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How the world watched the Olympics online

How the world watched the Olympics onlineI got sick of itI live in Germany, and the experience sucked big time. For those of you who don't know, in Germany you pay a TV and radio tax of about 26 dollar per month to subsidize public channels. The rule is: if...

Tags: Taxes, Web site development, Free trade, Web technology, Corporate communications, Advertising & Promotion, Olympic Games, NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, CBC

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Idiot frustrations

Sometimes the things non technical people do just amaze me - and I'm never entirely sure whether I should laugh or cry. Just now, for example, I heard a commercial on CBC-FM for their internet broadcast service which went something like this: "Just boot-up"...

Tags: What users care about, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-07-13

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Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law

Candians who vote to re-elect the Conservative government next week will also be voting for an archly pro-copyright agenda. According to the party's official platform released yesterday: A re-elected Conservative government led by Stephen Harper will reintroduce federal copyright legislation that strikes the appropriate balance among the rights of...

Tags: Legislation, Copyright Law, Creator, Government, Intellectual Property, Vertical Industries, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Corporate Law, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymity

China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymityClearly a crimefighting imperativeThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights is such a nuisance.RE: China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymityHmmm, this is quite disturbing. While I can see the benefits in one hand I see abuses in the other. And the abuses I see...

Tags: INTERNET, Internet service providers (ISPs), Spam, Now Let

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the Wall

2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the WallInteresting proposalI like your idea. some thoughts:First: two separate approaches 1) a media center PC to output to the TV & 2) use consolesSecond: Allow for user created chat rooms (audio/text) like IRC channels with audio. That allows the end user...

Tags: Olympic Games, Webcam, Phelp

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

Britain moves against illegal file sharing

CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...

Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Worldwide iPhone 3G rate plans compared

Worldwide iPhone 3G rate plans comparedyou can also add the data to an existing voice plan nt.ntRogers Canada has backpeddledWell, kind of. [url=http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/09/tech-iphone.html] Rogers offers limited time reduction in rates. [/url]Until Aug. 31, Rogers will grant you the privilege of signing a 3 year contract for $30/month which gives you...

Tags: Cellular phones, 3G, Apple iPhone, Rogers, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch, TELUS Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

News When It Happens (gadget)

Get the News from 70 different sites around the world in English, with the Google search bar. Including CNN, ABC, Afganistan, Africa, Aljazeera, Asia, Australia, Bangladesh, BBC, BNN, CBC, CBS, China, Chechnya, Cuba, France, Fox, Global, Greece, India and Google, Yahoo. Get all news when it happens. This version is...

Tags: Google Inc., Sidebar Gadgets, Cloud Computing

Software downloads 2008-06-27

Top Web sites in Canada in March 2008

Mar-08 Rank Feb-08 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Internet : Total Audience 23,879 1 1 Google Sites 22,436 2 2 Microsoft Sites 22,341 3 3 Yahoo! Sites 16,215 4 4 Facebook.com 15,513 5...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Site, Wiki, Internet, Web Site Development, Networking, Online Communications, NB

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Top Web sites in Canada in February 2008

Feb-08 Rank Jan-08 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Internet 23,814 1 1 Google Sites 22,389 2 2 Microsoft Sites 22,224 3 3 Yahoo! Sites 16,150 4 4 FACEBOOK.COM 15,145 5 5 eBay 13,109...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Site, Wiki, Internet, Web Site Development, Networking, Online Communications, NB

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Top Web sites in Canada in January 2008

January 2008 Rank December 2007 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total audience 23,802 1 2 Google Sites 22,440 2 1 Microsoft Sites 22,424 3 3 Yahoo! Sites 16,481 4 4 Facebook.com 15,354 5 5...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Networking, Internet, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-02

Encryptafile (exe)

Designed to be flexible yet extremely easy to use. In fact, it should take less time to figure out how to encrypt or decrypt files than the time it takes to read this page. The fully self-contained Task Constructor is all you need to perform encryption, decryption, signing, or verifying....

Tags: Encryption, Security

Software downloads 2008-01-16

96Crypt (exe)

96Crypt is a file/FOLDER EnCryption/DeCryption program using highly trusted block ciphers in CTR & CBC mode + MAC, together with several collision-resistant HMAC-HASH algorithms. -File's Steganographic feature supporting 11 different picture/sound format. -Powerful file shredder DoD 5220.22-M compliant. -CRC16 / CRC32 Checker-Modifier of any file or any hand-typed string. -HASH...

Tags: MAC, String, 96Crypt

Software downloads 2008-01-10

U.S. may take action on EU electronics tariffs

U.S. may take action on EU electronics tariffsJust bring in before the U.N. and let them handle itthey're supposed to be some important world political force, let them act it.WHAT WHAT WHAT ... what a bunch of sick hypocritsMAn the USA will do what turn to WTO for help...

Tags: Free trade, tariff, World Trade Organization, electronics tariff, electronics, Canadian Softwood

Discussion threads 2008-01-09

SQLiteE (zip)

SQLiteE is an extension of SQLite with the support for disk data encryption. The database is all encrypted into blocks of data, through the AES algorithm with a 256 bit key in the CBC mode. For every block, the system generates a random initialization vector. This is used to insert...

Tags: Database, Disk, Block, SQLiteE

Software downloads 2007-12-06

Verizon Wireless to be as open as the iPhone

Verizon Wireless to be as open as the iPhoneWell, what do you know.......Let's wait and see what comes of the open-spectrum bid in January and see how amenable the vendors are then.Maybe being open has potential after all Dana! ;)Here is another story that is all about the iPhone[i]That's what...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, government, Verizon Wireless, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-27

So what's an application, anyway?

So what's an application, anyway?Unix Museum - Exhibit AConfiguration files that are only validated at run time - even for being syntactically correct, never mind type or any other kind of consistency checking.This applies both to Unix itself and to many Unix system applications or utilities (or whatever you want...

Tags: essay, Bach, Unix Museum, Unix, compilation

Discussion threads 2007-11-07

Facebook surfers may cost their bosses

Facebook surfers may cost their bossesNew Study: Breathing wastes employee time!A new study by [b]ME[/b] shows that employees waste over $10 Billion [i]billion[/i] dollars of company time breathing. "It may seem like only seconds, but employees breath so often that it adds up," said CBC Chief Bean Counter Ima...

Tags: Facebook

Discussion threads 2007-08-20

CBC Radio Player (widget)

Choose your CBC Radio feed and play it. Windows only, and it requires Windows Media Player be installed. Based on code from thebadger2005 and graphics by John Hinds. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Radio, Microsoft Windows, Digital Music, Digital Media, Media Players, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2007-07-26

Facebook Classifieds? NOT 'Another Blow for Newspapers'

A “Canadian take on telecom and technology” fears a New York Times story titled “Facebook to Offer Free Classifieds” signals “Another Blow for Newspapers”:Mark Evans: For anyone looking to reach an audience of 22 million active users (many of them young people who don’t read newspapers), this is a huge...

Tags: Corporate governance, Facebook, classifieds

Blog posts 2007-05-11