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  • TV shows hit international Apple TVs, emphasizing the iTunes lead
    Apple turned on streaming of purchased TV shows on the Apple TV for customers in the U.K., Canada and Australia on Wednesday night. The change doesn't even require a user-initiated update, and should be available on all current Apple TVs in those countries right now.
  • Google Extends Its Reach With Free Gmail Voice Calling
    Google announced today that the free phone calls through Gmail added in 2010 have been extended for another year. Domestic calls in the U.S. and Canada are free, and international calls have a low fee schedule starting at $0.02 per minute. Users can also choose to link this to a free Google Voice account to receive inbound calls. It's no surprise that Google has extended this service, since it just added it to Google+ Hangouts two weeks ago. Google has made several changes to Gmail chat to unify it with Google+, and this voice calling extends the reach of Gmail...
  • Record Labels Threaten the Open Internet, isoHunt Tells Court
    In its case against 26 major record labels at the Supreme Court in Canada, BitTorrent index isoHunt has submitted a response to the copyright infringement allegations. The BitTorrent site argues that not only do they pose no threat to the music industry, it's the copyright industry itself that's threatening the freedom of expression of millions of people on the Internet.
  • Reflective roofs and pavements could fight climate change
    Cool surfaces could lower global temperatures by 0.07 ?°C. Replacing roofs and pavements with more reflective versions could lower global temperatures by up to 0.07 ?°C, equivalent to a reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions of about 150 billion tonnes. That is according to researchers in Canada who used a global climate model to look at the effects of such albedo changes in urban areas.
  • Idiotic Copyright Comparisons in Canadian Parliament
    Politicians are always going the extra mile for their supporters, and nothing spells that out more clearly than this video, taken from the Canadian Parliaments discussion into C-11, the current attempt to give Hollywood what they want in Canada. In it, MP Dean Del Mastro tries to make a comparison for format shifting, and why it’s [...]
  • RIM CEO denies company is â€?in a death spiral’
    5,000 layoffs? Delays of major products? Quarterly losses totaling more than $500 million? "'Tis but a scratch," says RIM CEO Thorsten Heins. Canada.co
  • iTunes Movies in the Cloud now in UK, Canada and other Countries or 28 other new markets .