Tag: CBC

We brought you the news that Skype is now available for the iPhone last week, but what we didn't mention is that it's available in every country where the iPhone is sold, except for Canada. The CBC is reporting that there is a patent-license restriction causing the hold up, and goes on to clarify that the restriction has to do with Skype, not Apple, though it's hard to see how the issue would be ...

I love the quote from playwright John Allen, who really understood how "Internet" could connect physically disparate affinity groups. John also says, "there's an interesting kind of restraint that you find. ...There's not a lot of put-downs... not screenfulls of 'go to hell.'" My how times of changed. These days anonymity and "Internet" are synonymous with flame wars and cyberbullying. One can ...

There's this new thing called "internet" that apparently lets jocks from all over the world talk about football. I love found footage. This is apparently a CBC report from 1993 on the growth of the internet. I think it's cute how they don't refer to it as "the internet," but rather just "internet. The explanation of emoticons, and how to read them is precious. And did you know that it's ...