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by Karim Kanji
on Thu, March 18, 2010 7:57 AM
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Whether Canada owned the podium or not, one thing is clear: The Olympic Consortium, headed up by CTV, owned the Olympics. Over the course of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, over 28 million videos were viewed and more than 215 million pages were viewed on CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca.According to their...
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by Karim Kanji
on Tue, March 16, 2010 12:30 PM
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Late last year Toronto-based Globalive launched it's WIND Mobile brand in Canada. It was hoped that the emergence of new companies would force companies like Bell and Rogers to lower their fees in the face of new competition.
However, earlier this month, the wind stopped blowing in WIND's favour. It has...
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by Karim Kanji
on Tue, March 16, 2010 11:24 AM
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Who really provides the best deal in Canada? When it comes to wireless the debate, in public at least, has been going on for years. Rogers Wireless recently called themseves the MOST relieable network. Telus filed a complaint. Now Rogers is just reliable. Did anything really change. Probably not. You...
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by Dilip Tinnelvelly
on Fri, March 12, 2010 7:06 AM
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Google search gets pushed out of Motorola’s Chinese phones. Will Bing be taken more seriously after this?
Even as Google is in talks with the Chinese government that will decide its fate in the country, Motorola has decided not to take any chances and go with Microsoft’s Bing search software for...
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by Karim Kanji
on Tue, March 9, 2010 7:51 PM
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Back in January, at the Consumer Electronics Show, Chevrolet announced a joint venture program with OnStar which unveiled the auto industry’s first working smartphone application that will allow Chevrolet Volt owners 24/7 connection and control of vehicle functions and OnStar features remotely. The app allows drivers...
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by Warren Frey
on Fri, March 5, 2010 8:41 PM
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Canpages, the upstart challenger to the Yellow Pages, has scored another minor coup with their Canada Eye app. Starting Monday, the app will be available with an augmented reality feature dubbed "the eye" which uses the iPhone 3GS compass and GPS functionality to overlay labels in real world images.
Simply open...
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by Robert Janelle
on Fri, March 5, 2010 10:01 AM
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Old 20th century industrial models are holding back the expansion of high speed Internet access across North America, according to a Harvard law professor.
Delivering the keynote address at the University of Ottawa launch conference for Centre for Law, Technology and Society, Yochai Benkler detailed the challenges related to expanding next...
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by Karim Kanji
on Fri, March 5, 2010 9:15 AM
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If mobile apps are the future today then the Sun Media group of newspapers may be the future.It was recently announced that the news app developed by Sun Media and Five Mobile for Apple’s iPhone has been successful so far. With less than five months in the...
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by Rob Lewis
on Wed, March 3, 2010 11:07 AM
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Calgary's Multiplied Media announced today that its award winning BlackBerry application Poynt is now available from the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The Poynt application connects BlackBerry and iPhone users to local businesses, people, restaurants and movie theaters wherever and whenever the information is needed.
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