers like Gina Tripani, BlackBerry-centric tech-blogs or Apple haters, the top item on everyone’s agenda is to release an iPad level tablet at…
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Stop, Drop, and Roll — the Kindle is on Fire!
So the Kindle Fire has been announced, followed by the iPhone 5 – no wait, the 4S, and we’ve got Google, RIM, Nokia and everyone else lining up for their shot at end-of-year/pre-shopping killer announcements. Of course the iPhone 5iPhone 4S killed them all, but that’s not surprising and hardly worth debating. Nothing to talk…
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Silky Privacy Concerns
What about handling secure (https) connections? We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf for page requests of sites using SSL (e.g. https://siteaddress.com). Amazon Silk will facilitate a direct connection between your device and that site. Any security provided by these particular sites to their users would…
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Amazon Lights Up Android’s Fork in the Road with Kindle Fire
What does Amazon have that Motorola, HTC, Samsung, LG, Huawei do not? In a word … everything. That pretty much sums it up quite nicely, must of us were hoping that Google and Amazon would have teamed up a little better on this and developed and true iPad competitor. Unfortunately, the reality is that…
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The RESP Book, by Mike Holman @MoneySmartsBlog
Back in November the Young And Thrifty blog had a review of The RESP Book, by Mike Holman and a contest to win a copy. And I WON!!! And now, thanks to the reality that my car is dead (well almost, sometimes it’s feeling a bit better, but really it’s quite ill) I’m commuting by train so I…
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DadCast Episode 25 • You’re Not in Kansas Anymore McGoo
Nearly Live From the WendyHouse Studios of Valois Bay… Just ahead of the big Apple “Back to the Mac” announcement on October 20th that may or may not be about a new OS. The rumour mill has it that it should be 10.7 and not simply an incremental dot release. We should point out that…
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Schultzter’s Holiday Reading List
So what is the Schultzter going to be reading this holiday season? Here’s a quick look…
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Johnny Canuck’s Holiday Reading List
So what am I reading these days? The holidays are coming up and if their is a special geek in your life, you might want to pick up copy of some of my geek favourites. If you use the links below, you’ll be taken to Amazon.CA and your purchase will help to keep The 2…
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PaaS for the hobbyist
Now that we’ve all gotten over our infatuation with SaaS (back from Wikipedia yet? Ok, let’s move on) it’s time to talk about PaaS (off to Wikipedia again aren’t you?!). Platform as a Service is a great idea. Back in the good ‘ol daystm®© we used to share our time on the mainframe provided by…
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Amazon.ca Finally Goes Electronics: Front Page is Zunetastic?!?
Amazon.ca has finally opened its electronics store and just in time for Christmas. The products selections seems like a good start, however they went ahead and featured the M$ Zune as it’s big homepage seller. I just hope this is not a forecast of a crappy electronics offering to come for Canadians. So far the…