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This is the week that was

January 10, 2010

Ok, I was wrong. Last week was quiet, in tech, but no where near as quiet as this week…as long as you disregard the small nuclear explosion that is CES. Well, I’m not going to totally ignore it, but instead …more

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The ‘best music player ever’ gets hardware

January 5, 2010

The following post is a QuickHit™ — an article or post I found online and thought was important enough to share directly with you. Of course, you’ll see my thoughts or opinions prepended or appended to this post, otherwise I’m just scraping content, and that’s not the intent.

TechCrunch is […]

Tagged as: Hardware Philips, Lifestyle Technology, Media Player, MP3, Music, Songbird, Tech

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Look! Over there!! It’s a Tablet…but wait, there’s another…

January 4, 2010

One Tablet, two tablets, three tablets, four. This week’s a zoo, I can’t take it any more! …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techblog. Check out the full post here.

Tagged as: Apple, CES, hardware, Lifestyle Technology, Tablet

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Edmonton gets cool toys and big money gaming this weekend

December 11, 2009

West Edmonton Mall is a place where things are done big. And I mean really BIG. This sucker is so big that the indoor hockey rink has been co-opted to host this event. …more

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Tagged as: cool, Entertainment, Event, Gaming, hardware, Intel, Lifestyle Technology, News

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This is the week that was

December 5, 2009

Google hogged all the lime-lite (and bandwidth) this week with a flurry of announcements. Everyone else seemed to be frozen in their tracks, except for Microsoft, who had to dig out of a bing! fail. And we got uber snow on the prairies …more

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Tagged as: Apple, Google, News

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My iPhone accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express…

December 2, 2009

Yes it’s true. Not too far in the future, my Garage Sale will take credit card payments. Courtesy of a neat invention that you knew someone had to invent; the Square iPhone dongle. The premise is pretty simple:

Plug it into your iPhone
Swipe a credit card to complete a transaction

Square announced the device earlier, but recently […]

Tagged as: banking, Business, Credit Card, iPhone, Micropayment, Money, Processing, Transaction

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