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Read MoreRogers has quickly responded to the overwhelming ire from would-be happy Canadian iPhone owners with an interview in which they justify their data plans and costs as being more than accommodating to the “vast majority of consumers.” “Unlimited plans could end up costing customers more for what they don’t use,” the spokeswoman argues. “Our iPhone plans more than accommodate the vast majority of customers.” In the article, the Rogers representative argues that because plans in Europe, including France’s carrier Orange, are arguably more expensive and offer less than Rogers’ plan…
Read MoreWell, as has been blogged about ad nauseum by this point, Rogers officially reselased its iPhone 3G pricing plan today. You can see it here, but you’d probably rather not. But let’s break it down anyway.
Read MoreAbout a week ago, the CRTC demanded that Bell release to the public by June 23rd information that would prove it’s claim that P2P throttling was having a negative impact on it’s network. Some, but not all, of that information has been made public. Many details are being kept from public view for ‘competitive’ reasons. Even the scant evidence released shows exactly how flimsy Bell’s case is. One would assume that the company would release the most damaging evidence, but their claim is that over a 2 month period, 2-5%…
Read MoreIn a previous post Doug mentioned the spiffy ‘real-time rendered’ animation AMD (ATI) showed at a press event, declaring it the birth of ‘Cinema 2.0’. Hyperbole aside this week AMD has annnounced their new ‘King’ of graphics cards, the Radeon 4870. Ringing in at the $300 USD range it is certainly a much better buy than the new Nvidia GTX 280 launched last week, at $650! However unlike the Nvidia card the 4870 is not available in stores yet (due at the end of June), whereas the GTX 280 could…
Read MoreAs quoted from today’s Macrumors front page: Seemingly in a response to growing competition from Apple and Google, Nokia is buying out Symbian Ltd and will open its mobile operating system for royalty free use. Nokia will pay $410 million to buy the remaining 52% share of the company that it does not already own and establish the Symbian Foundation. “This is a significant milestone in our software strategy” said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia. “Symbian is already the leading open platform for mobile devices. Through this acquisition and the…
Read MoreThere’s a few points of interest regarding the issues facing Canadian internet access this past week, which actually makes for some good reading, so here we go. With regards to the Bell throttling issue raised by the CAIP, the Globe & Mail has an article that suggests that despite ruling against the CAIP’s request for interim relief on the issue, the CRTC is leaning towards the CAIP’s position. Part of the CRTC mandate is to ensure that there’s no interference with the application and development of information technologies, and Bell…
Read MoreShortly after the details of Nvidia’s new chipset leaked out, AMD’s demoed their new RV770 chipset. The short clip above is real-time game play using their Ruby character and was rendered by a single PC equipped with two “RV770” codenamed graphics cards powered by an AMD Phenom™ X4 9850 Processor and AMD 790FX Chipset. AMD is planning on introducing the RV770 ‘this summer’, along with a more detailed demo of it’s capabilities. Though the ‘consumer-level’ card is clearly aimed at gamers, I can’t help but wonder how it’ll perform when…
Read MoreIt seems every day, more information about NVIDIA’s GTX 200 series cards is coming out. And pics… The cards will be manufactured using a 65 nm process, with a die size of 576 mm2, which is almost double the current G92 series (9800GTX et al), which have a die size of 330 mm2. The GeForce GTX 280 will have a core clock of 600MHz, and the 1GB of GDDR memory will be running at 0.8ns, on a 512-bit memory bus. It’s no small potatoes, either as it’s a full-size 10.5″…
Read MoreBig Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo. Blender.org and the Peach open movie project recently released it’s animated short Big Buck Bunny, which you can watch above, and is available under a Creative Commons license… Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps… and the rabbit ain’t no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge. (c) copyright Blender Foundation | www.bigbuckbunny.org Besides…
Read MoreOver the past month or more, there’s been an uptick in Net neutrality issues in the Canadian ISP space. Over the decades, Bell Canada has received untold millions in government subsidies to build out it’s infrastructure. In return, it’s is mandated by the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission) to lease wholesale to 3rd party companies to run their own services on Bell’s physical infranstruction. Back in March of this year, Bell announced that it would start packet shaping, or throttling bit torrent transfers ‘during peak hours’, even on these…
Read MoreDAZ Productions recently released an update to their popular 3D software DAZ Studio. If you’re not already familiar with DAZ Studio, a simple way to describe it is playing with 3D paper dolls, but don’t let that description deter you. The software allows you to bring in character models, and clothing, then pose them for rendering. There are supplied models, but there’s also a large user community of free and paid content, both characters and clothing to expand your cast. Studio also works in conjunction with most major 3D software,…
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