Monthly Archives: July 2008

My complaint about Rogers to the CRTC, and their response

The power that Rogers exert in the market for wireless, wireless data and broadband internet is utterly ridiculous. The competitive situation for these services in Canada has always been poor, but the situation was made much worse when they bought … Continue reading

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Rogers steals search traffic intended for Microsoft

If Rogers’ questionable policy of redirecting DNS misses wasn’t already enough, this has got to be: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20824864-URL-Manipulation What Rogers has done is review the URL structure used by this feature when using the Microsoft Live.com search provider. This particular provider … Continue reading

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Toronto Wiki Tuesdays July 2008: Truthiness for the Masses – what makes Wikipedia sufficient truthy?

Speaker: Maury Markowitz This month’s speaker will be Maury Markowitz, discussing how Wikipedia is addressing the problem of ensuring truth in articles. Maury is a renowned Wikipedia editor with over 1,000 new articles and over 20,000 edits to his name. … Continue reading

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Rogers Wimax service in the Muskokas (Six Mile Lake)

While the telecoms industry in Canada is widely* criticized as offering poor value** compared to other countries, the huge leveraged revenue streams from those obscene 3 year cellphone plans may be what’s funding the single telco service I am a … Continue reading

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