Telus has canceled one of its most popular data plans: a $75/month plan that allowed cell phones to be used as modems for laptops. One of the big reasons is due to “abuse.” It seems that unlimited meant “within reason” and some customers found themselves dropped by the telecom giant.
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If you’re like me, or the other 19% of the browser population, you use Firefox for its security, stability and extensibility. However, Microsoft just released an update to its alternative browser, Internet Explorer 8, that “locks-in” users to that version if they have Windows XP Service Pack 3. Basically, if you liked the previous version [...]
Uh oh. We all knew that this was coming: Comcast has finally decided to limit their residential customers to 250 GB/month. Over the past year, there have been rumours about the ISP bandwidth caps and its effect on users and the Internet’s development as a collaboration, media sharing, communication, entertainment tool.
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JoAn Karkos took out two copies of “It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health”, a sex education book for kids, late last year and refused to return them, saying, “I have been sufficiently horrified of the illustrations and sexually graphic, amoral, abnormal contents. I will not be returning the books.”
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