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How to print money in broadcasting

Jack Kapica — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:08 EDT

If you were a radio broadcaster a half-century ago, you could say you had a licence to print money. Advertisers had broken into three camps — those who could afford to make ads for TV and those who couldn't, and those whose markets were local — and radio covered two of those camps. It was - Follow link to read full post

G8 nations ACTA up

Jack Kapica — Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:58 EDT

Considering how quiet Ottawa has been recently on the subject of its hotly denounced revisions to the Copyright Act, it is still in lock-step with the G8 nations on another subject that should be of equal — if not greater — controversy. For some time online watchers have been warning of - Follow link to read full post

A window closes, another opens

Jack Kapica — Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:41 EDT

Linux snobbery poked up its head again this morning with the announcement that[amp]nbsp;Xandros Linux has bought out struggling Linux pioneer[amp]nbsp;Linspire. Xandros, formerly Corel Linux and being developed in Ottawa with corporate ownership in New York, has been chugging along for some years behind - Follow link to read full post

One answer: Don't buy the iphone

Jack Kapica — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:07 EDT

Although I'm not surprised by the number of comments we received to[amp]nbsp;my story on Friday about what Rogers will charge customers who buy Apple's iPhone 3G, I must say I'm a little taken aback by their vitriol. The writers have blamed the high rates Rogers is charging on the company's “monopoly - Follow link to read full post

Pig in a poke: How Rogers stacks up

Jack Kapica — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:39 EDT

You can lose your mind trying to figure out exactly how much you'll have to pay to use the iPhone 3G. Just try to make sense of the rate plans Rogers Wireless announced this morning in any of the several place debate has broken out [amp]#8212;[amp]nbsp; Engadget,[amp]nbsp;Facebook or[amp]nbsp;MacRumors - Follow link to read full post

Search Engine finds the end

Jack Kapica — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:37 EDT

Search Engine, the CBC Radio[amp]nbsp;1 show about technology and digital culture, has been canned. Host Jesse Brown made the announcement at the end of his last show this morning. The show has just won a New York Festival International Radio Award, and was the most-downloaded weekly news and current - Follow link to read full post

Firefox 3 meets the conservatives

Jack Kapica — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:54 EDT

The critics are raving about the arrival of Firefox 3, claiming that it is now the top browser on the market. By which they mean, better than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. “Firefox 3 is poised to usher in a new phase of Web browsing that will change how Web applications are built and delivered - Follow link to read full post

The iPhone 3G: Gotcha!

Jack Kapica — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:04 EDT

Well, there you have it. If I'm reading the tea leaves correctly, Rogers is not likely to drop its data rates to accommodate the iPhone 3G, which goes on sale in Canada July 11. According to an Associated Press story, New iPhone is tough on unlockers, Apple has worked out a deal with service providers - Follow link to read full post

Apple, iTunes and tea leaves

Jack Kapica — Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:59 EDT

You've always had to read tea leaves to figure out what Apple is up to. Or, in the case of a contributor called Dmitry, in the Blog Critics blog, read the source code. Dmitry looked at the binary coding within the Mac OS 10.5.3 update, and he reports that almost everywhere in the code, “.Mac, - Follow link to read full post

New life for the dead

Jack Kapica — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:00 EDT

Yep, it's true: Legendary jazz pianist Art Tatum will give a concert in Toronto on June 23 as part of the[amp]nbsp;TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival, running from June 20 to June 29. Yes, I know, Tatum died in 1956. And he won't be physically there, sitting at the piano. But the piano — a - Follow link to read full post