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  • This is the week that was

    Apple gears up to get some Nortel Patents, and some new formfactor iPads? Google has a big week in a whole lot of areas, and Gorilla Glass finally gets acknowledged for the wonder material that it is:

  • Canadian Newspapers get an iPad App

    Earlier this week several Canadian newspapers simultaneously launched a free iPad application focused on providing selected daily content from the print edition of the newspaper.

  • Commerce in a post-Wikileaks economy

    You’ve likely seen the news that Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are under distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks by folk who feel that WikiLeaks headman Julian Assange is being persecuted for distributing sensitive information he...

  • This is the week that was

    Google, Groupon, and Wikileaks dominated the tech talk this week..with a few other things thrown in to keep the pot stirring...

  • This gift comes with live, and I mean live, training!

    So, ‘Tis the season and all that, and you’ve likely got some gift ideas in mind. Well if you’ve been sitting on the fence about giving someone an iPod Touch -- you know, that cool PDA Music Player Camera Digital Lifestyle Device...

  • Keeping your holiday photos safe

    The holiday season is upon us, which means that we’ll be enjoying time spent with family and friends. Many of us will grab our handy camera-enabled data phones and snap priceless shots that we’ll want to share, and keep for posterit...

  • This is the week that was

    Black Friday came and went as our southern neighbours enjoyed turkey and early holiday shopping. But that didn't stop the tech news from rolling in...

  • Print? Scan? Copy? Fax? It’s covered!

    Recently I had an opportunity to put one of the new Brother multi-function printer devices through it’s paces, and overall, I liked what I saw.Priced as an entry level unit, the Brother MFC-J615W (that’s a mouthful, why can’t they...

  • Checking out library books on your eReader?

    Got a Sony eReader and use the Sony Reader store? Well check out the little blue & white box in the right-hand sidebar on the page. Yep, you read correctly -- you can check out books from the library and read them on your eReader.

  • Discovering new apps on your device

    One of the neatest things about own­ing a digit­al device is dis­cov­er­ing new ways to use it. Got a spare 10 minutes? Look for a new app. Great way to kill time  For example, when I bought my iPad Touch, I star­ted mon­it­or­ing web­sites and twit­ter feeds such as 148apps and appadvice.com. There’s an more than one…

  • Reinventing the Walkie Talkie

    Back in the day, this kind of thing was what people used to talk to each oth­er over dis­tances, using radio waves. You were lim­ited by the power of the unit and the type and num­ber of obstacles between you and the per­son you were talk­ing with. And gen­er­ally, your con­ver­sa­tion could be over­heard by any­one…

  • This is the week that was

    Once again a busy week. Apple afi­cion­ados anti­cip­ate an iPad upgrade, only to be put on hold, Face­book taunts us with FMail, and battle roy­ale breaks out between 4Chan and Tumblr… …more This post of is one of many I pub­lish weekly at the Future Shop Techb­log. Read more of my stuff here.