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Peter Nowak is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology As We Know It.

He has been a reporter for the CBC, National Post and New Zealand Herald and his work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Sydney Morning Herald and South China Morning Post, among others.

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Tory Telecom Announcement Shows Love for Little Guys

0 Comments | Posted March 17, 2012 | 11:59 AM

Has anybody seen Santa Claus? Because it sure feels like Christmas. The federal government came out of nowhere on Wednesday to announce that it is finally going to open up Canada's telecommunications market to foreign investors. As an added bonus, Industry Minister Christian Paradis also announced the framework...

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Rogers: The World's Worst Throttler (Officially)

0 Comments | Posted October 21, 2011 | 5:39 PM

Hot on the heels of the news that Bell Canada is cutting some of its Internet throttling with wholesale customers comes some really -- and I mean really -- interesting data on throttling worldwide. Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the world's absolute worst throttler (since 2008): Rogers.

According to...

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CRTC Chair Crossed Harper Government Too Many Times

0 Comments | Posted September 29, 2011 | 12:43 PM

If you disagreed with your boss at almost every turn and one of those arguments resulted in him getting dragged into a court battle, would you be surprised if he fired you? Probably not.

That's why it's hard to understand what was going on in the mind of Konrad von...

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ISPs Moving Society Backwards: 'Call of Duty' Chief

0 Comments | Posted September 8, 2011 | 9:14 AM

It's not just Internet users who are angry over their service providers' usage-based billing and throttling policies. The man in charge of developing the biggest video game franchise in the world is pretty steamed too.

Mark Rubin, executive producer at Infinity Ward, the studio behind the 'Call of...

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The Art of Picking Up Women Gets a Female Touch

0 Comments | Posted August 9, 2011 | 11:50 AM

When I think back on some of the most eye-opening books I've ever read, few struck me as much Neil Strauss's The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists.

I came across Strauss's 2005 book by chance. I was in my early 30s, single, and in a bookstore...

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Can BlackBerry Maker Battle with Giants Apple And Google In The Smartphone Wars?

0 Comments | Posted May 26, 2011 | 8:20 AM

What's wrong with Research In Motion? That could be the question after financial analysts downgraded the BlackBerry maker's stock and reviewers panned its entry into the tablet space.

Indeed, four years ago, Canada's own success story could do no wrong. Celebrities and future U.S. presidents were touting its addictive 'CrackBerry'...

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