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  • This is the week that was

    Wow. I com­plain that the tech news week is slow, so what hap­pens? Stuff. iPad spec­u­la­tion, high-tech worms, a new tab­let com­puter from RIM and much, MUCH MORE! Apple I Own An iPad, So What Do I do With It? NPD has released the second in its series of iPad sur­veys. While the first looked at buy­ing…

  • Huge Lego Mindstorms Robotic Chess Board [video]

    Gotta love the ingenu­ity that goes into stuff like this. It’s a huge Chess set, with the pieces made from Lego Mind­storm robots. 

  • Turning science fiction into reality. How cool!

    A few years back my wife intro­duced me to an enter­tain­ing book called Earth­web; a sci­ence fic­tion nov­el set in the near future. The book intro­duced to me a couple of inter­est­ing con­cepts that are just being real­ized in our daily life today — the first is that of a social cur­rency or rat­ing sys­tem…

  • Android, Blackberry or iPhone? Which is right for you.

    Earli­er today I dropped in to the CityTV’s Break­fast Tele­vi­sion set to chat about the three main types of data phones. Basic­ally we were look­ing at the data phones, and the types of people who each type of phone is best suited for — or not suited for 🙂 Here’s my notes from the early morn­ing chat:…

  • Brown paper packages tied up with string…

    If you fol­low my Twit­ter stream you know that I’m help­ing some friends out with a very cool Social Media pro­ject called Empire Aven­ue.  We’ve got­ten a little bit of press about it lately, most not­ably this art­icle on Mash­able. I’ve not talked about Empire Aven­ue a lot on my blog as I wasn’t really…

  • The browser you’re using right now is actually tracking your online activity

    An inter­est­ing news release by the Elec­troinc Fron­ti­er Found­a­tion last week shows that anonym­ous web surf­ing may not be as anonym­ous as pre­vi­ously thought. Due to each browser­’s unique char­ac­ter­ist­ics and con­fig­ur­a­tion (fonts avail­able, screen size, IP related inform­a­tion etc) it seems that many browsers cre­ate a unique ‘fin­ger­print’ that can be used to track…

  • A few reasons why I’ll get an iPad before Christmas — perhaps. Maybe.

    Over the last little while I’ve been fol­low­ing the news around Apple’s latest tech­no­lo­gic­al mar­vel, the iPad. Sure, at this time, only the Wi-Fi ver­sion is avail­able (and only in the US), but there’re enough news and reviews out there that it’s quite easy for­mu­late an early opin­ion — espe­cially since I already have an…

  • This is the week that was

    On the cusp of the iPad launch, you can bet there would be a lot of news and rumors about the upcom­ing launch. So, yes, I’ve touched (sorry) on it, but there was a bit of oth­er news hap­pen­ing this week too… …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on…

  • Want 3DTV? Get HDMI 1.4!

    One thing that’s not so obvi­ous when you’re look­ing at buy­ing a 3DTV is that some of the back­ground tech has been enhanced too, not just your TV screen. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

  • The screen is just one piece of the puzzle in 3DTV

    3DTV is a new TV tech­no­logy that’s being embed­ded in today’s flat-screen TV sys­tems. But a 3D cap­able TV is only one piece of the tech puzzle you need to exper­i­ence 3D. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

  • 3D will be in the next TV you buy

    If you’re out look­ing for a new TV, you’ll have seen bro­chures, ads and video hyp­ing 3DTV. All the major man­u­fac­tur­ers have developed, or are devel­op­ing 3DTV screens, and there’s no indic­a­tion that they’re going to be drop­ping 3D from their product lineup any­time soon. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my…

  • Living in a house of sand?

    Earli­er today I read an excel­lent essay by Umair Haque titled The Social Media Bubble, hos­ted on the Har­vard Busi­ness Review blog. Quite simply, the essay, (the first part of two, it seems) pos­its: “Des­pite all the excite­ment sur­round­ing social media, the Inter­net isn’t con­nect­ing us as much as we think it is. It’s largely…