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Shaw now offering 25Mb/s cable internet

Dubbed as “high speed Warp” Shaw is now offering the fastest residential internet service in Canada. This new product from shaw offers a whopping 25Mb/s download speed and 2Mb/s upload speeds and at this rate it is faster then most business internet services you can get from telus or any other DSL/Cable provider. Imagine downloading [...]

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Sanyo Home Network Viewer

This portable mini-screen is more than what it seems. Sanyo’s ALBO HNV-M70 Home Network Viewer can be used for visual functions for a variety of reasons and purposes – those that we are all aware that we need and avail of every day. This digital frame can show photos which you can load into the [...]

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Femtocell for better mobile signal

Got problems with low or bad signal on your mobile phone when you’re in places that have faulty mobile signal? Well, homeowners who just can’t find signal in their own homes or workers who are employed in certain establishments with bad reception can think of getting a Femtocell. Femtocells are basically small devices that look [...]

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Considering The Google Gdrive

If you stepped off the bus earlier this afternoon, and walked directly into a high tech corporate office, you’d be presented with such exciting terms as “cloud computing”, “wi-fi”, and “remote access.” Someone might even have mentioned the still vaporware Google Gdrive. Gdrive is hyped as unlimited, unhampered data storage. It can be used to [...]

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Debian Founder Murdock Now Sun’s Cloud Strategist

The founder of Debian Linux, and former chief at OpenSolaris, Ian Murdock, is moving to a new office, but sticking to the same crowd of work associates. Murdock is moving into the role of chief strategist for cloud computing at Sun Microsystems. “Obviously I have a deep background in Linux distributions,” he said, referencing the [...]

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Security Flaw In MD5 Algorithm

Independent researcher in both California and the Netherlands have discovered a weakness the Internet digital certificate infrastructure, which poses a threat of hackers impersonating site identifications trusted by most web browsers. In essence, hackers could make your browser believe it is on a secure website or email server while virtually undetectable phishing of your system [...]

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Sony Losing The Plot

  As a gaming enthusiast and a fan of the PS2 I think that Sony has completely lost the plot when it comes to the PS3. Dollar for dollar it is the most complete solution on the market, the only problem is, the market doesn’t seem to know it. Retailing at about $600 the PS3 [...]

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D-Link Unveils The RangeBooster N Dual-Band Wireless Router

D-Link has been a big player in the wireless networking business for years, and they’ve just secured their status with the newly unveiled 802.11n wireless router, simply named the RangeBooster N Dual Band Router. For starters, it operates at either 5GHz or the more conventional 2.4GHz, and after that it just keeps getting better. It [...]

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Eye-fi, Wireless upload for your digital camera

I was browsing the net and came across a really cool product, the eye-fi. The Eye-Fi is an SD memory card that has wireless capabilities on top of the memory storage. All you do is make a few simple configurations and you’re set to begin automatically uploading pictures. So, when you’re out and about taking [...]

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Cheap Wireless for your XBOX 360

If you have an XBOX 360 you’ve probably already spent many nights crying over the fact that it doesn’t come with built-in wireless access like the Wii and Playstation 3. On top of that, if you wanted to have wireless access for the 360 you’re going to have to lay down about $100. So many [...]

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