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Category: Editorial

  • On Banning Apps and Care-taking: Apple vs the World

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    Johnny Canuck
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    BGR reported on Tuesday about an application that attempted to trick users into setting a passcode identical to the pin used to lock their iPhones. The app then transmitted the PIN numbers in the background to the developer — albeit anonymously — who used them to publish a report covering the most commonly used iPhone…

  • RIM Stock Drops to a Four Year Low

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    Johnny Canuck
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    From TechRadar It seems that investors have got the jitters as Apple nabs yet another key BlackBerry USP; iMessage is an instant messaging service for Apple devices on iOS 5, just as BlackBerry Messenger is for BlackBerry users. On Tuesday, RIMs stock fell to below $37 for the first time since 2007, a tumble of…

  • BlackBerry’s PlayBook Doesn’t Play Fair

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Once again this morning, I arrived at work and yet another tablet device was thrown onto my desk with a post it saying: “I want my mail on this“. This has become a regular thing over the past couple of weeks and as usual I jump at the challenge of trying to see how a…

  • The iPhone Goes Where No Mac Has Gone Before

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    Johnny Canuck
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    After a year of using a MacBook full-time in the workplace, my new job has placed me in a position where I am using a Windows Lappie again. There are some good things that are worth giving up for even better opportunities. No matter how humbling it is for a developer to suddenly have his…

  • There’s no App for this.

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    Burg42
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    Let’s leave modern tech and all the shiny behind for a minute, to concentrate on a more fundamental level of existence: survival. We are frail creatures whose needs are very basic in biological terms; food, water, shelter and security. Everything that we do is an unconscious derivative of these needs.  We’ve accomplished much for our…

  • Mobile Browser Woes

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Via XKCD Funny enough I started my new job today and without knowing what kind of hardware I would be assigned or what the new corporate firewall would allow me to do, I’ve had to rely pretty heavily on Mobile Safari. Even though it’s pretty damn powerful and the screen size of the iPad is…

  • RIP Nokia

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    Schultzter
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    And so today, we bid adieu to Nokia from the smart phone world. I will always admire the Nokia phones I owned; but I don’t think I’ll buying any more.

  • Why I Love Indie MAc.Apps!

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    Johnny Canuck
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    This little snippet of conversation, which I hope Julien Smith doesn’t mind me using to prove a point here, is exactly why I love the slew of awesome indie apps available for Mac OS X. Whether, it’s other apps from Ambrosia, Rogue Amoeba or Panic, reactions and immediate feedback from the likes of Daniel Jalkut…

  • Analogy was a German and Italian psychedelic rock, progressive rock band

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    Schultzter
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    Bandwidth is not electricity or gas! So please stop your inane comparisons and suggestions that we “rip-out the electricity meters” or “give as away for free!”

  • Of Coffins, Nails, and Innovation

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    Schultzter
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    Recently our national department of influence and lobbying – the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission or CRTC (our version of the FCC) – approved of usage based billing for internet service providers. This means that owners of the big pipes can charge the little providers of your access for all the bits and bytes they send…