As a follow-up to our “I’m faster than you” posting, there has been some progress in the Telus vs. Rogers face-off. In a somewhat surprise decision, Telus was granted a temporary injunction today that could eventually force rogers to stop their current campaign strategy. Rogers now admits that, with Telus’ new 21Mbps HSPA network, they [...]
So as a follow-up to my last Chrome OS post, I decided to give it a shot myself. There are a number of ways to do this but I decided to use TechCrunch’s way of doing this. Basically, it’s running Chrome OS in a VM. The steps there are sound and should work for everyone [...]
Hippopost is a company that allows you to send free postcards using your own photos. You can do it using their website, Facebook, or using your mobile. The third option is called HippoMobile and is currently only available for BlackBerry. It allows you to send 2 free postcards per day.
So what’s the catch? Hippopost puts [...]
Two weeks ago, Google bought mobile advertising provider AdMob. Today, google announced that it plans to buy Teracent, an advertisement display company. Teracent owns technology that allows for dynamic advertisement creation and display, allowing for customization based on many factors such as locale, language, website content, etc.
As you can see, Google continues to [...]
When we heard about Chrome OS back in July of this year, I put together this quick overview of my thoughts. It seems my thoughts were aligned with the thoughts of Google. Now Chrome OS has officially been announced. Slated for public release in around a year from now, the project is now officially opened [...]
Microsoft gave a preview of IE9 to developers at PDC today. Microsoft has only been working on IE9 for a few weeks, so don’t expect this thing out anytime soon. However, the preview is boasting improved performance and standards compliance.
Check out the details at the official IE Blog.
It appears Telus is not happy about Rogers’ advertisement claims that it’s Canada’s fastest and most reliable network. In court filings, Telus claims that since their new HSPA network went live earlier this month that Rogers is no longer faster nor more reliable and as such needs to stop their false advertisements. They even asked [...]
But seriously, for those who don’t know, Bing is Microsoft’s latest search engine and it’s been live since June 1, 2009. According to Camscore, Bing now has 9.90% of US Searches. Google has increased to 65.4% while Yahoo is still declining at 18%.
If you’ve tried Bing, please share your thoughts…
I’m sure you’ve seen the barrage of commercials asking you to make noise for or against the Local TV Tax issue that is currently under debate in canada. Today is the day that the hearings begin on this issue. Since this issue may end up effecting your pocket, it may be worthwhile taking a look [...]
There is still much confusion in the public about whether unlocking your wireless phone is a legal activity or not. This confusion is mostly driven by the different messaging you get about phone unlocking depending no who you’re asking. So let’s shed some light on the subject.
First off, what is an unlocked wireless phoneWhen you [...]