Category: Editorial
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Advertising via Automated Phone Message, a bad idea.
I sent this email to The Brick furniture store today after an absolutely stupid ‘phone’ call. It was sent in two parts; to the store where the call originated and to the Customer Service center. I’m really curious to see what, if anything, happens next!! ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– To: Mr. Brick or whoever deletes emails at your…
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REALLY??
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : What’s the #1 most crazy idea Steve Ballmer has ever heard?: “‘You’re going to take an iPod and add a radio to it and turn it into a phone? And you’re going to charge five hundred dollars for a phone? A phone that plays music? Well, good luck…
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Apple To Stop Including Adobe Flash In All MacBooks
Apple responds on missing Flash in new MacBook Airs, says get used to it — Engadget: “We’re happy to continue to support Flash on the Mac, and the best way for users to always have the most up to date and secure version is to download it directly from Adobe.” We mentioned this in Episode…
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Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Calls It A Day
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, is calling it quits — Engadget: “Ballmer doesn’t plan to fill the ‘unique’ role of Chief Software Architect when he’s gone.” Just one more example of how Microsoft is slowly losing the war and grip on reality. Windows 7 is a pretty good effort, I would even say the…
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Bell Canada Gives The Great White Shaft to Data Users
Bell Canada to charge $10 tariff for HSPA+ access? « Boy Genius Report: “BGR has just obtained a memo that indicates Bell customers will have to fork over a $10 per month premium for access to the company’s HSPA+ wireless network.” This story really pissed me off this morning, especially after reading last week’s report…
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Douglas Adams Would Have Been Proud! 101010
Douglas Adams Day!: “Forty-two, said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. … Forty-two! yelled Loonquawl. Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a half million years’ work? I checked it very thoroughly, said the computer, and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with…
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GoogleTV Hardware Is Too Expensive and Lackluster
Google TV launch hardware looks to be expensive, clunky: “Are consumers ready to use a keyboard with their TV?” You might have noticed that we have been focussing pretty hard on the recent string of “Stream To Your TV” devices launched, Steve and I each got an AppleTV and Eric seems to be holding out…
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Lazy Beats Free: Ease Over Piracy
Over The Hedge: My good buddy Eric AKA @Schultzter sent me this comic as an @reply on Twitter this morning probably as some sort of jibe over the fact that Steve McGoo (@mtl_steve) and I have gone a little gaga over the new AppleTV and the recent introduction of Netflix.ca with its too good to…
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The Fanboys of Downing Street
PM David Cameron: ON iPads and Wireless Music: “I’m very proud of the fact that I’ve got an iMac and I’ve got a speaker remotely linked without a wire which I did myself. I have all the music on the iMac. The cool thing is that I now control my iMac from the iPad, to…