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Posted By bran on July 19th, 2008

Even though I am fighting a bit of the flu, I just managed to qualify for the final round for the trip to Vegas with Daniel Negreanu. I posted that the 1st round was fairly easy and I only played maybe 2 hands the whole time. This time, there was over 6000 other players and [...]

Posted By bran on July 8th, 2008

Poker Pro and fellow Canadian Daniel Negreanu is offering a Weekend With Daniel competition in Las Vegas:
The weekend includes a trip to Las Vegas, where you’ll get to stay at the Venetian Hotel and party with the man himself in true VIP style. Daniel will also invite you to his Vegas home, to teach you [...]

Posted By bran on July 5th, 2008

AVG has recently upgraded their anti virus software to version 8.0. I have personally been using the free AVG personal edition on all my computers for at least 5+ years and have recommended to anyone who asks. The previous version was extremely light and unobtrusive and I have never had any issues with it. I [...]

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Posted By bran on June 28th, 2008

There is no doubt that the iPhone being released in Canada on July 11th will be huge. Regardless of price or plan, lots of fanboys, tech nerds and kids with rich (or dumb?) parents will get there hands on it.
The highly anticipated price plans have been released on the Rogers website. Notice that there is [...]

Posted By bran on June 24th, 2008

I have been on MSN Messenger for a long time. Admittedly, it’s not the best IM client out there but the simple fact is that most of my friends use it. Apparently it’s the #1 of IM client in Canada while AIM is #1 in the United States (go figure?).
A potential problem that I have [...]

Posted By bran on June 20th, 2008

It’s kind of sad seeing what has become of Yahoo as of late. It has been in the news for some time as it negotiates on and off again with Microsoft that eventually led to nothing. This did not make too many shareholders happy as they saw perhaps billions (yes billions) of dollars fly away. [...]

Posted By bran on June 12th, 2008

Possibly some scary news for Canadians who may soon face stiff copyright law where some critics are going so far saying that Copyright law could result in police state:
The federal government has introduced a controversial bill it says balances the rights of copyright holders and consumers — but it opens millions of Canadians to [...]

Posted By bran on June 9th, 2008

Most people in the tech industry are keeping an eye on Apple WWDC Event today and the rumoured release of the iPhone 2.0. Let fanboys rejoice, the Apple Hype Machine is in full force.
Most, if not all the big bloggers are doing live, play by play of the event including what Steve Jobs is [...]

Posted By bran on June 5th, 2008

Check it out the beta here: http://www.beta.ttc.ca. Supposedly it costs about $400k for the revamp, and will be fully functional by mid July. The RSS feed for service alerts is a great idea and looks fairly clean and simple. A definite improvement from their current site which looks like web 1.0 at it’s best [...]

Posted By bran on June 4th, 2008

Looks like Canada is catching up to the US in regards to copyright infringement. There was a time where we were in sort of a legal limbo outside the reach of groups such as the RIAA and MPAA from legal actions . Guess things are changing….
From the article:
Link: URGENT MESSAGE TO CANADIANS
My fellow Canadians, [...]