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 Ted Kritsonis
With recent announcements surrounding Netflix, Apple TV and Bell and Telus offering Internet-enabled TV (IPTV), the idea of watching what you want, when you want is really starting to pick up steam. There will be a new player in that space with Boxee, a box that leverages the excellent free software currently available with hardware made by D-Link. Future Shop and Best Buy have announced that they will be selling the Boxee box in November.
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
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.
By Lee Rickwood
Vidéotron is the latest in a line of new Canadian mobile services, but it’s not the last.
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 Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Apple rehashed its entire iPod line, introduced a smaller streaming-centric AppleTV and revised its iTunes software application to include a new social network for music lovers. The music-centered event was streamed live to Macs, iPhone and iPads as a test-run for Apple’s new video on-demand rental initiative.