By Joe Wilcox, Betanews

Office 365 is live. Larger businesses will find savings compared to what they pay Microsoft now for PC software but hefty overhead compared to Google’s hosted productivity suite.

Compared to your full-sized desktop keyboard, typing on your phone’s tiny software keyboard just plain sucks. Luckily, Android users can choose from a myriad of different keyboards, meaning you can find one that caters to your typing style. Here’s how to find the right one for you. More »

Microsoft Office 365, the company’s competitor to Google Apps, shed its beta label this morning. Microsoft published release notes and unveiled tiered pricing plans that start at $6/month per user for small businesses and ranges between $10 and $27/month per user for large enterprises depending on the features needed. More »

The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.

    —  Woody Allen

Thanks Tommy Salami

350,000 Android activation per days was the magical number a couple months back, then in May it was 400,000. Today, the father of Android, Google’s Andy Rubin tweeted “There are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it’s growing at 4.4% w/w”. Big number and Android seems to be having a good time taking over. Would be cool to the country breakdown of where the half a million activations per day is coming from, specifically where Canada stacks up.

Source: Twitter
Via: Phandroid

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Rovio’s Angry Birds game has taken on a life of it’s own and is practically on every mobile platform possible. On May 19th Rovio’s CEO Mikael Hed said Angry Birds was downloaded over 200 million times. New reports from Forbes states that Rovio made $20 million in revenue last quarter and Angry Birds passed over the 250 million download mark, with a goal to reach a billion downloads by the end of next year. In addition to all the plush toys, cookbooks and shirts, Rovio is going to be releasing their first full length animation film and have hired David Maisel, the former chairman of Marvel Studios as executive producer. Sounds like Angry Birds will be around for a few more years.

Source: Forbes

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Two weeks after the Playboy founder was dumped by Miss December 2009, Crystal Harris, days before their wedding, he’s now dating Miss November 2010.

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Patience is the operative word as Canada Post begins the process of getting mail service up and running again after the government passed back-to-work legislation on the weekend to end nearly a month of labour woes.

There’s still no official Instagram app for Android so you’ll have to settle for the next best thing: an Instagram browser app. Specifically made for Android Honeycomb, HoneyGram takes advantage of the sweeping screen and gestures to see hipster pictures. More »

70 LIGHTNING STRIKES IN ONE SHOT

Photograph by CHRIS KOTSIOPOULOS

Photographer’s Description: Fire in the sky! This is an image sequence containing 70 lightning shots, taken at Ikaria island during a severe thunderstorm.

Taken with: Canon EOS 550D, 16/6/2011 1:17 – 2:40, Shutter Speed 20 sec x 70 shots, Aperture Value 7.1, ISO 400, Lens Canon EF50mm f/1.8 II, Focal Length 50.0 mm

via Chris Kotsiopoulos’ Official Site

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Air Canada’s customer service and airport workers have voted 87.7 per cent in favour of a new collective agreement reached under the threat of back-to-work legislation, the Canadian Auto Workers union said Monday.

This promo is aptly timed with the Bell/Virgin launch and will also compete with the recent SaskTel offering . TELUS has rolled out a new promo in Saskatchewan that includes 200 Local Anytime minutes, Evenings and Weekends starting at 6PM, Unlimited Nationwide Family Calling, Voice Mail, Call Waiting and Conference Calling, unlimited Text/Picture/Video messaging, free Voicemail and 5GB data (Tethering included). The cost is $55 a month and it’s on until June 30th.

More here at TELUS
(Thanks Scott!)

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North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple says he believes Saskatchewan did what it could to hold off the flooding Souris River.

As expected Bell and Virgin Mobile officially turned on their 4G network in Saskatchewan today. This brings peak download speeds of up to 21 Mbps, but you can expect “typical speeds of 3.5 to 8 Mbps”. The good news is that all the latest devices from both carriers are available, the iPhone 4, Bold 9780, Galaxy S, Wilfire S, Incredible S… now it’s going to come down to who has the best monthly rate plans. You can count on SaskTel to compete for more business now…

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