August 15, 2011

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Facebook's smear campaign against Google both ridiculous and hypocritical

May 13, 2011 - 2:31pm
Jordan Ching, Online Editor

Facebook and privacy are two things that don't really go together. Security holes have been found in the social networking site many times in the past, which should humble most people and make them hesitant to start accusing others of the very same issues. This, however, is not the case.

Microsoft's antitrust complaint against Google a bizarre role reversal

April 6, 2011 - 5:53pm
Jordan Ching, Online Editor

It’s nearly impossible to think of Google as anything other than a force of good. They’ve managed to cement themselves as the search engine of choice, they provide a fantastic e-mail service, and in general produce products that people find incredibly handy and useful. Their employees even gush about how awesome the company is to work for.

Microsoft Kinect most useful console peripheral outside of gaming

March 30, 2011 - 1:47pm
Jordan Ching, Online Editor

Before it launched, nobody was sure what to expect from the Microsoft Kinect, or if it would be useable at all. It was a technology that hadn’t been tried on the same scale that Microsoft had planned. But it turned out to be a success and received mostly positive reviews.

University's recent tech upgrades a welcome change

March 23, 2011 - 5:39pm
Jordan Ching, Online Editor

The university’s tech support has been a busy group of people over the last year or so. With the Gmail switchover finally going live this week, the long and difficult task of parting ways with the archaic web mail system is nearly complete. This is no small feat, and the folks at AICT deserve a lot of credit for accomplishing this massive undertaking.

Dragon Age II DRM not a conspiracy, just a miscommunication

March 16, 2011 - 10:56am
Jordan Ching, Online Editor

Another day, another DRM controversy. Despite claims by Edmonton-based developer BioWare that the PC version of Dragon Age II would not contain a trace of Sony’s digital rights management (DRM) software SecuRom, an independent group has found proof that this is not the case.

Sony going too far in lawsuit over PS3 hack

March 10, 2011 - 4:39pm
Jordan Ching, Online Editor

If you visited the website belonging to hacker group Fail0verflow since March of 2009, then good news: Sony knows, and it’s unhappy about it.

Lacklustre online presence for SU candidates disappointing

March 2, 2011 - 1:54pm
Jordan Ching, Online Editor

Looking at the online offerings for the Students’ Union candidates this year, it makes me kind of sad. Not only are most of the websites pretty terrible, but some of the candidates actually lack them completely; namely, Andy Cheema and Raphael Lepage Fortin have no website that I know of.

IBM's Watson an unsettling technological wonder

February 16, 2011 - 1:20pm
Jordan Ching, Online Editor

It seems that the good people of IBM really do want machines to take over the Earth. Watson, an artificial intelligence developed by IBM, has proven its worth by, as of the time of this writing, competing twice on Jeopardy! against former champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

PCs losing dominance to smartphones in mobile market

February 9, 2011 - 12:25pm
Jordan Ching, Online Editor

If you’ve purchased a smartphone over the past few months, then congratulations: you’ve just helped push smartphones into a more prominent place than PCs for the first time ever.

Clinging to obsolescence: why do we still bother with fax machines?

February 2, 2011 - 1:10pm
Jordan Ching, Online Editor

As science advances, so does our technology, making older products obsolete. While a shovel was a technological marvel at one point, you’d never see one used to dig a well when you had access to the appropriate and much more efficient machinery.
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