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Canada News Complete 1.0 (Mobile)

Canada News Complete provides you the access to 21 news sites of Canada. It features instant one touch access to any of 21 news source, each source is optimized for iPod and iPhone giving a pleasant reading experience, email a link from within the app which is very unique feature...

Tags: Mobile, Canada, PLAVEB, Canada News Complete, E-mail, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-18

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Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don't ask Microsoft

RE: Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don't ask MicrosoftI built my current desktop in July and purchased/installed an OEM version of Vista Home Premium. I also took advantage of Microsoft's free upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium which I installed on the same PC....

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Operating systems, cost difference, Microsoft Corp., OEM, Is it OK, Microsoft Windows, PC

Discussion threads 2009-11-15

Canada scandal illustrates perils of health IT stimulus

I love it... you do a story that involves tech, and nobody says anythingPeople just like to complain. If this was a Health Reform article, you would have people screaming and crying all over TalkBackFUDDisappointing Dana, I would have thought you were above this type of FUD.RE: Canada scandal illustrates...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, health-IT, stimulus

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

TD Bank botches IT system consolidation; Customer havoc ensues

But hey, don't worry... TD's got you covered.As reported in the local news last night, a woman who went to withdraw money from her account to pay her rent found that the ATM would not let her. So after discussing the situation with TD bank employees at her branch,...

Tags: Financial services, information technology, Regis, TD Bank, bank, IT system consolidation

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Apple ends iPhone exclusive distribution deal in the UK ... US next?

The announcement will have more fanfare than the one in the UKErm...not in the UK it will not.Can't see it's such a big dealIn Australia, iPhone was available on a number of carriers simultaneously at its first launch. That was August last year, so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., carrier, CDMA, Verizon Communications Inc., GSM, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Swine Flu: Where to find virus, track outbreak, learn symptoms, more

The Swine Flu, officially the Swine influenza A (H1N1) virus, is spreading rapidly around the world. Here's a guide to what's going on, what you can do and where to stay updated on the situation. The Situation The contagious virus...

Tags: Andrew Nusca, CDC, Cyberthreats, Flu, H1N1 flu, Healthcare, Public Health Emergency, Security, Virus, Viruses And Worms

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Massive Chinese spynet targeted Dalai Lama

Massive Chinese spynet targeted Dalai LamaTerrible lawyering but good detective workJust because the Chinese Govt. has and acts on the information doesn't really pin the act of stealing the information on them.If I had that information and knew I could sell it, I would.Our intelligence agencies gather information in any...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Operating systems, Dalai Lama, hacking, Massive

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

Should Microsoft kick the Zune to the Island of the Misfit Toys?

Should Microsoft kick the Zune to the Island of the Misfit Toys?No real effortI don't understand MS on this issue, i see little effort on the advertising side. And they don't seem to want to support the community. I live in Canada, and i have had my Zune 8 since...

Tags: Media players, Digital music, Digital media, Word processors, Microsoft Office, Strategy, Market Place, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., media player

Discussion threads 2009-01-24

Internet Inauguration: The Interactive Introduction of the Obama Presidency

Watching Barack Obama on television be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States seems so 1960. Particularly when the first-term Illinois senator ascended to the highest office in the land based on a masterful use of every available tool on the Internet, from...

Tags: Coverage, Fox News, Obama Adminstration, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Games, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-19

What do the British really believe about global warming?

What do the British really believe about global warming?lolu got ot be kidding meRE: What do the British really believe about global warming?You have got to be kidding! I can not remember when it really snowed properly in the UK, we are seeing greater instances or extreme weather such...

Tags: Now Let, global warming, climate change, British Public

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Apple: All signs point to a more business friendly iPhone

Apple: All signs point to a more business friendly iPhoneApple getting ahead of itselfHow about making the iPhone / Touch a USB mass storage device?People are forking out $500 for a 32gig touch... why doesn't safari allow downloads of files while browsing?Enterprise-grade equipment indeed. Apple needs to get over it's...

Tags: Keyboards, E-mail, Web browsers, Most Phones, RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-28

What's on Microsoft's agenda for 2008?

What's on Microsoft's agenda for 2008?Obviously do better of courseMicrosoft has some nice products and services going, and hopefully, Microsoft will give them some more polish, cutting off the rough edges, and making it more presentable and usable to more people. Also with increased competition, Microsoft I bet, is striving...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-12-18

A light-powered toothbrush?

Would you like to use a light-powered toothbrush which needs no toothpaste and no batteries? It's already available in Japan and North America and it costs about $30. Its rod contains titanium dioxide that generates a plaque-removing electrochemical reaction. This 'solar' toothbrush of the future 'works by releasing electrons that...

Tags: Electron, Light, Rod, Soladey, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-24

800,000 computers to fight cancer

Canadian researchers have started the "Help Conquer Cancer" initiative. They hope to accelerate their research by using the computers of 330,000 people who volunteered to give their idle computer time to the "World Community Grid," the largest public humanitarian grid, a project sponsored by IBM. In fact, they hope to...

Tags: Team, Researcher, Protein, Computer, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-07

Augmented reality onboard the ISS?

According to a brief news release from Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, researchers from NASA and Lockheed Martin have successfully tested a software for a robotic extension device that has been shown to dramatically improve astronauts’ ability to perform remote tasks on the International Space Station ISS.' Their usage of...

Tags: Overlay, NASA, Performance, Robots, Performance Management, Branding, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-14

Cellulosic ethanol: A fuel for the future?

Cellulosic ethanol: A fuel for the future?TypicalWe're sopping wet in oil in this country in Alaska, the gulf and the Atlantic Continental Shelf and instead we waste millions of dollars on stupid ethanol plants and run the risk of deforestation. There have already been food riots in mexico because of...

Tags: Tembec, Cellulosic Ethanol, refinery

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

Google loses in Belgian court

Google loses in Belgian courtthat's M$ work herethey convinced bribed some whiners to sue Google and cut the oxygen supply.M$ agents are infiltrated all over the place and are activated when the beast needs them.They've already taken it downSearch for http://www.google.be/search?q=La+Libre+BelgiqueAnd I get a censored page with this link at...

Tags: Channel management, SEARCH, M$ agent, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-18

Fraud rules blocking doctors from digital data? No longer

Fraud rules blocking doctors from digital data? No longergoing digital....seems odd to me that Pres.Bush is pushing for such records to go digital when our own governemtns is having enough trouble protecting data. http://www.iwantmyess.com/?p=72Going digital is risky but worthwhile if research is done and precautions are taken...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, hospital, E-Records, physician, Gates Foundation, health care

Discussion threads 2006-08-02

Things that retard

About a year ago I had a luncheon conversation with a fellow who was moaning about the impact SUVs are having on climate and how terribly the local environment was being affected by unrestrained industrial growth and so on and so on. I tried tuning him out but the whinny...

Tags: NIMBYism

Blog posts 2006-06-19

Ethanol maker pops in public offering

Ethanol maker pops in public offeringSuperweedssounds interesting . . . ;)Americans take it up the backside again...Let's ask why this company is profitable. The fact is, it is not profitable, it is being shored up via "welfare" from both the state and federal government, as well as the CORN...

Tags: alcohol, Ethanol, biodiesel, corn, polymer, ethanol, crop

Discussion threads 2006-06-14