CES 2009 has come and gone and we were there to cover the event. There were a lot of products and companies represented and BCCHardware tried to cover a wide array of products in order to appeal to many different readers. We managed to cover everything from BFG’s new Phobos system to mobile stuff from [...]
The New Year has arrived and I find myself somehow glad that 2008 is over. It was a good year, but 2009 brings with it the 4th Anniversary of BCCHardware.com. We have also just published our 400th review and there is a bit of a giveaway going on if you’re interested in getting free stuff.
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I live in rural Alberta here in Western Canada, and our cellular providers and options are limited. If you live in a large city, you’ve got a lot more choices. The biggest choices here in Southern Alberta are Telus and Bell on the CDMA network, while Rogers and Fido live on the GSM network. Where [...]
A few weeks ago, Sonim sent me a press release regarding their “Xtreme Performance One” (XP1) phone that claims to be one of the toughest phones around. If you don’t believe me, you can head on over to testanddestroy.com to check out the punishment that this phone can endure. At the time of this writing, [...]
I was asked to speak at the Communities Without Boundaries conference at the Vulcan, AB location this past weekend. The goal of this conference is to inform, support and encourage businesses to start, grow and expand outside of cities. With rural broadband available, tech-based businesses have opportunities to start and grow in a rural setting [...]
The other day, I picked up one of the Acer Aspire One machine and I’ve got to say, I’m very impressed with this little unit. For those of you that don’t know what it is, check out the details over here and the image below.
This is a snappy little machine with a 1.6GHz CPU with [...]
I recently picked up a 120GB Zune on a blowout sale for just over $200 making it one of the cheapest/GB players around. I owned an 80GB iPod Classic and a 16GB iPod Touch at this point and was able to sell off my 80GB Classic for 75% of the cost of the new Zune. [...]
Microsoft has allotted 300 Million for their latest advertising campaign that tries to undo the damage that has been done by the “Mac vs. PC” ads done by Apple. The first couple of ads featured casual banter between Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld and mostly felt like Seinfeld mini-episodes that were so far left [...]
August was a very busy month at BCCHardware and while we didn’t have the most reviews posted ever, we are now up to 363 Reviews and growing. We received a lot of new gear this past month and a lot of it is on the bench being tested right now. For instance, we’ve got an [...]
Things have been wicked busy around here lately. My real job has kept me hopping as well as helping Daniel of SLAGD with his house roof (weekend before last). Regardless, products have been rolling in, and rolling through the shop before they roll back out and the last three reviews off the bench are as [...]
