Steam Mobile for iOS And Android

Published by technicalguy on January 27th, 2012 - in Android, Apple, SmartPhone, Technology

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Steam, the online games and gaming community, has released to Beta a Steam app for iOS and Android. The app is live in the Android and iOS app stores.

Steam Mobile sports a set of features that should be familiar to PC gamers, including gaming news feeds and the ability to browse the extensive catalog. It additionally provides up-to-date information about games on sale. It’s also very geared toward communication, as it allows you to keep in touch with your fellow Steam buddies by poking through their profiles or kicking off a mobile chat session.

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Bill C-11 Canada’s SOPA

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Published by technicalguy on January 24th, 2012 - in Security, Small Business Technology

If you followed the now delayed SOPA Piracy Bill in the US, (our review) then you should also know about Bill C-11 here in Canada.
Amendments are being proposed to Bill C-11 that would introduct SOPA like wordings and control. the Huffington Post has an interesting article this morning about it:

“With Bill C-11 back on the legislative agenda at the end of the month, Canada will be a prime target for SOPA style rules. In fact, a close review of the unpublished submissions to the Bill C-32 legislative committee reveals that several groups have laid the groundwork to add SOPA-like rules into Bill C-11, including blocking websites and expanding the “enabler provision” to target a wider range of websites.”

How do you feel about SOPA coming to Canada?

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US SOPA Internet Law Will Affect Canada Too

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Published by technicalguy on January 19th, 2012 - in Technology

Do you or your company own a .com website? If so then according to a proposed US law it could be taken down for infringement of US copyright law.

You may have noticed that many webistes yesterday went dark; Google, Tucows, Wikipedia, for instance. This was a protest against this proposed legislation know as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), or House Bill 3261.

The concern for Canadians is that the SOPA bill is written so any website domain name registered in the United States is treated as if it were a U.S. page. That means if your website ends in .com, .net or .org you could be accused of breaching copyright and your website could be blocked by a U.S. court.

The Montreal Gazette has an interesting example:

In the U.S., copyright extends 70 years after the death of an author. However in Canada, that period is only 50 years. This means the works of Ernest Hemingway’s could legitimately appear on a Canadian website.

Under SOPA, if a Canadian website were to post the works of Hemingway now, that website could be found by a U.S. court to be breaching U.S. copyright and be shut down, even though it is entirely legal in Canada.

This bill is scheduled for a vote on January 24th.

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Zappos Shoes Hacked

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Published by technicalguy on January 18th, 2012 - in Security, Technology

Online shoe seller Zappos.com says a hacker may have accessed the personal information of up to 24 million customers.

Zappos is an Amazon company and the hack does not include credit card and payment information. However names, phone numbers, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, the last four digits from credit cards and more may have been accessed in the attack.

Zappos Chief Executive Tony Hsieh alerted employees and customers of the cyber-attack in an email on Sunday that is posted on the company’s website.

Zappos is contacting customers by email and urging them to change their passwords.

Zappos said the hacker gained access to its internal network and systems through one of the company’s servers in Kentucky. Zappos is based in Las Vegas.

Article source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204468004577164754266555954.html?mod=rss_Technology

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iPhone coming soon to Canada’s new wireless entrants?

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Published by technicalguy on January 17th, 2012 - in Apple, SmartPhone, Technology

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Wind Mobile, Mobilicity and customers of other new Canadian wireless carriers may soon be able to get an iPhone from them.

The reason the iPhone is not available to all carriers right now is becasue it only works with certain parts of the wireless spectrum. However, the next version of the iPhone, due to launch some point this year, could change that.

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Article source: http://business.financialpost.com/2012/01/16/iphone-coming-soon-to-canadas-new-wireless-entrants/

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5 Tricks for your Samsung Galaxy S

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Published by technicalguy on January 13th, 2012 - in Android

Here are 5 built-in features of your Samsung Galaxy S phone you may not know about.

 

 

  • Screen Brightness – slide your finger left or right across the status bar at the very top of your phone
  • Move Between Screens – pinch any screen you are on to get a view of them all, then select the one you want.
  • Back To Home – from any page, press the button at the bottom of your Galaxy phone to go back to the home page
  • Add an App To Any Page – move to the page you want and press the applications button, then press and hold the app you want to add to that page.
  • Move an App To A New Page – press and hold the app icon, then slide your finger left or right to move to a new page

These features work with my Samsung Galaxy S phone with Android version 2.3. They may also apply to other Android phones – you’ll just have to try it.

Here’s Samsung’s Galaxy S Live Show for more tips.

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iTunes Availability by Country

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Published by technicalguy on January 12th, 2012 - in Cloud, Uncategorized

Apple Computer HackedDid you know? Only Australia, Canada, UK, and US have full access to the iTunes Store.

If you live in Austria, Cayman Islands, China, Greece and others that means apps and books only, no Music, Music Videos, or TV shows. In fact, iTunes Apps and Books are the two items that are available worldwide. All other countries are missing some features from the iTunes Store.

Want to know what’s available from the iTunes Store in your country? iTunes Support now has a page that tells you what iTunes services are available.

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New Asus / NVIDIA Tablet

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Published by technicalguy on January 11th, 2012 - in Tablet, Technology

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At NVIDIA’s press conference today, NVIDIA had a couple little surprises. Little being the word, there — they announced a diminutive 7″ tablet to compete with the likes of the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire. The price, $249, is certainly competitive. But the tablet itself, the hardware anyway, blows them out of the water.

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Best Buy Providing IT Services to Small Business

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Published by technicalguy on January 8th, 2012 - in Technology, Vancouver

Best Buy may now be our competitor as it buys Mindshift Technologies Inc.

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Mindshift, of Waltham, Mass., was founded in 1999, and provides IT services to more than 5,400 small and medium-sized businesses throughout the U.S.

Best Buy has more than 1,100 big-box stores. But the retailer and other traditional chains face the prospect of becoming showrooms for online-only competitors. Some shoppers visit a mall or big-box location to check out merchandise and then find lower prices on the Web, sometimes while using smartphones right in the store’s aisles.

Demand for outsourced IT services among small businesses has been growing, with the IT outsourcing market in the U.S. expected to grow 1.9% to $40.6 billion in 2012, up from $39.8 billion in 2011, according to research firm IDC.

Small businesses in many cases can’t afford to employ large numbers of full-time IT professionals. At the same time, office technology has become more complex and diverse, and the threat of viruses and worms has increased. [Shameless plug: This is the type of IT Services we offer]

Best Buy’s acquisition of Mindshift builds on its 2002 purchase of Geek Squad, a provider of consumer-based IT support services. Small business are going into Best Buy’s stores already, looking for electronics and other products.

Article source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204552304577114760715912888.html?mod=rss_Technology

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The Windows Phone

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Published by technicalguy on January 7th, 2012 - in Technology

Apple and Android are the top two players in the Smartphone market right now, but have you given thought to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7?

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It certainly hasn’t caught on like others but it has a unique interface that will likely appeal to some of you out there. If you’ve never seen the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 interface then try this web-based Virtual Hands On and see what you think.

TechCrunch says “As most who’ve experienced the Windows Phone 7 platform will attest, Microsoft offers something truly unique in terms of OS design and on-screen interaction. Windows Phone 7 offers a superb user experience, indeed far superior to most if not all the Android smartphones.“

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