Monthly Archives: September 2007

Unlimited Mobile Data Coming to Canada? Not So Fast, Soldier.

Over at the Boy Genius Report, Joshua Karp reports that unlimited mobile data plans — well, singular, “plan” — are coming to Canada, courtesy of Bell Mobility, for the grand cost of $75 per month. Now, if this were completely true, it might have implications for how mobile devices were used (i.e. for true [...]

I Love Picnik!

So, I know there are other online photo/image editors, but man, I have fallen in love with Picnik.  Sure, it uses Flash for its interface — but man, it uses *FLASH* for its interface!  It is so slick and smooth and *simple* I’ve started telling my non-tech friends/family/wife  to start using it for their every [...]

Digg Finally Adding New Real Features — Its About Frackin’ Time

I’ve been critical of Kevin Rose and Digg in the past, and as Muhammad Saleem points out — its been almost half a year since many promised features would be rolled out. Well, as you probably heard from all your favourite bloggers, many of them are being rolled out as we speak, and damnation, [...]

Propeller Propels Itself Out Of The … Harbour, I Guess

The “Social” Netscape has finally and officially moved to its new url, Propeller.com as of today. The official blog states that we should expect some growing pains, particularly as it sorts out its problem with spam.  For example, I suspect  *any* post regarding tramadol is *probably* spam.  It also says that there are new [...]

The iPhone Is Going to The UK — Why Not Canada?

Sometimes I think some news are best explained in video. By a puppet.
<edit!>Well, I thought I would just embed it but it breaks my theme.Check out the video over here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RdHv9jw84k

So *THAT*’s How Hammer Ended Up At TechCrunch40!

I’ll admit it — I’m a snob in many ways. And yea, it reared its ugly green head a few months ago when I heard that Hammer — yeah, that’s right, *THAT* Hammer — would be one of the “experts” at TechCrunch40 (then, merely 20). I wasn’t the only one questioning his “new [...]

New York Times is Free — And Validates Google’s Imminent Domination!

You may have heard that the New York Times is eliminating its paid service, NYTimes Select, and is making all of its news, including its archives, available to the public.
Good news for tirekickers, Scrooge McDucks’, and penny-pinchers all around — but, there was actually one kernel of information in this whole bit of news that [...]