Author Archives: Robin

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Twitter suspends SMS notification for Canadians due to SMS cost increases by Canadian carriers

November 26, 2008 – 4:14 pm

Well, it was a matter of time with the few Canadian cell phone carriers having jacked up their rates for SMS text messages. Bell was the first one to do it, when they revealed that outbound text SMS messages would be $0.15 as of August 1st… and despite a huge consumer backlash and government involvement: […]

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Hot : $0.99 .com domain name registration coupon at GoDaddy

November 26, 2008 – 3:18 am

In these times of uncertainty, domain name investments are a good choice – even though the pickings are far from what they were 3-4 years ago (or during the real gold rush back in the late 90s.)…
GoDaddy has an excellent promotion right now to get a .com domain name registration for just $0.99 for one […]

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Downtime at Réseaucontact inaccessible avec erreur : 503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request …

November 25, 2008 – 10:25 pm

503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.

I monitor availability of several of the larger sites in Canada, and noticed some trouble over at one of the larger ones… The above error message seems to indicate something beyond a load balancer is not working - or perhaps RC is having a problem with […]

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Eric Schmidt interviewed by Jim Cramer on Mad Money tonight !

November 24, 2008 – 6:47 pm

So, yes, I love watching Jim Cramer on Mad Money for analysis of the days market with a great dose of humor and interesting insight from this former hedge fund manager… who my mom noted seems to be slim and in great shape (unlike many financial folks) despite television usually adding a few pounds to […]

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Skype 4.0 Beta 2 released : fixes for some annoying user interface issues

November 24, 2008 – 4:06 pm

So while my current health situation recovering from my extreme varicose vein surgery goes on (and on, and on)… I’m managing to at least somewhat stay in tune with a minimal amount of news from the tech world.

I’ve been pretty ambivalent about Skype 4 which has been in beta for several months. There are some […]

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