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Hey guys! We made the list! We made it! I know some people said we couldn't do four years straight, but we did it! Ok, ok. I'll stop with the goofing, but seriuosly, who isn't a little giddy at the fact that we've annoyed U.S. privacy policy makers enough to add us to its "priority watch list." We once again join the ranks
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Things are getting pretty salty in Hollywood. The CEO of RED - the all-digital camera that is wowing in part due to its price and also because of the amazing quality it can shoot - has invited "every camera company," to join RED in testing their best cameras and equipment side-by-side. From the post in the RED user forums: Each company can
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Coming in just after the ebook pricing scandal is underway, Microsoft has joined with Barnes and Noble to secure its own stake in the ebook industry. The first project of the agreement is a new arm for Barnes and Noble, hosted by Microsoft, for college textbooks. The latter part will see a Nook app for Windows 8 - hinting at Microsoft toeing the water
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While Blackberry's annual event - Blackberry World 2012 - has a lot of draws, there is a bit of a pallour on this year's festivities. RIM hasn't had the best last couple of years so it's understandable that it might be harder to draw a large crowd of developers to their event and to the platform in general. To combat this, RIM promised
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If Sophos can be trusted - and as a maker of security software, that's debateable - one in five Mac computers is infected with some kind of malware. The good news, for Mac owners at least, is that the malware most of them carry is Windows malware. Much like how a cold for birds can be a crippling illness in humans, Windows malware can lie dormant
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While my dreams of weilding an incredibly dangerous and potentially world ending - what would happen if you dropped a lightsaber straight down? - weapon are still fiction, it appears lasers that can make tiny, ultra-precise cuts is a reality. Researchers at the Unversity of Texas, Austin are presenting a new endoscopic laser device at the Conference
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According to a new Ipsos Reid poll, Canadians just don't want a Blackberry anymore. Or at least they want one a whole lot less than previously. The polls were taken betwen January 2011 and 2012 and found that, as opposed to January of 2011 - where 58 per cent of the surveyed planned to buy a Blackberry - a year later that number was reduced to 40
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While it's becoming common practice in Europe to pay for things and prove payment with smartphones, in America we're still playing catch up. Well, a test project in Boston might push that innovation - and comfort level - a bit faster. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is planning to launch an all-new smartphone ticketing pilot project
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The controversial business tactic that's been getting more widespread in the U.S. - of asking for Facebook account passwords during the vetting process for job applicants - has met further resistance in Nova Scotia. The new democrat N.S. government is looking to adopt a Liberal sponsored bill that would make it illegal for bosses to ask for Facebook
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Maybe that title is a bit misleading. It's a robot that can be controlled using the mind. Not a swiss robot that can control minds. At least not yet. For this experiment, the aim was to help paralyzed patients interact with the world. A patient in Sion in the south of Sweden was able to control a robot's actions over a 100 km away at Switzerland's