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RIM has fallen behind big time and they got to innovate fast as they have been leap frogged by Apple and Google. I’m Canadian and sure I want a Canadian technology company to succeed, but that doesn’t mean RIM will because I think they got too comfortable…RIM reminds me of Nortel and it might end up like Nortel if RIM doesn’t swallow its pride. Nortel got so big and popular and they rested on their laurels instead of looking to the future and innovating.

Few days ago, I was browsing the FutureShop.ca and on the front page FutueShop was having this 1 Deal-a-Day Promotion and on March 7th the deal was this spectacular deal on a 15.6 inch Acer Laptop. To be exact it was a Intel Core i3 380M (2.53 Ghz) 15 inch Laptop with 6 GB of RAM and 500 GB of hard drive space for the low price of $499.99.

Earlier in January, I spotted a Canadian rare earth mining company called Great Western Minerals group that trades on the Toronto Venture Exchange, stock symbol GWG.V that broke out from a sideways price consolidation. As you can see from the chart it was hovering at around $0.40 for quite a long time (3-4 months) and then it broke to the upside.

Let me start off by saying that the BlackBerry Curve 8310 I had was not great. I had it for roughly 2.5 years and it was a company phone…I hated it, everything was slow about it from GPS operation to surfing the internet over Edge network and the browser sucked crap.

Currently most of the Android smartphones out there run Android OS version 1.5 to 2.1. Rogers.ca offers some of the newest Android smartphones like the Sony Xperia X10, HTC Magic, Motorola Quench and LG Eve, however even though they are the latest smartphones that Rogers Canada offers, don’t get me wrong they are great multi-function phones, but those phones are still running Android versions 1.5 to 2.1.

Took me a while but following the instructions found on MacOSXonPC.com, I was able to take an old HP NC8000 laptop my brother gave me and turn it into MacBook clone with light specs.  Great for surfing the internet and downloading without worrying about viruses.

Basically, this better performing HP NC8000 Mac Clone was built to replace my old dead eMac computer.

Well, the used Apple eMac that I purchased last year November went kaput. The power supplied on it died. My wife and I were on vacation in California for 2 weeks and when we got back and I tried to power up the eMac I just heard a clicking sound from within the eMac case, it didn’t even power up the screen or hard drive.

Recently I have re-installed Metastock 10 stock charting program on one of my computers running Ubuntu linux. In case you are thinking “Metastock 10 does not run on Linux”, let me clarify…I am running the stock charting program in a VMWare image of Windows XP. The funny thing is a message comes up when I start Metastock that says something like “This program does not run in virtual machines” however, everything seems to work fine.

The Magellan Roadmate 1212 GPS was the first GPS Unit I ever owned. My wife and I went to Best Buy to pick it up, they had it on sale for $149.99 CAD. The goal with this first time car GPS unit purchase was to start with a basic one without all the bells and whistles.

This news is a few months old but here goes. The last time the Russians offered Apple clones was back in the days of the Soviet Union.

Despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs complaints, RUSSIANS have started churning out cloned Mac PCs.  Apple has failed to gain any ground in Russia because the operating system and hardware are just too expensive for everyday Russians to afford.  They don’t see the point of not eating for a year just to buy computer, when they have figured out how to clone them for 50% less or more.