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The Big Three's 'low cost' data plans are a bad joke

Marie Aspiazu, Digital Freedom Update | Big Telecom's proposed low data plans are a slap in the face. If the CRTC thinks that this is the solution to wireless affordability that Canada is hungry for, it has clearly not been listening.

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Requiem for a laptop

Wayne MacPhail | It used to be the case folks thought laptops would become more and more like tablets. Now, though, Microsoft, Apple and Google seem to be betting on the opposite future.

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Newsrooms have glance journalism up their sleeves

Wayne MacPhail | The advent of wearable technology like smartwatches has ushered in what's been called "glance journalism." Newsrooms are beginning to give special attention to the glance.

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Bearing witness: A brief history of livestreaming

Wayne MacPhail | Easy, mobile, live and social video streaming is a remarkable tool for journalists or anyone who can say, "I was there, you weren't. This is what I saw."

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Virtual or augmented: Pick your reality

Wayne MacPhail | How would you like your reality: virtual or augmented? You'll be choosing sides soon. There are projects in the works which promise to change the world as we experience it.

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Tapping on the window of invisible touch

Wayne MacPhail | The transmitted haptic sensations available in the upcoming Apple Watch bring, literally, high touch to high tech. And they open the door to some fascinating futures.

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Watch this: Apple delivers a smartwatch with function and style

Wayne MacPhail | After months of speculation, Apple's Watch is finally on the catwalk and ready for its closeup. Although Apple has always been about elegance, now it's about elegance, fashion and actions.

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Apple, IBM and Microsoft: What comes around

Wayne MacPhail | Microsoft is suffering on the PC and hardware side, and Apple's in bed with arch-rival IBM. What's going on in this topsy-turvy world?

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Wrapping the future around your wrist

Wayne MacPhail | How might Apple envision an iWatch? It would need to be the same kind of product the Macintosh, the iPod and the iPhone were -- category changers.

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Of phablets, Pop Tarts and sweet spots

Wayne MacPhail | Phones the size of Pop Tarts or single-serving styrofoam trays seem to be everywhere these days. Are phablets the ideal mobile computer for a generation that talks with their thumbs?

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Here come the smartwatch wars

Wayne MacPhail | This week the battle of the smartwatches began in earnest. Google announced Google Wear and Motorola took the wraps off the Moto 360, a stylish round smartwatch that tastefully mixes tech and fashion.

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Technological shifts and the paralysis of parallel futures

Wayne MacPhail | What makes some organizations nimble, agile and open to cultural, technological and paradigm shifts, and others systemically incapable of the first step towards an admitted future?