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 Microcell.
Since we’ve had GSM monopoly the ONLY way to use innovative GSM products is through […]
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 takes what is typed into the address bar, when DNS name resolution fails redirects your entry too:
»search.live.com/results.aspx?q=y···-Address
The […]
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. Maury works at a Toronto hedge fund firm where he is the programmer-on-call.
Note new Location! The […]
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 huge fan of: WiMax***.
* especially by me
** net neutrality issues, system-access fees, extortionate plans for […]
