CFN – Cornwall Ontario fascinates me. It’s part Twin Peaks; part Peyton Place, and full bore Cornwall. Since founding the Cornwall Free News nearly three years ago the person I have dealt with the most has been Mr. Bob “Vienna Sausage” Peters with the Economic destruction Development department. Mr. Peters was the author of [...]
CFN - Friday our office started getting emails about Joey Bellmore. By this morning we’d had nearly 60 emails from people all over the world seeking our assistance in finding out what happened to the 30 year old St. Lawrence College Business grad. It seems Mr. Bellmore has been building a You Tube Channel that [...]
CFN – There’s a trend in BIG CORPORATE media that is seeing a lot of talented people being replaced by young and less experienced voices. Cost reduction or just reactions to divergence in media? Some would see a decentralization and less focus on local is the culprit. Create one radio show or one set [...]
CFN – A small victory for Canadians over the big Internet providers in Canada. The CRTC did not allow them to charge for carriage. IE, UBB Usage Based Billing is dead….for now. We still pay far too much for our internet. I just got my Cogeco bill. Here in Cornwall we’re basically held hostage [...]
CFN – Sadly Steve Jobs passed away after a long fight with Cancer. The co-founder of Apple and visionary who brought the company back from brink to become the innovation leader and monster it’s become was 56. Apple’s website said it best. To me I’ll forever remember their commercial from 1984 which has [...]
Cornwall ON – Some amazing stuff is sprouting in the Cornwall Ontario area and Kristine Pickens from the Cornwall Game Makers sent in the following. “Video games have an interesting history. From the time of their invention in the 1940’s there was a lot of controversy over the assumed role they played – pun [...]
Cornwall ON – One of the scary things about having Mr. Harper finally get his majority is the impacts and precedents I and many others fear it’s going to set. Before the election UBB was and still is a very large issue. There was a break, a delay if you will, a proroguing of [...]
Cornwall ON – Have you ever wondered if that anonymous voice whose words you’re reading is real or not? Or no matter how badly you’ve proven them wrong they keep spinning back the same BS? Maybe this could be why? I’m not sure how much it pays, but this is the first Canadian Federal [...]
Cornwall ON – UBB. The CRTC is being lobbied by the Internet Carriers to have caps on your bandwidth and charge exorbinant amounts of money over and above. Where it might cost less than 1 cent to deliver a gigabyte of data some carriers like Bell or Cogeco want to charge as much as [...]
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Cornwall ON – In the movie Blade Runner the “Skin Jobs” simply do not want to die. They want more life. In a stunning scene their creator explains to Rutger Hauer’s character, Roy, that what burns brightest doesn’t burn longest. Steven Jobs has had quite a life. It’s not over yet and hopefully he [...]
Cornwall ON – We made it to our second birthday! Only about 15% of new companies make it to their 2nd birthday and I’m very very proud of you our viewers who have made it all possible. It’s an interesting and eye opening journey this news thing…Since February 9, 2009 the Cornwall Free News has presented [...]
Cornwall ON – Openmedia.ca has started a campaign to fight metered internet here in Canada. The CRTC just announced they will reexamine metered billing practices. They are seeking public input right now! This is a huge opportunity to stop Internet metering, and to ensure Canadians have access to an unlimited Internet. Please take a moment to [...]
Cornwall ON – A big part of this region’s cultural heritage has been reintroduced to the public at the new OPG St. Lawrence Power Visitor Centre. As the centre prepares to re-open for the 2011 tourist season, visitors will have the opportunity to view a replica of the famous Harold Town mural. On display in [...]
Cornwall ON – So whose music have you been illegally downloading? A web page purporting to have been able to compile numbers on illegal downloads has published their top ten lists for 2010! LINK Britney Spears “Telephone” is purported to be the number one illegally downloaded track. Rihanna’s “Loud” is the Album they say [...]
Cornwall ON – Dear Virgin Mobile, Jim Balsillie, and RIM. I’ve been with Virgin Mobile for nearly six years now. Who can live without a cell phone after all; especially in business? I started with a pay as you go and then moved to a 3 year plan after the phone died. Recently [...]
Cornwall ON – The Kindle 3 With Wi-Fi, launched in September is the latest generation, electronic book reader from Amazon. Advertised at $139 it arrives in Canada at $170. The e-book reader has arrived. It’s a prime time science fiction, far out Star Trek total sum of human knowledge kind of a thing. I can’t [...]
WAYNE, NJ – JVC Professional Products Company today announced that CNN has purchased 177 GY-HM100U ProHD camcorders, which JVC understands is the first step in a process to replace hundreds of aging, tape-based DV camcorders now in use throughout CNN’s global operations. Additional cameras are expected to be purchased by CNN in 2011. A compact, handheld [...]
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