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Apparently thanks to Verizon, the BlackBerry Storm won’t have WiFi: You might have guessed it, but the reason is Verizon! We confirmed this a little while back with one of our really top-level sources (you know who you are!) and they did, in fact, confirm our suspicions — Verizon said hell to the no, we [...]

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Courtesy of the Toronto District School Board: A case in point: the Toronto District School Board has several “concerns” with respect to the imagery – and even the foodstuffs – associated with All Hallow’s Eve. In fact, some schools in Toronto and elsewhere now refer to Halloween as “Black and Orange Day,” fearing the H-word [...]

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After telling users how much Windows Vista would WOW! them, and then finding out that it didn’t run properly on many computers and users preferred to stay with Windows XP, Microsoft has decided to fix the problem. By pretending that Windows Vista never existed it seems. Microsoft has introduced Windows 7, the successor to Windows [...]

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I noticed a letter to the editor in the Peterborough Examiner from Don Forgeron, Ontario Vice President for the Insurance Bureau of Canada. He makes this comment: Alan Shanoff’s column on Ontario auto insurance does not tell the whole story. He wants accident victims to have unfettered access to the courts so they can sue [...]

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You would think that local media companies would be striving to be the source of all local information. I saw an accident yesterday. Lots of police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks. Today, a day later, I wanted to see what had happened. I went to the local television station – a CTV affiliate – only [...]

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When I was a kid we only had about 12 television channels – all analog via antenna. We lived outside of Niagara Falls so we mostly got Buffalo stations, along with a couple of Toronto stations. When we wanted to see what was on we often just flicked from station to station as fast as [...]

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I’m aghast – and yes that word is so appropriate at the front page article in the New York Times about cutting computer start time, especially this comment: “It’s ridiculous to ask people to wait a couple of minutes,” said Sergei Krupenin, executive director of marketing of DeviceVM, a company that makes a quick-boot program [...]

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Orson Scott Card has some thoughts on the state of journalism today: Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That’s what you claim you do, when you accept people’s money to buy or subscribe to your paper. But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie — that [...]

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Wisdom from Seth Godin: A small acting bank would never have invested in tens of thousands of loans that they hadn’t looked at. And a small acting startup wouldn’t hire dozens of people before they had a business model… and then have to lay off a third of them just because their VC firm showed [...]

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