About Lee Rickwood
Lee Rickwood covers developments in media and technology with particular interest in how such developments affect our social, political and economic activities and interactions.
by Lee Rickwood
RIM’s Presenter eliminates the need for pre-encoding of PowerPoint files, and its higher supported resolution makes for a prettier picture when compared to the current alternatives.
by Lee Rickwood
Eleven Engineering is showing off its new personal wireless standard, called TRiK, at CES. It will compete with other proprietary concepts on the market, and with established standards like Bluetooth.
by Lee Rickwood
The media world is buzzing over 3D. Movie theatres have it, soon home TVs will have it. You know your laptop and iPhone can have it, right?
by Lee Rickwood
Skype online video calls will now support high definition video, bringing a more TV like feel to the phone connection.
by Lee Rickwood
As always, the future is uncertain…cloudy, in fact.
But two predictions are safe to make about the increased importance of cloud computing and mobile TV.
By Lee Rickwood
First, it was Microsoft. Now Google.
Another big Internet and technology firm has run afoul of those pesky little Canadians.
By Lee Rickwood
A new social network plans to share information about IPv6 – before the current Internet protocol tuns out of space…and time.
By Lee Rickwood
Dedicating its opening ceremonies to the folks it wants to serve, telecom start-up Globalive officially unveiled its new rate plans and cellphone services today with the opening of the first Wind store in Toronto.