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Netflix Down On Christmas Eve; Blames Amazon Web Service Servers For Outage
0By: Talha Bhatti | December 26th, 2012 | Business, News
On December 24, Christmas Eve 2012, video streaming service Netflix was hit by outages that effected subscribers of the service in North America. Netflix claimed that “many but not all devices" that run the service had problems. According to reports, some customers were still without Netflix service on Christmas morning. However, by 8:45 a....
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CRTC May Allow Tweeting and Texting to 911 Services in Canada
By: Jeff Stewart | December 24th, 2012 | Living, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Social Media
Since Hurricane Sandy hit New York City lots of things have changed, but the major change that was observed is the introduction of reporting emergencies to 911 through wireless communication. As a result, the residents of the city now have the facility of big iPad like screens through which they can report emergencies, if the phone lines are down due to storm or any other reason. This...
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Meet The Group of Mini Robots That Comes Together to Form a “Liquid That Thinks”
By: Jeff Stewart | December 24th, 2012 | Gadgets, Living, News
Who can forget the morphing of tiny fictional robots shown in the famous “Terminator” films. These illusory robots surprised the audience by taking the shape of different things after coming together. Now in our non-movie reality we are not too far away from practically seeing such small robots in our daily lives that can come together to form different shapes. As assistant profes...
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FreshBooks’ Userbase Reaches Five Million Mark With $8 Billion invoiced During This Year
By: Jeff Stewart | December 24th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Toronto based startup FreshBooks’ founder Mike McDerment has made it known that his online invoicing software has now got five million users. This is a remarkable achievement by FreshBooks considering the fact that its start was pretty ordinary, as McDerment admitted that his startup had only 10 customers in i...
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British Columbia Looking To Become 100 Percent Internet Connected By 2021
By: Talha Bhatti | December 24th, 2012 | News, O Canada
British Columbia has plans of becoming one of Canada’s most advanced provinces. That is why the government announced on December 22 that the entire province will have 100-per-cent connectivity by the year 2021. The B.C. government will start implementing its plans in the spring of 2013 so that the complete province will have affordable high-speed Internet. The focus is to reach people living in ...
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RIM Looks at Tiered Pricing for Service Access Fees as They Ready for Launch
By: Talha Bhatti | December 24th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Beleaguered Canadian technology giant Research in Motion recently announced results for the third quarter of 2012 and delivered results that marginally surpassed already low analyst and market expectations. RIM also showed that its cash pile had grown and that the company is all set to launch its upcoming BlackBerry 10 devices and platform at the e...
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Facebook Releases Poke App In Bid To Outdo SnapChat
By: Talha Bhatti | December 24th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
On December 21, Facebook gambled that the world was not coming to an end and released its latest mobile product, the Poke app. The app is for the iPhone and iPod Touch and mimics the ability of the popular Facebook feature available on the web version of the social network. Along with pokes, users can use the app to send videos, pictures a...
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Canadian Firm Cogeco Cable Buys Peer 1 Network Enterprises For $635 million Deal
By: Talha Bhatti | December 24th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Vancouver-based Peer 1 Network Enterprises was recently bought out by Montreal’s Cogeco Cable giving stock-holders $3.85 per share, a generous premium of 32% over the trading share price. The internet infrastructure provider was purchased for a deal that totaled $635 million. &nbs...
