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I guess it had to happen eventually

I must admit that I’m not really sorry about this news. How long as it been on?

Say It Ain’t So: Apple’s ‘Get A Mac’ Ads Ending? [Apple]

Floppy-haired  Justin Long has said in an interview with the AV Club that the ‘Get A Mac‘ adverts “might be done…I think they’re going to move on.” Move on to more ads with disembodied hands and loud indie-pop? More »

More about Chapters ebooks

Good news it’s the ePub format that Chapters has chosen.

I was hoping for the Nook but so far theses are the supported eReader devices:

ePub files purchased on shortcovers.com can also be read on the following eReading devices:

* PRS-300 Reader Pocket Edition
* PRS-505 Reader Digital Book
* PRS-600 Reader Touch Edition
* PRS-700BC Reader Digital Book
* Asktak (EZ Reader, EZ Reader Pocket Pro, Mentor)
* BeBook (One, Mini)
* Bookeen (Cybook Opus, Gen 3)
* COOL-ER Classic
* Elonex eBook 600
* HanLin eBook (V3, V5)
* IREX Digital Reader 1000S
* Neolux NUUT2

Chapters is doing ebook too

The Canadian book will not miss this train and will be selling book too.

I’ll come back to you with more information about the format they will
be using.

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/ebooks

At the first glance the title available look a lot like Eeader.com & Barnes & Noble

Just finished reading this

Was surprisingly well written

CRTC in the news again

They really want to please the public!

CRTC won’t name firms in do-not-call probe
The CRTC is refusing to identify three telemarketers accused of willingly violating the national do-not-call list, according to a report by the Toronto Star.

Scrap the CRTC, petition urges ? Maybe it’s a little too far!

Why scrap? Fix it instead!

We need an board like that. But it need to work.

Can’t just let the system regulate itself. That’s why the mobile services are so expensive in Canada and that our Internet providers have free reign like they have right now.

read this:

Scrap the CRTC, petition urges
An online petition to dissolve the CRTC has attracted hundreds of signatures in the wake of the regulator’s ruling against independent internet providers last week.

What do you think?

Canadian cellphone rates among world’s worst

You think it will change?

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/11/canada-cellphone-rates-expensive-oecd.html?ref=rss

The average Canadian cellphone user is paying among the highest bills in the developed world, according to a new international study.

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Ennev Stephane Venne (aka Ennev) is an IT consultant with a broad range of interest. Ennev been using computers since 1978. So he has the emergence and fall of various technologies, this give him a good perspective to evaluate the current trends. What is his great quality in this business? He’s as interested to tech as he was in 1978. So he still maintain a BBS (80’s tech) and is embracing the newest technologies. His expertises also extend to hardware, video, audio.