By Ted Kritsonis
While not unexpected, given the announcement two months ago of its impending entry into Canada, Netflix has officially launched its streaming service in Canada. The service is up and running and Canadians can take advantage of a 30-day trial before committing to a monthly subscription.
by Lee Rickwood
That’s munch. Not punch.
It’s supposed to be fun, after all, not violent.
By Yasmin Ranade
This is the last day to vote for the Canadian New Media Awards (CNMA), the country’s only nationwide competition recognizing the accomplishments of Canada’s most successful digital media companies. For its 10th year, the CNMA has established three new award categories …
By Ted Kritsonis
After four years, Twitter, a social networking site that took microblogging to the next level, went through a surprising makeover that started in the U.S. yesterday. The new look and features promise to make the whole Twitter experience “faster, easier and richer”.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Mobile browsers have become the newest area of competition. We pit Safari, Opera Mini, Skyfire, Firefox Mobile and Internet Explorer against each other to determine which is best.
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.
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.
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.