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Summer Camps in Toronto a Techie’s Delight
August 26, 2010 – 9:38 am
Summer Camps in Toronto a Techie’s Delight

By Lee Rickwood

Tech camps and media centres provide free access to state-of-the-art technology to introduce disadvantaged youth to potential careers in new media, while providing computer literacy skills and opportunities for creative self-expression.

Yahoo Web Searches Powered by Bing Coming to Canada
August 23, 2010 – 10:48 am
Yahoo Web Searches Powered by Bing Coming to Canada

By Lee Rickwood

Microsoft will do the heavy lifting, providing back-end functions like ranking search listings for Web, video and image results generated from search queries. Yahoo remains responsible for how the content looks on the page.

Windows Phone 7 demo impresses but questions remain
August 19, 2010 – 10:15 am
Windows Phone 7 demo impresses but questions remain

Text and photos by Ted Kritsonis

Microsoft faces a real uphill battle in trying to compete with entrenched mobile powerhouses like Apple, Google and RIM, and Windows Phone 7 is likely the last chance for Redmond to have any hope of staying relevant in the smartphone wars. At a gaming event in Toronto yesterday, I got a firsthand demo of the new operating system, and here’s a little of what you can expect.

‘Motion control,’ ’3D’ the biggest buzzwords at E3 2010
June 24, 2010 – 10:03 am
‘Motion control,’ ’3D’ the biggest buzzwords at E3 2010

The fight for the family room became even more heated last week at the 16th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (“E3″), which once again served as a battleground between the three major console companies: Microsoft, Sony …

How Microsoft Canada’s new online offerings help Steam Whistle Brewing and Cupid’s Gourmet Cupcakes
May 3, 2010 – 11:32 am
How Microsoft Canada’s new online offerings help Steam Whistle Brewing and Cupid’s Gourmet Cupcakes

by Lee Rickwood

The scalability of online services like BPOS means they can meet the needs of larger, more established companies – as well as the small, home-based start-up.

How Will Google Chrome OS Change The Landscape Of Desktop Computing?
March 4, 2010 – 2:30 pm

By Tim Teatro

Samsung has recently announced that they are to deploy Chromium OS, Google’s new operating system in a new line of netbooks later this year—the first sign that Chromium will be well received by OEMs. Still under development, the OS is already promising to change what we expect from an operating system.