WIND Mobile’s pricing plans brought a breath of fresh air to the Canadian wireless landscape last December, but customers have been asking for less expensive data. WIND offered a great $35/month unlimited data add-on, but nothing below that for general purpose data. Well, today, WIND announced new data add-ons. Just […]
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You know things are pretty pathetic when an announcement from Rogers that SMS updates are re-enabled for Twitter (after 7 months of downtime), without any pricing trickery, is a cause for rejoicing. Update: I spoke too soon
This post originally appeared on Techdirt. The Copyright Board of Canada has decided to increase the levy on blank CDs from 21 cents to 29 cents each. The levy is a sort of “you’re a criminal tax” that assumes blank CDs are going to be used for unauthorized copying. Blank […]
My mom has been uploading photos (or sending photos to me to upload) to Flickr from Beijing. She’s at the Olympics, working on the Canadian core medical team. There are some great shots! (Unfortunately, none are from competition.) Those are just a few of my favourites. View the whole Beijing […]
This is getting just a little bit ridiculous. Rogers’ rates are already insanely high since they have a GSM monopoly in Canada. Their absolutely unrealistic pricing plans for the iPhone appear to have even got the attention of Cupertino. Now, despite the ongoing investigation by the CRTC into Bell’s throttling […]
The Green Party of Canada has become the first Canadian political party to officially support free and open source software in its election platform. The policy has both philosophical and technical motivations. The Green Party’s policy explains briefly how free and open source software is compatible with Green ideas: As […]
Look what I found: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam http://ubuntu-ca.org/ http://ubuntutoronto.org/ “We will be hosting an Ubuntu Toronto User Group Meeting on… 25 July, 2007 6:30 PM… held at the linuxcaffe…”