Rogers DNS outage
Rogers customers are currently experiencing service disruptions due to what appears to be a problem with their DNS servers. DNS or Domain Name System is what the internet uses to translate Server IP addresses into Server names. For example actually has the IP address If you click on the second link you will go to the same webpage. Since it’s far easier to remember names then numbers DNS does the heavily lifting for us. If…
iOS6 arrives in Canada
Apple released iOS6 today and people are already updating their various devices to the new OS. I’ve just finished updating my iPhone 4s. It is working but there was some issues which I feel it might be worth waiting a day or two for a patch before updating. Main problem is that many people have been reporting problems connecting to their Wi-Fi networks. A quick search of the Apple support boards show several different solutions.…
Bleak times for Rim
Most people were expecting the news from Research In Motion (RIM) to be bad, even the company had warned of a bad first quarter. The results released were worse then expected but the most shocking news was the Blackberry 10 operating system which the company is betting the farm on has been delayed yet again to Q1 2013. In addition a third of the staff will be laid off. This misses the vital back to…