The NDP is urging the government to introduce net neutrality and stop Canada's large telecommunications companies from throttling internet speeds.
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Intel Tuesday unveiled a browser extension for building mashups that can be used on any existing Web site.
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Six Apart LLC announced a set of services to help bloggers make money from their efforts, along with the acquisition of an creative agency that is the cornerstone of the effort.
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AMD today unveiled two new 45-watt Athlon processors that the company says can help users cut energy costs.
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In years past, Java programmers would write deployment descriptors, Hibernate configuration files, and endless files filled with XML just to stitch together all of the JSPs and database calls. After WaveMaker, we can almost sit back and forget about firing up vi or Emacs to get a Web application running.
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Microsoft signs a development agreement with an Indian outsourcer; and Australia's privacy commissioner asks the country's business community to review a plan for notifying the public about data breaches.
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Retrenchment at the One Laptop Per Child project continued in the wake of the resignation of its president, revealed earlier in the week. On Tuesday. founder and chairman Nicholas Negroponte indicated that the project's XO laptop may well evolve to be a strictly Windows-XP box, turning away from its open-source roots.
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More users are demanding Macs in the enterprise. Thanks to key computing shifts, supporting their appetite for Apple is now a straightforward option for IT.
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This new drive, introduced today, screamed through performance tests. This speedy drive easily beat our tested field of hard drives to become the top overall performer.
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Video streaming to mobile devices can clog wireless networks, so managers have to crack down on their use -- and even fire some employees who won't quit.
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Seagate's firs drive, the ST506, held just 5MB of data and cost $1,500, for a cost of $300 per megabyte. Today, a typical Seagate drive may hold 1TB (or 1 million megabytes) and cost just 1/5000th of a cent ($0.0002) per megabyte.
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While WiMax has seen its share of critics lately, the CTO of Sprint's Xohm WiMax unit says the technology is "revolutionary."
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A wireless carrier in Australia is planning to cover 20 of that country's largest cities with WiMax, although some doubt the vendor can pull it off.
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Apple has filed a patent for providing instant messaging on mobile devices, indicating it may shore up one of iPhones most notable shortcomings.
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AT&T's overall income increase significantly in the first quarter of the year, paced by strong wireless performance.
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A Government-sponsored report that measures the uptake of government services through varying communication channels has found that a quarter of all Australians now conduct the majority or their dealings with government online.
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A 36-year-old Sydney man has been arrested by Australian Federal Police for his alleged involvement in an international music piracy ring.
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A new alliance of government and industry stakeholders has been formed with the goal of overhauling the nation's existing power grid to become more environmentally friendly.
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Virtualisation vendor VMware has released its first quarter revenues for 2008. The strong financial results are attributed to increased adoption of server virtualisation as the technology gains momentum in the global market, claimed VMware.
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IT threats are continuing to rise, although the number of disclosed vulnerabilities tailed off in the last six months of 2007, according to new research from Microsoft launched at today's Infosecurity Europe event.
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The battle over traffic-shaping and net neutrality intensified Friday with the Canadian Association of Internet Providers firing back at Bell Canada Inc., saying the company has failed to prove its network is congested and therefore in need of speed throttling.
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For the second time in six years, the Alberta government will debate whether using hand-held cellphones while driving should be prohibited.
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Helping your friends grow taller or turning them into instant redheads is the latest application on Facebook, designed by an Alberta non-profit group to promote genetic research.
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Sales of mobile phones surged in the first quarter of 2008, with Nokia growing its market share and Korean vendors Samsung and LG electronics making the biggest gains, according to numbers from two research firms.
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The future of the web may lie in whether Microsoft Corp.'s bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. turns hostile, which could happen as soon as this weekend.
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Honda's Asimo robot will conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to bring attention to technology and music education.
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Yahoo is opening up its Web systems to let outside developers create applications across its network of sites, and it is combining online services under the social profile concept.
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Developers asked Google officials today about the Google App Engine's language support, backward compatibility, pricing and privacy protection.
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Citing music and Web examples, Oracle exec says that to be successful, enterprise mashups need to be easy to use, have performance on par with the Web experience and provide relevant content.
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The mashup world is immature, but companies are still taking the plunge.
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Corsair's new FlashVoyager GT drive is an encrypted device that offers industry-leading speeds, economic price and plenty of capacity. I downloaded a DVD-quality movie to this flash drive and it took me about four and a half minutes.
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Montalvo is believed to be working on a low-power processor that aims to compete with chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
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Honda's Asimo robot will conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to bring attention to technology and music education.
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Former co-owners of a New Jersey computer service provider to plead guilty to conspiracy charges related to defrauding the U.S. government's E-Rate program.
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