Grade 3 students act as ‘Customers’, spec’ing out the kind of game they’d like to play, and doing some ‘beta testing’ and ‘QA’ along the way.

by Lee Rickwood

Text and photos by Ted Kritsonis

Ottawa is officially “Canada’s fastest city” after Rogers uncorked its high-speed Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in the nation’s capital. The new LTE network will increase download speeds by up to 12Mbps to 25Mbps, more than double what consumers are using now on 3G.

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
 
In an unprecedented move, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Ericsson and EMC last week formed a strategic partnership to bid for 6,000 Nortel Networks patents worth $4.5 Billion.

Featuring Ted Kritsonis

Being the latest tablet to enter the fray against the iPad, HP’s TouchPad is an intriguing player, largely because of webOS, the mobile operating system running the thing. The hardware, while unspectacular, is more than passable for a tablet that is portable and functional, but it’s webOS that is the real star here, and it shows real promise on what it can do long-term. For now though, the slick and intuitive design and interface is still not on par with where the iPad 2 sits.

by Lee Rickwood

These are pretty tech savvy seniors, and everyone in the room raised their hands as computer users and e-mailers, with maybe 60 or 70 per cent of them on Facebook, and about the same having used iPhones, digital cameras or video camcorders.

Video featuring Ted Kritsonis

Acer’s Iconia Tab A500 is the company’s opening salvo in the tablet race, and is among the first to be running on Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb mobile operating system. To set it apart from others, Acer has tried to design the A500 as a media-friendly tablet that anyone can use.

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
 
HTC’s first Android tablet, the unibody Flyer, defies a lot of trends in the tablet space. It is smaller, runs on a single-core processor and uses a non-tablet Android OS. 

By Lee Rickwood

Like Swiss chocolate, German cars and Latin jazz, digital media should be Canadian.

By Ted Kritsonis

In a somewhat surprising move, Telus is moving forward with plans to halve the rates the carrier charges for data roaming. This means a 50 percent reduction from the average of $25 subscribers had been paying up to this point.

by Lee Rickwood

“Canada was an early mover on IPv6 in the early 2000′s and had several ‘firsts’, however its technology leadership has not been sustained.”

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Understanding the ever evolving nature of  electronic security, Norton has taken the leap forward to bring its antivirus and anti-malware technology to smartphones, tablets and other non-traditional devices. 

by Lee Rickwood

User manuals and product information sheets do contain printed warnings about using a cell phone or smart phone too close to the body (just over one half an inch in Apple’s case).