Canadian Comic Book Combines Multiple Tech Platforms
Are You Awake
This multi platform mixed reality comic book will open your eyes, for sure!
by Lee Rickwood
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Netflix Streaming Video Service Launch in Canada Itself a Sight to Behold
By Lee Rickwood
It turned out to be a much bigger deal – a major overnight set-up in the rainy streets of downtown Toronto – and a longer wait than I expected. But I came away with pictures …
Mayor Munch online game brings YOU into Toronto mayoralty race
by Lee Rickwood
That’s munch. Not punch.
It’s supposed to be fun, after all, not violent.
Toronto at the Centre of the Mobile Universe – For This Week at Least!
By Lee Rickwood
Various events around Toronto (don’t get confused with by TIFF film festival folks) are turning the city into the centre of the mobile universe.
Bundling Talk and TV as Canada Gets New Mobile Phone Services
By Lee Rickwood
Vidéotron is the latest in a line of new Canadian mobile services, but it’s not the last.
Watch Your Speed: Canadian ISPs Told to Share the Wealth
by Lee Rickwood
Internet access is seen as a basic service – almost a citizen’s right, if you will – and much like basic phone service, should be available to all. That’s the approach of the country’s telecom regulator, as well as some industry groups and consumer advocacy agencies.
Google Chrome and Arcade Fire Rock the Web with New Video and New Online Capabilities
By Lee Rickwood
The Wilderness Downtown, the new music video from Montreal-based Canadian rockers Arcade Fire, American writer/director/photographer Chris Milk and Google, is a clever way to promote the new browser, Google Chrome –the new browser, Google Chrome – mostly ‘cuz the only way you can watch the video in its full interactive glory is to use Chrome.
Canadian Company Announces the End of Long Distance Cell Phone Charges
by Lee Rickwood
The app turns any compatible computer into a phone – one with a real seven-digit phone number. That’s right – you get a real phone number, not just a nickname on a closed or proprietary VoIP network.