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Six months ago I suggested that RIM would be giving up its competitive advantage over the iPhone if the eliminated they keyboard. It seems that now that the BlackBerry Storm is out David Pogue agrees with me: The first sign of trouble was the concept: a touch-screen BlackBerry. That’s right — in its zeal to [...]

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I’m flying to New York on Air Canada tomorrow, and today I received an email telling me that I could check in and print my boarding pass, or I could use their paperless checkin on my mobile phone: You can now use Web Check-in or Mobile Check-in up to 24 hours prior to departure every [...]

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Best Buy Canada currently has a promotion on where purchasers of a 16GB Zune get a free 4Gb Zune: Best Buy Canada is currently having an online promotion that gives buyers a free 4GB Microsoft Zune music player for every 16GB Zune purchased. The 16GB Zune is priced at $180 CAD (about $141), with the [...]

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Yes, water experts in Australia want to tax toilets: HOUSEHOLDERS would be charged for the amount of water they flushed down the drain under a radical new blueprint to cut consumption, the Sunday Mail reports. The scheme would replace the current regime which sees sewerage charges based solely on a home’s value and not its [...]

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I’ve been a customer of Rogers Cable since we moved to Canada from Boston. I’ve had a digital cable box for most of that time. The other day I received a letter saying that my digital box may be incorrectly connected. I use it every day so I’m not sure how that could be, but [...]

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I’ve been listening to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys since I was a little kid, and it never fails to brighten my no matter what else is happening. But by far the nicest song I’ve heard in a long time is Southern California from Brian’s new album That Lucky Old Sun. It’s a sweet [...]

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As Mark Evans notes, that’s what you could buy Nortel for yesterday. The entire company. When I worked for Nortel ten years ago that was what they would pay to acquire a small company. Now the company has essentially been mismanaged into the ground. Yet the executives have benefitted handsomely, often based on what appeared [...]

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If you’re trying to keep up on what’s happening as the polls report, thanks to Google you can see it right here: Technorati: US election Powered by Bleezer

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When I moved to Canada from Boston I went to the state-run liquor store to buy some tequila only to find that a 26 oz bottle was around $45. When I asked why the price was so high, the store staff told me that it was because of a worldwide shortage of tequila. When I [...]

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If you buy something, but you aren’t allowed to resell it to anyone else expect the manufacturer you bought it from, did you really "buy" it? Or are you just leasing it until you return it to the manufacturer? Motorola seems set to do that with its new Aura mobile phone, contractually limiting you from [...]

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