Bell boosts internet speeds Bell Canada, which in years past has been considered a weak player in Canada’s telecom industry, seems prepared to take a step forward. While Bell has generally been slow in adapting to technological change, they now seem motivated to adapt to faster technologies. The Canadian based telecom provider now has plans to bring fibre optics into their customer’s homes and... 

The social networking world continues to progress. It continues to progress so much that different social networking sites are feuding with one another. The social networking site Seppukoo is promising to help Facebook users who no longer want to use the site, a chance to commit virtual suicide. Seppukoo is allowing Facebook users to create memorial sites to their Facebook pages as a way to express... 

Nathalie Blanchard, 29, employed by IBM in Bromont, has been off work for 1 year and a half after receiving a diagnosis of major depression.  While off work, Blanchard had been collecting sick-leave benefits. This fall Manulife insurance stopped payments. According to Blanchard, Manulife have stopped the payments because her Facebook paged showed her vacationing at the beach and enjoyng the company... 

In a move to encourage people to pay for online content, mega-publisher Rupert Murdoch says he will pull stories from appearing on Google’s news. Murdoch (for years) has criticized aggregators such as Google for taking a free ride on its content arguing that it disminishes the value to advertisers. Murdoch was asked why he didn’t simply pull his papers’ stories from Google News and...