New Internet Exchange Point Promises Faster Web in Canada
More Canadian IXPs are coming online this year, and that should mean faster Internet service and cheaper prices for Web users in Canada.
by Lee Rickwood
Category: Business
Could the plasma TV market be dead in a few years?
By Ted Kritsonis
Flat-panel televisions used to fall under an “LCD vs. plasma” debate, where plasma had inherent advantages that made it the go-to option for home theatre setups. But as the years have worn on, LCD technology has usurped much of that and emerged as the most widely adopted TV technology today.
SlingSync feature opens up the Slingbox to media on phones, hard drives
By Ted Kritsonis
The Slingbox has always been a device with a singular purpose — to take a live TV signal from one location and place-shift it to another over the Internet. The Slingbox 500 now has the extra function of SlingSync, a feature that enables content stored on a smartphone or tablet to playback on the TV the box is connected to.
Rogers one step closer to being a ‘bank’
By Ted Kritsonis
Rogers’ efforts to expand and lead the wireless industry in mobile payments has led to the Finance Ministry to give the company a patent incorporating “Rogers Bank”. With that out of the way, Rogers will now seek to have its own branded credit card, and push mobile payments with smartphones to the next level.
The ever changing face of Facebook
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla I was going to title this article ‘has Facebook lost its stride?’ but that was before the Social Network revealed its master plan to take over mobile.
Canadians Connect to the Cloud with New Tech Initiatives
Cloud computing can redefine the business sector and the social space by boosting innovation; even so, the cloud still holds concerns for privacy advocates, legal observers and information security officers.
by Lee Rickwood
Yahoo! unloads new Weather and Mail apps for Mobile
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla Yahoo! made two recent global mobile app announcements with a new Yahoo! Weather iPhone app. as well as an improved Yahoo! Mail for iPad and Android tablets.
Microsoft’s Windows XP dies one year from today
By Ted Kritsonis
Though announced as far back as the launch of Windows 7 in 2009, today marks the yearlong countdown to the “end of service” for Windows XP, meaning that Microsoft will fully cut off support for the longstanding operating system that was first introduced in 2001.