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CBC News – Technology & Science – Canadian internet slow, expensive: Harvard
As I have always suspected, we Canadians are indeed being ripped off in the Broadband space. Enough already with being gouged for telecom services in this country! Canadian internet slow, expensive: HarvardLast Updated: Monday, February 22, 2010 | 5:41 PM ET Comments338Recommend254By Peter Nowak, CBC NewsCanada ranks 19th out of 30 countries in broadband internet [...]
Canada Mirrors U.S. Broadband Policy, Gets Same Crap Results – Letting your wealthiest ISPs run government? Shockingly not a great idea… – dslreports.com
Canada Mirrors U.S. Broadband Policy, Gets Same Crap ResultsLetting your wealthiest ISPs run government? Shockingly not a great idea…01:09PM Monday Feb 22 2010 by Karl Bodetags: competition · coverage · business · Op/Ed · legislation · world · consumers · Bell Sympatico · TekSavvy Solutions Inc.We've often talked about how Canada was actually seeing some [...]
State to ‘spy’ on every phone call, email and web search
This is some pretty scary stuff. I don’t plan on visiting the UK any time soon or in the future. What the hell is going on over there. Just because you have the technical ability to do something, doesn’t mean you should. Geeeezzzz!!! State to ‘spy’ on every phone call, email and web searchEvery phone [...]
Canada’s cellphone rates among highest – The Globe and Mail
I have been saying this for a while now and still feel we are being ripped off royally by Canadian Wireless providers, however, there are some interesting details in the actual numbers in the article. The method of assessing cost in the analysis is somewhat slanted and would only cover an average “bundle” of services [...]
CRTC tax could mean $100 million hike in cable tv rates
Here’s your government working for you. The CRTC are a bunch of outdated out of touch f’tards! The CRTC today announced that it will tax cable and satellite companies 1.5% of their gross revenues in the upcoming broadcast year in order to fund its recently created Local Programming Improvement Fund LIPF. The LIPF tax, which [...]
Tech consumers frustrated by Canadian roadblocks
I’ve been saying this for some time now…… Waited a year for iPhone, still waiting for a Kindle! Tech consumers frustrated by Canadian roadblocks by Paul Jay, CBC News When Amazon released the Kindle 2 earlier this year, Canadians still weren’t able to buy even the original reader.When Amazon released the Kindle 2 earlier this [...]
Retailer resells computer drive full of personal files
I find these accusations disturbing and placing the responsibility of wiping data on the reseller is wrong. All individuals need to take responsibility for THEIR data. If I was to return a Hard Drive, or any media for that matter, I would make darn sure said data was eradicated. Its not that technical [...]
Generation scrap – 20 somethings jostle with IT vets for same jobs
Well, thank crap I am no a boomer or a milennia….. I am in the middle with a little bit of both! Is that bad? When Bill Horne sauntered into an evening meet-and-greet being held by a local packaging company in search of fresh IT talent, the retired computer engineer knew his chances of leaving [...]
The Surface of the Sun is in Santa Barbara
Be sure to check out the HD version…. Fire sucks! Tea / Las Alturas Fire, Santa Barbara California from Patrick Lawler on Vimeo.
Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline
The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide plummeted on Tuesday after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations engaged in spam activity was taken offline. (Note: A link to the full story on McColo’s demise is available here.) Experts say the precipitous drop-off in spam comes [...]