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iPod YES! iPhone YES! iPad? Um, Not So Fast

- January 28th, 2010

Apple's first mobile device: the Newton

After watching the media types go gaga over the iPad, the latest “cool, awesome, magic, ground breaking and revolutionary,” device from Apple, I thought of my high school football coach who preached, “You always make the biggest mistakes when you’re at the top of your game.”

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Oracle And Sun – Finally Coming Clean?

- January 25th, 2010

Oracle Sun Webcast

If you were a firm hired to help put on the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, wouldn’t you be hyping the hell out of it right now? I mean wouldn’t your advertising department have the tap wide open and spraying out all kinds of information about how much of the success of the Winter Games is because of you?

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iTunes: In need of a Major Facelift

- December 1st, 2009

itunes

Although I am surrounded by Apple Lovers and iMac enthusiasts here at Canoe.ca, I have a fundamental question about the iPod, a device that really brought Apple back to prime time.

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Free MS Office 2010 beta now available

- November 23rd, 2009

The beta version of Microsoft Office 2010 is now available as a free download from Microsoft’s web site.

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Nokia and TELUS Keep Pace

- November 16th, 2009

If you’re not one of those “real” men, and still a bit afraid to ask for directions, have I got deal for you. Read more…