Last Minute Gift Ideas ?
Amazon.ca
and iTunes Canada
have printable gift certificates.
Alternatively, you can e-gift a product or send gift certificates to Facebook from Amazon.com
Bell To End Throttling In March
Bell Canada has sent a letter to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Commission stating they will end their Internet Traffic Management Practices (ITMP) on March 1st, 2012.
In this letter the company claims P2P traffic has been diminishing in comparison to other traffic, some of which was misclassified as P2P traffic according to The Canadian Gamers Organization.
Canada Post Warns Customers
Canada Post as issued a press release in response to an email claiming there are discrepancy in pricing between corporate outlets and private postal outlets.
They claim is is false, stating “all 6,000 automated post offices, corporate or dealer, use the same retail point-of-sale system software.”
Rogers Video To Close 40% of Stores
Rogers Video will be closing 63 of their 156 Canadian stores by the end of January, according to the Toronto Star.
The company had reported a 46% reduction in revenue in October, having obtained $60 million in profits in the first three quarters of 2011 instead of $111 million in 2011. (Q3 2011).
Rogers had closed 20 video stores in 2010 and is currently revamping their stores in response to the market, to concentrate on smartphone and tablet sales. They had also closed their direct mail rental service, Rogers Video Direct, this month.
Parliament May Be On Break….
But your local Member of Parliament‘s office should still be available to receive letters and emails in regards to the digital locks provisions in Bill C-11 and Lawful Access until Parliament resumes in late January.
Over 80 thousand Canadians signed the OpenMedia.ca petition against Lawful Access, including yours truly.
Please consider signing this petition. Thank you.
Megaupload To Sue Universal Music ?
Billboard reports that the above commercial has sparked a lawsuit in-between Megaupload and Universal Music Group.
The file sharing service claims that Universal Music Group had filed a takedown notice with Youtube for copyright infringement to have this video removed.
“Let us be clear: Nothing in our song or the video belongs to Universal Music Group,” said MegaUpload CEO David Robb. “We have signed agreements with all artists endorsing MegaUpload.”
RIAA and the artists featured on the video could not be contacted for comment by Billboard by the printing of their article.