Most Influential Women in Tech 2010 (on Twitter)

April 30, 2010

Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Tech 2010 feature was a great read and I found myself looking for some of them on Twitter. In the end, as expected, I found some great insight from these women and so I decided to share my findings. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find them all on Twitter [...]

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The secret to scoring a great seat on an airplane

April 6, 2010

So you did your online check-in the night before your flight and you arrived at the airport with plenty of time to spare. You print your boarding pass at the kiosk and you zoom to the baggage check-in before heading to the cafe for your morning java. Now… what can you do to increase your chances of getting the best seat possible?

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FREETALK Everyman: A USB headset for every man (and woman)

April 3, 2010

The FREETALK Everyman USB Skype headset offers excellent audio using a custom on-board chip, enabling Skype users to take advantage of Skype’s SILK protocol for enhanced, super wide-band audio.

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Wordcamp Toronto 2010 Wrap-Up

March 28, 2010

WordCamp Toronto 2010 was held this weekend at Centennial College’s Student Centre and if the number of available seats is any indication, I’d say the event was a huge success.

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HoHoTO: Toronto’s most fun holiday party of the year!

December 14, 2009

HoHoTO 3.0, the GTA’s best holiday party is being held this Wednesday, December 16th, 7PM at the Mod Club. With all the proceeds benefitting Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank, the event is already expected to reach the stated goal of $40,000. HoHoTO began as a crowdsourced event over Twitter, with a goal of raising $10,000 [...]

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WIND Mobile: A green light and a clean slate for mobile in Canada

December 11, 2009
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Earlier today, the Canadian government overturned the CRTC’s ruling that Globalive would not be permitted to operate its WIND mobile service in Canada due to its foreign ownership structure.

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Informative video from CERA: “DNS explained”

December 4, 2009

I wrote a post not too long ago that illustrated in lay terms how the DNS (domain name system) works. Byron Holland, the Chief Executive Office for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) alerted me to a cool video produced by The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CERA) that also offers a [...]

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Rogers On Demand Online: Coming soon to a computer near you

November 26, 2009
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Earlier this week I was invited to attend an intimate gathering held by Rogers at Yorkville’s Hazelton Hotel. It was in the Silver Screening room where Rogers unveiled what they believe to be “the next big thing in TV”.

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ASK A SCIENTIST: Quantum to Cosmos Festival @ The Perimeter Institute

October 20, 2009
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Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics celebrates its 10th Anniversary with Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future. This innovative festival, October 15th to 25th, will take a global audience from the strange world of subatomic particles to the outer frontiers of the universe. You can enjoy a wide range of presentations in three ways— [...]

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Bell IPTV Fibe Entertainment Service: the Results are Impressive

October 20, 2009
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This is a follow-up to an earlier post regarding how Bell’s new Entertainment Service works. Specifically, this post will discuss the overall bandwidth expectations a subscriber can expect.

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