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Winter Olympics to Demo Thought-Controlled Lighting

A Canadian company has created what it calls the “largest thought-controlled computing installation,” an experiment that lets visitors to the Olympics use brainwaves to control the lights at three major landmarks in Canada, including Niagara Falls.
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Astronauts Get Two Christmases in Space

Christmas comes twice to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station this year as the multi-nation crew celebrates the traditional Dec. 25 holiday as well as Russian Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7.
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Canadians sent approximately 100 million texts per day

Text messaging has become such a habit that it's easy to loose track on how many you have sent or received. It%u2019s important that it's included in your monthly plans or you might just wind up in being billed for an exonamant amount of money.
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Waving Goodbye to 2009

Here's an interesting video that uses Google Wave to illustrate some of this year's most important events.

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Globalive To Announce Cell Prices, Products Today

Wind Mobile will announce its handsets and rates Wednesday and if online speculation is anything to go by, consumers will be pleased, though perhaps not surprised.
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Go For Globalive: Cabinet Over-rules CRTC

To the surprise of some industry analysts, Ottawa has over-ruled the federal telecommunications regulator by saying Globalive Wireless Management Corp. meets Canadian ownership and control requirements under law.
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Rogers Says Canada Can't Support Fourth National Mobile

Rogers Communications Inc. Chief Executive Officer Nadir Mohamed said Canada's wireless market can't sustain a fourth national mobile carrier, even as the government pushes for more competition.
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Government of Canada Varies CRTC Decision on Globalive

The Government of Canada has varied a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) decision regarding Globalive Wireless Management Corp., a Canadian-owned and controlled company.
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Clement Allows Globalive Into Telecom Market

Industry Minister Tony Clement said Friday the federal government would overrule the federal telecom regulator and allow Globalive Wireless Management Corp. to offer cellphone service in Canada.
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Globalive allowed to enter Canadian cellphone market

The federal government has overruled a CRTC decision on the ownership structure of Toronto-based Globalive, opening the door for the wireless company to set up shop as Canada's fourth national cellphone company.
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Globalive is Canadian and can launch their WIND Mobile brand

After an incredible journey down the path of Canadian wireless, Globalive has been given the green light by Industry Minister Tony Clement to launch their WIND Mobile brand!
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Facebook redraws site's privacy boundaries

Facebook, the world's No.1 Internet social network, took a step toward opening up parts of its site to outsiders Wednesday by introducing more options for user's privacy settings.
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It's Privacy Day at Facebook

Today, the company plans to start asking all 350 million of its users to review and update their settings as they roll out the new simplified privacy interface. This is mostly an attempt at becoming more competitive with Twitter.
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Actor sues anonymous Wikipedia writer for libel

Ron Livingston, the actor who starred in the 1999 cult comedy Office Space, is suing an anonymous Wikipedia editor for writing that he is a homosexual. First, he must convince a judge to compel Wikipedia ato give up the name of his tormentor.
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Magazine Publishers Unite!

This morning, publishers Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corporation and Time Inc. announced that they’re going to “develop open standards for a new digital storefront and related technology that will allow consumers to enjoy their favorite media.
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Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic has released photos of the world's first commercial, tourist-carrying, thermosphere-skipping spaceship.
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Rogers Lawsuit Targets Bell Ad Claims

Cage match? Rogers Communications Inc. has filed suit in British Columbia Supreme Court against BCE Inc.'s Bell Mobility over a new ad campaign boasting that Bell's new high-speed service operates on "the largest, fastest, and most reliable network."
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2012 Olympics Showpiece Unveiled

An extensive team of engineers, designers, and architects from around the world unveiled plans on Monday to create a digitally connected structure to grace the 2012 Olympics in London.
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Rogers Launches Hulu Clone

Rogers is taking a page from Hulu, the popular U.S. video portal, with the launch of its own albeit limited online hub for television and movies.
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CERN's Collider Sets Proton Speed Record

The recently restarted Large Hadron Collider has become the world's most powerful particle accelerator, after setting a new record for beam intensity.
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"Twitter" Top Word Of 2009

Twitter has had quite a year. Not only has it attracted worldwide attention and millions of new users, "Twitter" has been named the top word in the English language for 2009.
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Raising Awareness About Canada's Wireless Industry

As Globalive awaits for teh Industry Minister to give them an official green light to launch, they have announced in a press release that bold states they%u2019re not giving up nor going anywhere%u2026
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Rogers Can No Longer Claim "Canada's Most Reliable Network"

A B.C. judge has decided Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX:RCI.B) cannot continue to claim it has "Canada's Most Reliable" wireless network without qualification.
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Large Hadron Collider sees first collisions

The world's largest particle accelerator has performed its first collisions, and its first beam acceleration. Are we still here or have we slipped into an alternate reality?
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Rogers/Fido launches My Account iPhone app

With Telus and Bell now also offering the iPhone in Canada, Rogers is now differentiating themselves from the rest of the pack with the release of their own iPhone app. This is the second post today where I'm not slagging Rogers...
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