Free Shipping This Weekend
Thought you’d like to know that Sears.ca is offering free shipping this weekend.
They offer DVDs/Blu-rays, electronics, beginner’s music instruments, musical accessories and costumes. This offer ends Oct 28th, 2012.
CRTC Denies Bell’s Bid To Purchase Astral
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission has denied Bell Canada’s $3.4 billion takeover of media giant Astral.
Bell had planned to acquire them in order to provide content through their networks and internet services. But there was some concern in regards to access to this content by the competition.
Though some believe Bell may shelf their plan to offer a Netflix type service because of this decision, I believe they will eventually offer this service to compete with Shaw Go, a service offered by Shaw Communications.
Bell Canada has stated they will contest the decision by requesting “the federal cabinet to direct the CRTC to actually follow its own in-place policy”. But they have since been advised that the Federal Court of Appeal may be their only legal recourse.
Tablet Available To Pre-Order Until Oct 26th
Microsoft will be releasing their new tablet on October 26th and are taking orders.
The Surface will be powered by Windows 8
, which looks and operates like the company’s media center software, and will feature a microSD card slot to expand storage by 64 gigs.
It includes a kickstand, the optional cover doubles as a keyboard, and an adapter can be purchased to display content on HDMI televisions and monitors. Additional information is available by clinking this logo :
Real Canadian Superstore Coupon
My local Real Canadian Superstore flyer includes a coupon for $10 off a $50 iTunes gift card, valid up to October 24th, 2012 and music and app cards. Check your local flyer.
Urgent Security Warning
Skype users be warned : Do not open any message whose subject line is “lol is this your new profile pic?” !
This message directs individuals to a malware infected file, using an URL shortener services like goo.gl, that in turn infects an individual’s computers.
This malware collects user names and passwords for numerous sites and services including Facebook, Twitter, Godaddy, Paypal, eBay, Netflix and Yahoo. It may also lock your system and send unsolicited messages to individuals in your contact lists, asking your contacts to download the infected file(s) to their computers.
Skype advises their users to refrain from clicking “on suspicious or unusual files and links, even if it’s coming from people you know”. They also suggest their users update their software, including their anti-virus software.
More Free Content Promised
iTunes has announced that they will be adding more free content to their catalog, including full length albums and television episodes, which can be streamed to computers and devices using their software and apps.
Full length album previews and television episodes had been available from legal sources for years but I am hoping this will fill in some of the gaps.
For example, we still don’t have services like Hulu here in Canada and some television episodes are inaccessible to us because of distribution rights issues.
The availability of full length album previews may also reduce previewing on peer to peer networks and questionable foreign web sites. And Walmart’s Vudu service will soon be introduced into Canada so consumers should soon be able to access more content.