Business and Technology news of the day
Would you want up to three billion dollars of your country’s tax dollars spent on your own online surveillance? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dZILMivNgI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=balfXRHLNK4 Last week, Dennis Drainville, the bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Quebec wrote a scathing piece about the bill and how the Stephen Harper government is minimizing the role Read more…
There are several ready ways to add a live, updating stock information to your site: Wikinvest.com allows you to customize the chart and then provides ready access to the embed code, similar to a YouTube Embed. See blog.wikinvest.com/2008/08/01/finally-embed-a-real-stock-chart-on-your-blog-or-website If you want more information than just a chart, finance.yahoo.com/badges is a real winner. Read more…
This chart from www.businessinsider.com shows some of the larger IPO’s and how they have performed over their first 5 days. Pavel Durov, founder of the hugely popular Russian social network VKontakte said the Facebook IPO caused such a chill with investors that they have indefinitely postponed ther IPO. Keep in mind that Read more…
Have you ever had a disk fail and need to replace it with the identical model… but that model is discontinued. Well, you can use www.diskcompare.com to VERY easily find a substitute. In my case I had a dead Seagate 15K SAS ST3300656SS which I replaced with ST3300657SS based on diskcompare.com/item/3641/ . Read more…
Office 15 (likely Office 2013) is in private beta now and will have a public beta your can play with next month, in June 2012. The product should release to manufacturing (RTM) late this year and likely be available to buy very early in 2013. Initially users will notice that the Read more…
Avast! Mobile Security for Android is fast, free and comprehensive. Just click on this comparison grid below (from www.androidpolice.com ) to see how it stacks up against AVG, Norton, Kaspersky, Lookout, McAfee and others. On the Avast site it is rated 4.7 out of five by end users and you Read more…
You likely know, unless you believe Apple advertising, that Samsung alone has ball crushing sales numbers. Samsung’s Android business is larger than Apples iPhone… and that is just Samsung; there are dozens of notable Android manufacturers so it should come as no surprise how much Android dominates. The iPhone 4 Read more…
On Friday Facebook began trading a $38 a share, went up a few dollars momentarily and now has dropped to an emberassing $31.00 in just two days. Often people see a declining share price as a great time to buy, but consider this, I had read that about 10 days before Read more…
Published reports are that Blackberry killed two of three OS10 phones they were working on, the Milan and the Colt. I was interested in both of these and now Blackberry is apparently only working on London which I am sooo not interested in. BlackBerry Colt: Basically a Blackberry Bold running Read more…
“Finally, initial sales of another smartphone smoke iPhone — that is if leaked numbers prove true. Samsung Galaxy S III goes on sale in 11 days, but preorders reportedly already top 9 million. By comparison, the much-lauded iPhone 4S sold 4 million units, including preorders, during its first three days Read more…
The Chestermere Rec Center is the site for a World Record 10.5 Day non-stop hockey game to raise money for the Calgary Children’s Hospital. As of today, day 3, they have received substantial support totaling near $700,000 and there are a few big cheques yet to come in. However without Read more…
Well, a lot of readers will ask; what is 4K, or as it is sometimes refered to QFHD (Quad Full High Definition)? Put simply “4K” is 4000 pixels x 2160 pixels. So if I have a TV that is 1920×1080 (so called 1080P) now, why would I want twice that number of Read more…
Samsung released an amazing Android 4 phone. Watch the video review below to see some very neat interface improvements on existing technology. This is yet another device that crushes the Apple iPhone. 1.4 GHz quad-core Exynos processor supported by a new graphics processing unit (reportedly around 65-percent faster than the GPU Read more…
If you have ever worked with a white board before you know its primarly limitation is capturing your results and distributing them. We have solved that problem with the eBeam which we sell, setup and train users on (not that there is much training to the simple but powerful system) Note Read more…
A friend recently needed to send the audio of his child singing a song to an audition service but all he had was a 200MB video; what to do? In this case, we pushed the 200MB up to my YouTube site and also stripped the audio to a stand alone Read more…
This video shows a generic looking device with no brands (including, no Blackberry name or logo), which RIM apparently gave to the attendees of the 2012 Mobile World Congress (MWC) . From previous announcements I understand that a final Blackberry hardware design has not been settled on and I also understand Read more…