Daily Archives: December 25, 2011

What did you get as a gift this holiday? What did you give?

Technology is increasingly the gift of choice, and we’d like to know what readers got (or are giving) this year for Christmas, Hanukkah, another holiday, or just out of kindness. Did you get an iPad, a Kindle Fire, or a Galaxy Nexus? Share what you’ve seen in the comments below, and please be kind in the spirit of the season!… Continue reading

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Bell Canada drops traffic shaping, may meter instead

Bell Canada has backed off of plans to throttle peer-to-peer traffic on its network following a CRTC decision that could make it illegal. As of March 1, neither Bell itself nor wholesalers on its network will see connections slow down when BitTorrent or similar traffic goes through. The Internet provider spun the decision as a reflection of a “diminishing” ratio of peer-to-peer traffic in favor streaming and other means of getting the same content…. Continue reading

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Dutch reject law making movie, music downloads illegal

The Dutch parliament late last week passed a motion that will likely keep movie and music downloading legal in the country. Although not binding, the measure discourages a proposed law from State Secretary for Security and Justice Fred Teeven that would have made many common direct downloads illegal. Personal use downloads by themselves would remain legal, the Netherlands governing body said…. Continue reading

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Tizi remote uses Siri for steering iPad TV

Equinux has developed a rare app that uses Siri outside of Apple’s own. Tizi Remote (free, App Store) lets users remotely control either a TV attached to a Tivi or an iPad attached to a Tivi Go wireless receiver, turning it into a TV with live channels and DVR-like recording. Siri comes into play as a simple channel changing system: Equinux uses the voice dictation feature to pick channels by speaking their names…. Continue reading

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UC Berkeley picks Google over Microsoft, talks why

The University of California in Berkeley has posted a full breakdown of a recent decision to pick Google’s Gmail and Google Apps over Microsoft’s Office 365 in what represented a changing of the guard. Although not an unambiguous win, Google pulled ahead by being free, taking a fast six to ten weeks to implement, and popular. Using its system would require much less of an overhaul than Microsoft’s, Berkeley said, and majority of the students and staff alike already knew the apps…. Continue reading

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