Can you smell it? The competitive landscape of the Canadian wireless industry is finally changing. It has been no secret that Globalive has been aggressively working to bring competition to the existing mix of Bell, Telus and Rogers (and subsidiaries therein), but yesterday brought a fantastic development – the launch of the WIND brand.

For years, the Canadian wireless industry has lagged behind nearly all developed countries when it comes to wireless offerings – specifically price. WIND is hoping to innovate the way that wireless service is carried out across Canada by listening to consumers and understanding what the Canadian public wants from a wireless provider. To best facilitate this, WIND has launched a beautifully designed community-focused website that allows the public to voice their suggestions and comments. I have become an active member in the discussions and it truly appears that the WIND team cares about what is being communicated.

There is no doubt that WIND will have difficulties entering the market as Bell, Rogers and Telus (particularly Telus) are attempting to tie up Globalive’s efforts in court. Additionally, WIND is scheduled to begin rolling out their 3G network in the coming months – something that will take time, money and patience from consumers. I strongly hope that WIND will not only establish themselves as a premiere service-provider, but also bring competition and finally smarten-up the existing telecoms that have had a “free ride” for far too long.

I will be sure to post more information on Globalive and WIND as developments occur. All of the best to CEO Ken Campbell and his dedicated team!

A few days ago I upgraded to Firefox 3.5 and just yesterday I experienced some epic freezing when a poorly programmed script took over one of the tabs. Like many people, I generally have many tabs open on any given browser window so a freeze can be a big problem if the browser reloads all previous tabs, including those that are problematic. WELL, it appears that the new Firefox has a great fix for this! After the first freeze, I relaunched the browser, which restored all of the tabs and froze again. After relaunching the browser a second time I was presented with this menu.

Yes, Firefox allowed me to restore ALL of the tabs except for the one that was causing problems! I was aware that this technology was being implemented among various browser, but I was so impressed that I needed to share my experience.

Continuing from the previous post, lets move beyond the original Pentium systems and towards the era of laptops and dual core processors.

I am a 25 year old that has been lucky enough to have been raised in a fairly technocentric household that was among the first to adopt computers and the Internet in our area. I should note that our house is largely surrounded by fields and did not have cable access until 1999 so this was quite the feat.

I should note that while we often had computers, the systems were never the focus of our being. When it was not raining I could not be found sitting at a desk, but would be in the nearby forests building tree forts, climbing trees to ridiculous heights, playing in a homemade quinzee or spending countless days on the golf course. I look forward to hearing the computer experiences of others.