Skype launched an iPhone client this week, everywhere except for Canada. According to a Skype representative interviewed by Tom Keating, “There are some patent-licensing issues which prevent us from offering it there.” Translation: This is a...
I must admit that this took a while to get to me since I tend to pay attention to actual news and not racist, homophobic, xenophobic, marginalist neo-con right-wing propaganda, but Greg Gutfeld last week took time out of his busy broadcast schedule to offend Canadians...
Last week a US Air Force C-17 transport plane (tail #96-0002) made a dazzling nighttime “wheels up” belly landing at Bagram Air Base in Aghanistan sending sparks and flames higher than the tailplane (which on the C-17 is five stories high). The crash led...
Om has a piece today written by Venture Capitalist Allan Leinwand asking whether Canada should bail out Nortel. He asks: “But is preserving the country’s technological heritage reason enough to spend millions in taxpayers dollars?” I think that...
This just in: Vancouver has been ranked fourth on the world’s list of least affordable cities. This is well ahead of cities like Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, and Hong Kong. As most rational people know, the city’s thundering real estate...
