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Google Pizza Program: A Really Cool Idea….

July 14, 2006

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The Google Pizza Program is a really cool idea. Essentially Google send you google Shwag (hats, google shirts etc.) and money to buy pizza for your computer science friends. This is their way of building goodwill amongst local CS Students but also giving them an insight into what happening with local campus developers. I’m not… [Read more…]

Old Media vs. the DVR…

July 7, 2006

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Have a Tivo? Well don’t fast forward or we’ll take your FF (Fast Forward) button away. That is what ABC President of Advertising Sales Mike Shaw wants to do…. The truth is he’s trying to protect his advertising stream, of course – not through new revenue streams but… by trying to cajole DVR manufacturers (and… [Read more…]

Optimax: 16 Megs down – but only 1 meg up and a cap at 80 GB.

July 6, 2006

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I caught this Bell news on Jon Arnold’s Blog, Bell Canada (of whom I am a customer) has launched “Optimax” Besides the corny name just what is Optimax. As Jon rightly points out Optimax is Bells answer to Videotrons’ (Quebec only) High-High Speed service of 16 megs a second that has been as best as… [Read more…]