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I’m sure when most people signed up for mobile phone service, they didn’t expect that the providers would be tracking where they went when web browsing, and then selling that information: When a Verizon Wireless customer navigates to a website on her smartphone today, information about that website, her location and her demographic background may [...]

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Most of Regional Council of Waterloo, the folks who voted to spend $818 million (except for the 4 out of 15 who declared conflicts of interest) on Light Rail Transit, don’t use public transit: Regional Coun. Jane Mitchell is a regular rider on Grand River Transit. Of the 16 people on Region of Waterloo council, she’s [...]

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The first long weekend of the summer of 2013 is drawing to a close, and I’m enjoying every bit of it. And so should you be. Of course all of my neighbours have picked now to cut their grass, but they’ll be done soon. Quit reading this and go outside and enjoy the sun. Breathe [...]

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The FBI wants to tap your internet conversation: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made it clear it wants to intercept Internet audio and video chats. And that, according to a new report being released Friday by a group of technologists, could pose “serious security risks” to ordinary Internet users, giving thieves and even foreign agents a way to [...]

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Rob Ford is the democratically elected mayor of Toronto, whether you like it. But a lot of people have a problem with democracy, and really don’t like Rob Ford. So they will apparently stop at nothing to get him removed as mayor. Gawker claims that they have seen a video of Rob Ford smoking crack, [...]

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The CW network has struck a deal to bring their content to Apple TV. Well duh. I really don’t understand the studios. I would think they would want to put their content in front of every possible person in every for-pay medium. But they hem and they haw, as it having people pay for their [...]

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I wrote about this a couple of days ago, but it seems that we’re down to the wire and the LCBO strike might actually happen at midnight tonight. Ontarians are lining up in droves to buy their liquor just in case. The LCBO is the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. Sort of like New Hampshire’s [...]

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I’ve been loosely involved in the Information Technology (IT) field for pretty much my entire working life, and it is only today that I learned that there was such a thing as IT apprentices. They are part of the general government apprentice programs but they are being reviewed: The province is cutting the tax credit [...]

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…Is the fact that I need a plethora of remote controls sitting in front of me to do something simple like watching a DVD. We have amazing technology in our living rooms today, but I still need to turn on the tv, and the home theater receiver, and the Blu-Ray player. Then I need to [...]

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Whenever I’m talking to my American friends about healthcare, the subject of free healthcare in Canada always comes up. I usually say that yes, it is free, IF you can get it. Waiting lists for care are long, there are fewer physicians, and far less technology like MRIs and CT scanners. This of course neglects [...]

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