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Netflix now available in Canada

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Netflix.ca is now open for business.  You can now subscribe to a 1 month trial membership account and enjoy streaming movies.  Be warned that you will need to provide a valid canadian credit card or Paypal account to complete the process.

At that point you will be able to stream movies and TV episodes to [...]

Call phones from Gmail – Official Gmail Blog

Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time. Given that most of us don’t spend all day in front of our computers, we [...]

Netflix coming to Canada this fall

Netflix NFLX spokesman Steve Swasey confirms that the Canada move will be the extent of the company’s international forays this year. Still, it’s expansion, right? It’s also worth noting that Canadian customers will only be able to subscribe to the Web offering, but still won’t be able to get Netflix DVDs via the email. It’s the [...]

iPad app store goes live internationally

Irrespective of Apple policy, we know that many of our readers already purchased a US iPad for use — gasp — outside of the United States. With favorable exchange rates and an early US launch really, who could blame you? But after notifying your local customs office and paying your government tithe, the very [...]

RIMs Lazaridis warns iPhone is prophet of data network doom | 9 to 5 Mac

Oh my god, what a complete bush… this is! RIM‘s Lazaridis proclaims:

“Manufacturers had better start building more efficient applications and more efficient services. There is no real way to get around this,” “If we dont start conserving that bandwidth, in the next few years we are going to run into a capacity crunch. You are already [...]

Possible Apple iSlate video

Final UPDATE:

OK, move on, this is a fake… bleu screen with Adobe After effect applied.  Looked good none the less.

UPDATE 1:

I downloaded the HD version of the video (1st one is 720P and 2nd 1080p) and studied them frame by frame and I must say that the second video appear to show the real deal.  You can clearly see the depth of the home button as the tablet move, the shadow of the finger on the glass above the UI, etc, etc.

This is quite possibly the actual iSlate (or wathever name it will have). Continue reading Possible Apple iSlate video (or possibly prototype of)

Prepping the mini 10v for email on the cruise ship

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Reading about the internet connection quality on a cruise ship I realised that I will need to do something about live web mail access if I want to escape from the boat with my mind and some cash… internet access charges are very high for very low throughput and reliability… try getting 2000 guest [...]