For those following or effected by Canadian politics, you would know that a federal election is slated for May 2, the fourth in seven years. A 1938 amendment to the Canada Elections Act, Section 329, effectively banned the "premature transmission" of electoral results through timezones, punishable by up to five ... Continue Reading

More of a Twitter kind of guy than Facebook, I have to admit this is pretty cool! Popular headphone designer and manufacturer Wicked Audio has announced the launch of Facebook's first-ever radio station WCKD Radio. The interactive interface allows indy artists to upload their music to the station, allowing listeners to ... Continue Reading

It looks as though MySpace is getting on the short track to oblivion.  They redid their logo just recently, redesigned their site right after that.  Is it coincidence, or more likely hopefully overlooked, that during Verizon's big iPhone announcement, MySpace laid off 47% of their staff, or about 500 employees? That ... Continue Reading

A recent study led by Leeka Kheifets, University of California Los Angeles , has found a possible link between cellphone use by pregnant women and misbehaving children. To be clear, the study does not demonstrate that cellphone use causes the behavioral problems.  But they are finding an odd correlation between the ... Continue Reading

For those of us who are on twitter, how many times have you re-tweeted something that another person said?  I've seen more re-tweets, conversations and even battles.  But I've never heard of, until now, someone going to jail for that. Yea, jail.  In China, a woman re-tweeted something her fiancé had ... Continue Reading

It looks like London, England is getting its very own version of California's Silicon Valley.  As big?  With me being a pessimist, I'd say not likely.  But check out a few of the names that have signed on already: Google, Facebook and Intel. Those are some heavy hitters.  Britain isn't known to ... Continue Reading

It's not quite as full-featured as the desktop version, but it's here nonetheless -- TweetDeck for Android has just left beta with version 1.0. It's fast, fluid and fully functional, and though you're still getting just a single column of status updates in landscape mode, the app can ... Continue Reading

Earlier today, Google posted a quick update on the status of their soon-to-be-released Google TV home entertainment product. The company noted “overwhelming” interest by content providers while announcing several of the viewing modules that will be available when Google TV launches. Google announced that Turner Broadcasting, ... Continue Reading

Today, social networking company Twitter announced two upcoming features being added to their platform: promoted content and Google TV compatibility. First,  promoted content. Twitter has been dabbling in promoting individual tweets since back in April. “Promoted Tweets are ordinary Tweets that businesses and organizations want to highlight to ... Continue Reading

"Photos are one of the things people love to share," writes Sam Odio on the Facebook blog, but I have heard so many complaints on how bad the photo quality is on Facebook. Well complain no more people! Facebook has heard your cries and they are rolling out some major ... Continue Reading