After a long wait, the iPhone 4 is finally coming to SaskTel. The Crown corporation announced yesterday that it will start offering the popular Apple phone on April 26.
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Built to break: planned obsolescence in technology
The next time your phone’s faceplate gets cracked, or your four-year-old laptop battery loses its charge in 15 minutes, you might want to stop and consider that it may have been designed to do that.
Bart Records owner Kevin Stebner sets the record straight on cassette tapes and punk rock
In an era that celebrates the ease of portable music and threatens to leave all physical mediums behind, a growing protest has risen from the prairies with the existence of Bart Records ”” a record label exclusively dedicated to the cassette tape medium.
Tech company helps commercialize ideas from universities
“We provide university inventors everything they need to commercialize their ideas,” said TandemLaunch CEO Helge Seetzen.
Free software makes hacking the U of S Wi-Fi network easy
Many students at the University of Saskatchewan are unable to access the university’s secure wireless network, leaving them vulnerable to identify theft.
Procrastinate better with StumbleUpon
If you are like me and are absolute shit at navigating the Internet and can’t figure out how your pals are finding all this wicked cool stuff on the web, you have to try StumbleUpon.
Google and Verizon proposal threatens the open Internet
They give us free Internet services that we can hardly do without. They champion for a free and open Internet. They make great products and give consumers an alternative to Apple or Microsoft. Sometimes it seems Google can do no wrong. Until now.
Heavy media usage linked to depression
A new report shows a correlation between low levels of personal contentment and heavy use of media. About one in five people is considered a heavy user.
The Google empire
Today, almost 80 per cent of searches in Canada go through Google. As a result of their dominance in search, the company makes billions per year in advertising sales.
Google’s success has its drawbacks, though. For those paranoid about privacy, any company that has such vast stores of information on its users is bad news. In more practical terms, however, Google’s invincibility threatens to undermine the innovation and competition that have made the Internet what it is.
U of S goes mobile
A new University of Saskatchewan iPhone and iPod Touch application is getting the computer science department national attention.
The app, called iUSask, is the first of its kind in Canada. It features class schedules, campus news, the library catalogue, a campus map and more. The current version features 12 unique buttons, with four more being added with the next update.
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