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“More and more people are getting smartphones and spending more time accessing the Internet via mobile devices,” said Ian Maude, head of internet at Enders Analysis. “That is going to be a big part of Facebook’s usage in the future. They’ve got to figure out a clever way of monetizing it.”

Facebook ‘likes’ mobile ads in your news feed

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  »
Maranda Carvell is a stay-at-home mother of four and video game enthusiast photograph at her home in Rockland, Ontario.

Girls who like to game

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  »

Shaw appeals CRTC ruling

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  »
In this Nov. 2, 2011 file photo distributed by Russian Roscosmos space agency technicians work on the Phobos-Ground probe at Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Some of the recent failures of Russian spacecraft may have been caused by hostile interference, Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin said. Popovkin made the comment when asked about the failure of the unmanned Phobos-Ground probe, which was to explore one of the Mars twin moons, Phobos, but became stranded while orbiting Earth after its Nov. 9 launch. The spacecraft is expected to fall to Earth around Jan. 15.

Despite technical problems, NASA confident about Russian manned rockets

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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Clarence Louie CEO and Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band seen here at the Osoyoos Indian Band office in Oliver, just outside Osoyoos, B.C. February 3, 2005.
British Columbia

New Okanagan prison to be built on Indian reserve land

Sun News has acknowledged that a citizenship affirmation ceremony it staged in its downtown Toronto studio last October was fraudulent.
Politics

‘Fake citizens’ ceremony plan might have violated privacy of new Canadians

PART THREE: WEB APPLICATIONS

Web apps ease mobile shopping online

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