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FP Tech Desk: Morning Buzz (Batman uses Google, Steve Jobs answers his own email and Quebec woman loses disability insurance over Facebook photos)

Letters to the editor, intended for publication in the print Financial Post, should be sent to fpletters@nationalpost.com. We give preference to letters that refer to a particular article by headline, author and date. Send letters concerning articles ...

From MATT HARTLEY, Financial Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Steve Jobs,  Google Inc.,  Facebook Inc.

FP Tech Desk: Anti-domestic violence video game allows players to beat woman

Someone must have thought this sounded like a good idea.  A Danish non-governmental organization has created a simple online video game -- colourfully titled Hit the Bitch -- that allows players to slap a woman in the face, causing her to become bloody ...

From MATT HARTLEY, Financial Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Boing Boing

FP Tech Desk: Google Winterizes Vancouver in Google Earth ahead of 2010 Olympics

It seems just about everyone is anxiously preparing for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. That includes Google Inc. To help give Vancouver, Whistler and the rest of the lower mainland a slightly more wintery -- and downright Canadian -- look on ...

From MATT HARTLEY, Financial Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

FP Tech Desk: Kurt Greenbaum vs. the vulgar commenter

In a case which is causing newspaper reporters and online editors throughout the industry to re-examine their Website comment policies, one St. Louis Post-Dispatch editor went out of his way to contact the employer of a reader who left a vulgar comment ...

From MATT HARTLEY, Financial Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Arthur Miller

FP Tech Desk: The Top 10 tech moments of the decade

For a decade that started with the dot com crash, it's been a pretty good 10 years for the Internet. With just six weeks left in the first decade of the new millenium, the New York-based International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which hands ...

From MATT HARTLEY, Financial Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Craigslist.org,  Napster, Inc.,  Wikipedia,  Barack Obama

Telus sues Rogers over claims of having fastest wireless network

With a handful of new cellphone providers expected to enter the Canadian marketplace early next year, speed is of the essence for existing carriers, and now it's at the centre of a legal dispute between two of the country's largest cellphone providers. ...

From MATT HARTLEY, Vancouver Sun,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rogers Communications,  BCE, Inc.

FP Tech Desk: Morning Buzz (Google phone nears reality, Facebook's new privacy policy and Digg CEO says people won't pay for news)

Letters to the editor, intended for publication in the print Financial Post, should be sent to fpletters@nationalpost.com. We give preference to letters that refer to a particular article by headline, author and date. Send letters concerning articles ...

From MATT HARTLEY, Financial Post,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Digg,  Google Inc.,  Facebook Inc.

More dollars bound for digital advertising: survey

The recession has forced marketers to rethink how they're divvying up their advertising budgets, allocating more money than ever to digital marketing, a new survey shows. Thanks to improvements in technology, the economic downturn and increasing demand ...

From MATT HARTLEY, Vancouver Sun,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  Steve Levy,  ComScore Inc

RIM lends a helping hands to developers as application arms race continues

In the smart phone game, it's all about apps. Smart phone makers like Research In Motion and Apple know the key to victory in the battle for the future of the mobile world isn't just about selling devices, it's about encouraging software makers ...

From MATT HARTLEY, Financial Post,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

FP Tech Desk - Morning Buzz (Google's Xmas present for travellers, Telus find the Droid it was looking for, judge sez Twitter = broadcasting)

We'd like to kick off today's edition of the Morning Buzz by wishing Sesame Street a very happy 40th birthday. To celebrate, here's a personal favourite starring none other than Grover, the unofficial mascot of the FP Tech Desk: Now, onto the best tech ...

From MATT HARTLEY, Financial Post,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Twitter Inc

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