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How hackers cracked into GSM phones

I've written two articles so far about the vulnerabilities of cellular phone...

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Check Montreal rinks on new app

Have the kids at home and looking for a skating rink for them to kill time on? ...

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Yellow Pages partners with Twitter

Yellow Pages group, which joined the Open API movement back in September, announced...

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Buying sites floundering?

  It seems the group buying marketplace is already getting crowded. At ...

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‘World’s first’ glasses-free 3D TV hits stores in Japan

Toshiba on Wednesday launched in Japan what it calls the world’s first television that allows viewers to see 3D images without having to wear special glasses, amid intensifying competition in the market.


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Apple battles for control of the digital living room

Apple expects sales of Apple TV to top one million units this week, showing that the device is gaining acceptance in bringing the Web to TV.


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Europe seen needing regulation on Internet access

Europe’s confidence that it need not follow the United States in adopting rules to ensure fair Internet access may be short-lived, as competition between mobile operators and service providers like Skype intensifies.


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"The Jack Pine"

Canada's jack pine tree holds secrets in its branches

It's arguably Canada's most recognizable artwork, a classic Tom Thomson landscape showing a lonely tree with drooping branches, toughing out its fragile existence on a rocky, northern lakeshore.


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Potential endangered status threatens the wolverine

After the resounding success of a decade-long wildlife project that saw dozens of lynx airlifted from Canada to restore the tuft-eared wildcat to its historic habitat in Colorado, the U.S. state was preparing to turn to this country again for help in reintroducing the wolverine to the mountain forests of the American southwest.


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The Moon is engulfed in the Earth's shadow during the peak of a rare winter solstice total lunar eclipse as viewed through a telescope from Palm Beach Gardens December 21, 2010. Reuters/Doug Murray

Moonstruck: Lunar eclipse meets winter solstice in rare cosmic coincidence

Canadians coast-to-coast can witness the rare cosmic coincidence of the winter solstice aligning with a lunar eclipse early Tuesday morning, provided the weather behaves.


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A girl displays Japanese video game giant Nintendo's new portable console 'DS LL' next to the current 'DSi' at a press conference in Tokyo

Nintendo issues age warning on its 3D games

Japan's Nintendo has issued a health warning over the 3D function on its upcoming gaming console, recommending children aged six and under do not play with it to prevent damage to their eyes.


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Fallout: New Vegas

"Fallout: New Vegas’ ups antes with downloads

Bethesda Softworks is building on the rock star debut of "Fallout: New Vegas" with the December release of a new chapter of the epic videogame exclusively for play on Xbox 360 consoles.


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New video game reveals dark side of Mickey

The happiest place on Earth has a doppelganger. It's called Wasteland. Its denizens are forgotten, dejected and resentful, but they're not seething with rage. This is, after all, still a Walt Disney Co. property, even if its moniker is a topsy-turvy twist on the Disneyland theme park where no one really dies and fairy princesses always prevail.


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Sony on track to sell 15M PS3s this fiscal year

Sony Corp. is on target to sell 15 million Play-Station 3 game consoles in the business year to March 31, 2011, a company executive said on Wednesday.


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