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Rogers HP Netbook (non) Deal

July 14, 2009July 14, 2009 Doug Groves netbook, Rogers10 Comments

After annoucing the 50Mbps hi speed internet option in the Toronto area for the low low price of $150 a month, Rogers is now making on the go internet convenient and similarly expensive. For $300 you can get an HP Mini 110 netbook with embedded 3.5G service, with data plans starting at $25/m for 500MB of data, on a 2 year contract. These deals can be found at certain retailers such as Best Buy. Pointing out the lack of major savings compared to buying an unsubsidized netbook, there’s more suitable…

Canadian High Speed Internet (Slowly) Trickles Out

July 9, 2009July 9, 2009 Doug Groves Bell, couch, Rogers2 Comments

Marketing Strategies Highlight Duopoly In announcements just a day or so apart, Rogers and Bell/Aliant are starting to offer up real high speed internet for Canadian consumers in limited areas. Rogers is bringing 50Mbps DOCSIS cable access to Toronto residents, for the price of $150/month. Besides the 150Mbps, you’ll also be looking at a data cap of 150GB per month, which is pretty anemic for the price. If you do the math, you could blow through your 150GB cap in about an hour 10 hours if you’re going full (non)throttle….

Google’s Chrome OS Coming In 2010

July 8, 2009July 8, 2009 Doug Groves chrome os, google1 Comment

Google is planning on launching it’s Chrome OS, an extension of it’s Chrome browser, by mid 2010, and plans on ushering in an era of “speed, simplicity and security” for netbook computers. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the…

Life Sized Gundam Statue Finished in Tokyo – Geeks Worldwide Get Simultaneous Hard-On

July 3, 2009July 25, 2009 kingpinlei Gundam4 Comments

Life-sized… Gundam… Statue. What more could be said? That is a whole lot of awesome! On June 10th, construction of a life-size Gundam RX-78 was completed on Tokyo’s Odaiba Island Shiokaze Park for the upcoming 30th Anniversary of Japan’s most famous anime, Mobile Suit Gundam. This 18-metre statue was built with a moving head, hydraulics, and boasts 50 – count ’em 50! – points of working lights.

Acer Aspire Easystore H340 Review

June 15, 2009July 30, 2009 Doug Groves Acer, Easystore, Microsoft, NAS, review, WHS, Windows19 Comments

Overview: I’m sure we’ve all been faced with the dilemma of running out of hard drive space, and wondering whether it would make more sense to upgrade an internal drive, or plunk down the money for an external solution. When contemplating getting yet another hard drive to add to my system (as dictated by the paltry 24 GB I had left free on my last drive), I realized it was time to look into some sort of network addressed storage (NAS) instead of dogpiling another drive in the computer, or…

Cheapest way to get a Blu-Ray Player? Part 1 (And no, stealing one doesn’t count)

June 15, 2009June 15, 2009 kingpinlei blu ray, PS37 Comments

Okay, it’s been a long while since I lasted posted an article, so here goes… This article is based on something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. With more and more movies coming out on Blu-Ray, it is getting really tempting to pick up a Blu-Ray player (it’s a battle that’s still raging with me, but that’s another story). But since most of my hard-earned cash is going towards bills and such, that got me thinking… Let’s say you’ve spent your hard-earned cash on a beautiful big screen…

CRTC Bell Hearings Continue – Let your voice be heard!

June 12, 2009June 12, 2009 Doug Groves Bell, CRTC2 Comments

As we’ve covered many times in the past, Bell has continued to put a stranglehold on innovation in Canada’s DSL infrastructure, as we’ve seen our rankings in the world continue to slip further back. Although slow in coming, the CRTC hearings continue regarding Bell throttling 3rd party wholesale customer, and public input for round two is open, until June 22nd. To Fight The Power…

Apple’s WWDC 2009 keynote: What, they sell more than iPhones?

June 8, 2009July 25, 2009 Danny X Apple10 Comments

UPDATE JUNE 9: At the bottom of this article I mention that the Tethering feature will likely be a major money pit for those of us on Rogers. However, I just received this tweet from Keith McArthur, the Rogers PR rep who’s working on the 3GS launch. Here’s what he says: keithmcarthur@RebelScum Tethering is included free in data plans over 1GB or more until at least the end of the year. So there’s some good news at least. I recommend getting in touch with Mr. McArthur directly if you have…

Leo LaPorte says what we’re all thinking…finally.

June 8, 2009June 11, 2009 Danny X media8 Comments

I’m no big fan of Leo LaPorte. While I consider him an honest and genuine reviewer and host, I find watching his show “The Lab with Leo” on G4TechTV to be irritating at best and frustrating at worst. The only thing I can imagine being more annoying that watching Laporte would be being a guest on his show; he habitually ends his guests’ sentences for them and guides his interviews with all the deft grace and subtlety of a punch in the face. But he’s no Mike Arrington.

Jumpcut: Best Before June 15th

June 6, 2009June 6, 2009 Paul L 2 Comments

And by ‘best before’ I mean ‘nonexistent after’… Most of my personal film projects are primarily linked at Jumpcut. I kinda knew this was coming lately, in fact, I should have seen the writing on the wall the moment Jumpcut was bigfished by the aimless monstrosity that is Yahoo!, but I procrastinated and it’s still going to be a huge pain in the ass. Time to start chasing down them dead links! Dear Jumpcut user, After careful consideration, we will be officially closing the Jumpcut.com site on June 15, 2009….

Microsoft wants to rename netbooks with absurd 5-word phrase

June 3, 2009June 4, 2009 Danny X Microsoft, netbook12 Comments

While cruising around the Internets today I came across an article on Boing Boing that was just so right on, I just had to repost it here. As we’ve been gushing about around the rgb offices lately, Microsoft is getting a lot more right than it is wrong these days…but t seems that mantra has yet to trickle down to the marketing department. Enjoy. Steven Guggenheimer, Microsoft’s General Manager of Application Platform and Development Marketing, thinks that the term “netbook” should be abandoned. Instead, he says, such devices should be…

Canada Sucks When It Comes To High Speed Net Access

June 2, 2009June 2, 2009 Doug Groves 5 Comments

Michael Geist has a op/ed piece in [yesterday’s] Toronto Star that describes how craptastic Canada is when it comes to high speed Internet access. Here’s the bottom line: According to a new OECD report, Canada has one of the slowest and most expensive consumer broadband networks in the developed world. The OECD report, widely viewed as the leading benchmark on broadband networks in the world, compared Canada with 29 other countries on a range of metrics. These included broadband availability, pricing, speed, and bandwidth caps. As for specifics, how about…