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  • How Badly Does Samsung Want To Be Apple?

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    Samsung gets official with Galaxy Tab accessory lineup — Engadget: “The two standouts are undoubtedly the Keyboard Dock and Multimedia Desk Dock, which each also double as a charger and pack a 3.5mm audio output, plus an HDMI out on the multimedia dock — look for them to set you back £69.99 and £39.99, respectively…

  • Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Calls It A Day

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    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…

  • Bell Canada Gives The Great White Shaft to Data Users

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    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…

  • Douglas Adams Would Have Been Proud! 101010

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    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…

  • GoogleTV Hardware Is Too Expensive and Lackluster

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    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…

  • Lazy Beats Free: Ease Over Piracy

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    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…

  • Upgrades

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    Upgrades I’m pretty sure this is what happened to @Schultzter at the end of DadCast 21.

  • The Fanboys of Downing Street

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    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…

  • Here comes Google TV

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    So while my buddies over a 2FatDads have been busy buying up all the local stock of AppleTV‘s for every room in their house (even ones without a TV), I’ve been patiently waiting for Google TV! And now it’s here. Almost. Update: Logitech has announced their set-top box, the Revue, and it’s available for pre-order!…

  • Google To Set New Image Standard For The Web: WebP

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    Chromium Blog: WebP, a new image format for the Web: “Images and photos make up about 65% of the bytes transmitted per web page today. They can significantly slow down a user’s web experience, especially on bandwidth-constrained networks such as a mobile network. Images on the web consist primarily of lossy formats such as JPEG,…