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It’s a White Christmas in Moncton!

Monday, December 22nd, 2008 Posted in General IT News, Moncton ITA, News | No Comments »

We're in the middle of a nice snow storm here in Moncton! As such, this is a great chance to point out that the City of Moncton has some pretty cool live webcams downtown near City Hall! It's neat to ...

Follow-up: Canadian Governement Ready To Introduce Copyright Admendment

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in General IT News, News | No Comments »

Thursday at 10:45AM EST is when we shall better understand the fate of the Canadian Copyright Legislation. Minister of Industry Jim Prentice and the Minister of Canadian Heritage Josée Verner will unveil the bill to amend the Copyright Act with ...

Windows 7 - Features Announced at D6

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in General IT News, News | No Comments »

Bill Gates and Steve Balmer have announced the Windows 7 Feature Set at All Things Digital's D6 Conference  today. The biggest news is that the new OS will be integrating alot of features from the Microsoft Surface team development of Multi touch. ...

CBS to Acquire CNET

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in General IT News | No Comments »

Via TechCrunch (source): ...apparently worth about $1.8 billion, which is what CBS just agreed to pay for CNET. The deals values CNET at $11.50/share, and puts a 45% premium on stock from their closing price yesterday. CBS, which is worth a ...

CRTC to Probe Bell

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in General IT News | No Comments »

Via CBC (source): The CRTC is launching a public consultation on internet traffic shaping after rejecting a request by smaller Canadian internet service providers to end Bell Canada's throttling practices, saying the companies had failed to demonstrate that their businesses will ...

Got An iPod? Get Some Money!

Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in General IT News | No Comments »

If you've got an early iPod (generations 1 - 3) in Canada, you have a new perk for having been early adopter; a rebate! Via CBC News (source): Owners of older iPods can get a $45 rebate from Apple Inc., now that ...

Bulletin: Microsoft XP SP3 Official Deployment Delayed

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in General IT News | No Comments »

Microsoft has delayed the release of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP due to a "compatibility issue" with a piece of small- and medium-sized busines software called Microsoft Dynamics RMS.  The orginal timeline had been set for the release of SP3 to XP 32 bit pro ...