I missed this story when MTS and Rogers first announced their deal to co-operate on 3.5G wireless, but they’ve recently received regulatory permission for the plan. According to the original MTS release, MTS’ investment in the partnership will be about $70 million and the new network will cover “the majority of the population” by the […]
Category Archives: Commentary Unbound
Garth Turner Joins the Liberals
6 February 2007 – 9:45 pm
The news item of the day for Canadian political junkies is that former Conservative, more recently Independent, MP Garth Turner has joined the Liberals. I’ve read only a little bit of the online commentary and it mostly seems to be what I would expect. The current incarnation of Garth Turner, MP was a lightning rod […]
Attack Ads
28 January 2007 – 11:24 pm
Lately, there has been a lot of jostling and talking about a federal election here in Canada. With a minority government an election is going to happen sooner rather than later. Personally, I’m not convinced there will be one this spring, but the exact timing of the pending election isn’t all that important: all parties […]
New Ubuntu User Interface
Almost all of my personal computers run Ubuntu as the main system software. As the next version of Ubuntu will be released soon, I have been running a test install in a virtual machine. I’m really not sure what to think about this release. There are some interesting initiatives from the projects commercial sponsor, and […]