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Canadian Soldiers Told To Use Caution On Facebook

The Canadian Defense Department is warning its soldiers not to post personal photos on social networking sites like Facebook, because of security concerns.A memo told soldiers not to wear their uniforms in online photos and not to reveal their military ties. The CBC reported the memo said," Al Qaeda operatives are monitoring Facebook and other social networking sites."

Enhanced Drivers Licenses Worry Canadians

Canada's privacy advocates have expressed concern over enhanced driver's licenses that are being issued in British Columbia.

U.S. Online Gambling Deal Is Classified

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative reached a deal with the European Union, Japan and Canada over the U.S. ban on online gambling, but the problem is the details of the agreement have never been made public.

Yahoo Canada Sets Sail With Canoe

Yahoo Canada has just entered a strategic alliance with another company, and the company, in typical press release-ese, calls itself "a leading local and national interactive media provider of news, entertainment and services."  Yet in what has to be an example of Canadian humor, the company's name is Canoe.

Facebook Popular In Canada

Toronto is the first North American city to have more than one million subscribers to Facebook according to Calgary based Zinc Research.

Google Frowns On Rogers Injection

Rogers Internet in Canada provides its subscribers with an advisory when they are approaching their account's bandwidth limits, by injecting that notice into a web page they are viewing.

Canadians Favor Internet Guidelines At Work

Canadians think that too much time is being wasted on personal email and Internet use at work. More than half want clearer guidelines from their employers, according to a new poll from Monster.ca.

Paid Search To Take Off In Canada

Canadian revenues from online advertising hit C $1.01 billion (US $894 million) in 2006, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada, a jump of 80 percent in one year.

Ottawa to Hold Auction of the Wireless Spectrum

Tom Peters suggested that for many big companies the words "We're No Worse Than the Other Guy" could be the company motto emblazoned in gold letters over the entrance. He was describing banks but according to a recent survey on customer service the cell phone companies are the lowest on the totem pole.

French, Canadians, (Mark) Cuban Go After P2P

Torrents and peer-to-peer networks have had a rough couple of weeks lately. In addition to Cox and Comcast's recent blocking of torrent sites, file-sharing has been under assault in France and Canada, not to mention from billionaire Mark Cuban.