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Bell To Charge Wholesalers Per Usage

August 10, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 2 Comments

Bell has recently announced that it plans to start charging its wholesale customers usage-based-billing (UBB). These wholesalers include popular 3rd party ISP provider TekSavvy, amongst others. This throws a new wrinkle in the relationship between the telco giant and the wholesalers, who are still waiting to for a decision from the CRTC regarding packet shaping. The limits imposed on the wholesalers would vary between 2 gigabytes (GB) per month for slower connections, up to 60 GB for higher speed connections, and overage costs would have to be passed on to…

PhysX Support Coming To Nvidia on Aug 12th?

August 8, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 1 Comment

Some time ago Nvidia acquired PhysX, a company that made dedicated hardware to vastly speed up rendering of physics calculations which includes everything from water pouring out of a tube demos to complex interactions between hard and soft bodies to name but a few. Now, it’s being reported that the latest version of the Nvidia drivers (177.79) which are due out August 12th, will have PhysX support built into them. Most models Nvidia cards in the 8000 and 9000 series, as well as the latest generation 260 and 280 will…

iTunes’ AppStore Blacklist growing as another app is struck down by the Hand of Jobs

August 7, 2008August 8, 2008 Danny X 7 Comments

Are you rich and wanna flaunt it? If so, download “I Am Rich”, quite possibly the awesomest app ever. You see, what “I Am Rich” does for you, the everyday Rich person, is flaunt your richness by adding a fancy red jewel to your iphone that just declares “I AM RICH!” and absolutely nothing else. The application costs a mere $999.99, a pittance to be able to declare to the world that you are one of the elite few who can afford such unnecessary contrivances. At least, that’s what you…

Bell launches a new ad campaign, just in time for the Olympics

August 7, 2008August 10, 2008 Danny X 0 comment

Tomorrow Bell will unveil its new branding with a 60-second television ad during the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Summer Olympics.“This is a significant rebrand from the basement up,” said Rick Seifeddine, senior vice-president, brand strategy for Bell during a conference call on Wednesday. In anticipation of the launch, Bell has been teasing the public in its major English-language markets since last week with outdoor media executions showing only the letters “er” with portions of larger blue letters at the edges. The number of executions increased over time, appearing in…

XBox Live Gold Now Free On The PC!

July 29, 2008August 2, 2008 Danny X 12 Comments

“For a limited time, Microsoft is offering free online multiplayer on Xbox 360/Games for Windows titles that offer LIVE cross-platform play. This promotion won’t last, so we can encourage everyone to take advantage of it while they can.” That’s the official quote from Microsoft regarding Xbox Live playability from your PC with others on 360 consoles. The promotion covers all titles that include Xbox 360/Games for Windows cross-platform play, and allows 360 users with an Xbox Live silver membership to play online free of charge. A paid Gold-level membership is…

“The Mojave Experiment” goes public

July 29, 2008August 2, 2008 Danny X 0 comment

As has been posted here earlier, Microsoft recently conducted an experiment in which they gave Vista naysayers an opportunity to be the very first to test drive “Mojave”, the new operating system from the software giant. In a nutshell, people who were vocal about hating Vista but had never tried it for themselves were brought in and asked why they wouldn’t upgrade to Vista, with the near-universal response being “I’ve just heard bad things about it”. Then, after praising Mojave on the highest mountain, it was revealed that these people…

Microsoft’s Mojave OS A Major Hit

July 26, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 6 Comments

Microsoft recently unveiled it’s ‘Mojave’ operating system to a select group of prominent bloggers in San Francisco just over a week ago. They specifically went out of their way to get people who had been vocal about their dislike of Vista. The results? Over 90% of the group had a positive reaction to the Mojave OS, including one exclamation of “Oh wow!”, which is reminiscent of the Vista OS launch. The real kicker is that the Mojave OS is nothing more than Vista.

You mean you DON’T HAVE AN iPHONE?!?

July 25, 2008September 15, 2008 Danny X 0 comment

It’s been 2 weeks exactly since the (semi) worldwide launch of the iPhone 3G, and the reviews are in. Simply put, people like it. A lot. The gotta-have-it factor is off the scale, with people scrambling all over town to get one, lest The Jobs should hear of their dissention and become enraged. But is it really worth all the hype? Is it really the “God Phone” everyone’s been waiting for? Well I’ve had mine for exactly 2 weeks now, and I can tell you, the answer to that question…

Wireless Spectrum Sales Concluded In Canada: Cheaper Services To Come?

July 22, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves CRTC28 Comments

The huge CRTC sale of new wireless spectrum concluded on Monday, bringing in about $4.25 billion dollars to the government, and possibly (finally?) putting a dent in the long running Great Canadian Telecom Duopoly of Rogers and Bell. One of the highest bidders to the new spectrum is Globalive Inc, which is best known for its Yak long distance service. The company has laid about $442.1 million for licenses in all provinces except Quebec, in an effort to build an all new national wireless provider. To maintain it’s stranglehold in…

E-paper makes its way to a newsstand near you. Precogs say, “I knew it would happen all along.”

July 22, 2008July 24, 2008 Danny X 1 Comment

First, it was a TV you could gather around in your living room. Then it was a TV you could watch in colour. Then it was a TV you could watch in big-screen glory. Then it was a TV you could hang on your wall. But how about a TV you can tape to your wall?

Warning about RED Beta Build 16 for the RED Digital Cinema Camera

July 22, 2008July 22, 2008 kingpinlei 2 Comments

For those of you who use the REDONE Digital Cinema Camera, RED’s recent Beta release of their camera firmware, Beta Build 16, is a major release of the core components. For those of you currently shooting under Build 15, DO NOT INSTALL BETA BUILD 16 until you have completely finished shooting and ingesting your footage for your project! As of Build 16, ALL DIGITAL MEDIA CARDS formatted under Build 15 and earlier will NOT BE COMPATIBLE with the REDONE CAMERA and will need to be reformatted under the Build 16…

Grassroots Growing Over Bill C-61

July 17, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves CRTC, online rights1 Comment

In keeping up with the fight against Bill C-61, c61in61seconds.ca has launched. It’s a YouTube channel that’s giving users a central hub to post their opinions on the new Bill C-61 amendments that are going through the system here in Canada. Many people see these changes as little more than a Canadian version of the DMCA. An ever increasing number of Canadians are speaking out, however, and the with the summer delay of the Bill, the grassroots are getting some time to grow. The above video tells you how you…