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View Article  Canada maintains G7 lead in broadband penetration

Canada continues to be tops among the G7 group of industrialized nations when it comes to relative number of high-speed Internet connections in the country, according to the most recent stats released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The OECD measured 23.8 broadband subscribers in Canada per ...   more »

View Article  Google accused of aiding "cultural genocide" in Tibet

My good friend Oxblood Ruffin, the top Canuck in that famous hacker outfit The Cult of the Dead Cow, posts an essay accusing search engine giant Google Inc. of aiding in the cultural genocide of Tibet and asking the Silicon Valley-based company to stand up to the ...   more »

View Article  The Great BlackBerry crisis

Just about everyone on Parliament Hill — MPs, political aides, journalists, and so on — rely heavily on their Research In Motion BlackBerry to communicate. And you never realize how much you depend on the service until it’s taken away. That happened last night around 8 p.m. after an “infrastructure ...   more »


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