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Two of Canada’s largest telecom companies are in talks with Apple to be the launch partners for Apple TV.

Rogers, BCE vying for a bite of Apple’s iTV

Commentary and Features

“Desires for media may be comparatively harder to resist because of their high availability and also because it feels like it does not 'cost much' to engage in these activities, even though one wants to resist,” ... “With cigarettes and alcohol there are more costs – long-term as well as monetary – and the opportunity may not always be the right one.'
Social Web

Twitter as addictive as cigarettes, study says

Aerial photograph of former RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis' multi-million dollar home on the banks of Lake Huron near Kincardine, Ont.
In pictures

Inside look at a former RIM co-CEO's home

The Mini-T goes for $118 in specialty audio stores, but you can purchase it directly from Orb Audio’s website for the much more reasonable price of $69. Throw in a pair of Mod1 speakers and you’re looking at $299.
Gadget

Review: Orb Mini-T amps up your office sound

THE SOCIAL NEXT-WORK

When Zuckerberg hits an iceberg

Tech News  »
Autonomous haulage trucks like these are being tested at Rio Tinto's West Angelas mine site in Australia.

Miners look to a future of automated operations

Digital Culture  »
Pinterest wants its users to do three things: consume, create and share content. The more users consume, create and share, the faster Pinterest reaches its business objectives and dominates its market. To accomplish this, Pinterest has mastered the art of minimizing cognitive load – in other words, reducing the mental effort required to do what the site wants users to do.

Pinterest’s secret sauce: Cognitive load

@andywalker posts a picture of @ambermac doing the arrow breakthru exercise at @jairekrobbins rapid results seminar.

Don't check me in: Etiquette in social media

Mobile and Telecom  »
George Cope President and CEO of BCE, right, takes a question from a shareholder during the company's annual meeting in Toronto May 12, 2011.

Earnings reports reflect battle for wireless supremacy

Gaming News  »

Quebecor buys into mobile video games with BlooBuzz stake

Game Reviews  »
Players better have high tolerance for the innate inanities of Japanese RPGs. The genre’s one-dimensional characters and gooey dialogue are becoming increasingly difficult to stomach for an audience accustomed to the graver flavours of Western games.

Gulf between Final Fantasy storytelling and Western tastes widens

Science  »
Picomole Instruments Ltd. of Moncton, N.B., is developing breath analysis technology based on the original design of its founder, Dr. John Cormier, who demonstrates a breath sensor in the lab at his office that could detect cancer.

One breath away from diagnosing disease

Small Business Technology  »
One day we will be surrounded by flexible screens.

Nine trends that will change the tech landscape

Is it time to proclaim the death of the desktop computer?

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Interim CEO of Ornge Ron McKerlie was at the Ornge offices late on Wednesday evening in Mississauga on Jan. 25, 2012.
Politics

Ornge to revert to not-for-profit air ambulance co-ordinator

PART THREE: WEB APPLICATIONS

Web apps ease mobile shopping online

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