Category: Stuff
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World of Warcraft – Authentication Frustration and now relief
I have been playing World of Warcraft for over 5 years thanks to a great friend of mine living out West (Obe). I can honestly say that I am not an addict nor am I constantly plugged in as some gamers are. I am a leisure player, playing when I have spare time, not making…
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Google’s Dropbox competitor will reportedly launch in April
The famed, mysterious G-Drive is apparently finally coming to the internet! There have long been reports since 2006 that the G-Drive, used internally at Google as Platypus, was coming. It’s hard to imagine that the initial, free, limit is 1 GB when services like Drop Box offer 2 GB and Sugar Sync offers 5 GB.…
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Apple iPhone: Top of Pops for Canucks
Apple surpassed RIM as the top mobile phone manufacturer in Canada said Bloomberg on Thursday. Data from IDC and Bloomberg suggests Apple shipped 2.85 million handsets in 2011, while RIM shipped 2.08 million. This is down from 2008 when RIM out shipped Apple almost five to one. We all saw this coming months ago, but…
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Sony making it easier for developers to build custom ROMs for Xperia S
This is exactly what I expected from Android when it was first announced, before it was released, and then we saw what the manufacturers were doing and where the carriers were taking it. The device should be just hardware, you added some drivers to the OS provided by Google (or Cyanogen or MIUI or …)…
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FAA Reviewing Policy on Electronic Gadgets
So they’re finally going to considering letting us do what plenty of people already do: get in one last e-mail as the plane accelerates down the runway! How many times have you been getting on to a flight and seen the people around you tapping away on their Blackberry? I was always told they have…
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How Collaboration Drove Britannica Out of Print
Wikipedia is definitely a shining example of how the voluntary collaboration between complete strangers, completely un-managed and un-coordinate can produce amazing results!!! There are plenty of other examples too, but Wikipedia is one we can all appreciate because we can all participate – there’s some subject to which any of us can contribute. Many years…
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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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Mobility Stuff We Read This Week
Here are the top mobility articles we found this week. Apple’s March 7th event roundup: the new iPad, Apple TV refresh and everything else — Engadget Apple iOS 5.1 hands-on video iOS 5.1 gets tethered jailbreak for non-A5 iPads, iPhones and iPods This is for older devices that don’t take advantage of the moving boot…