No Comments | PEER 1 10 Year Anniversary Tattoo’s from Charnell Pugsley on Vimeo.
Today at PEER 1 and ServerBeach, we are celebrating 10 years in business. It’s a blast right now! Our staff of 360 in 12 offices around the world have been divided into two teams: Orange and Lime. We’ve got games going on over the next [...]
No Comments | Last week, I had the pleasure of touring the humungus Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. Suren Singh of Microsft gave myself and my colleagues a personal tour of the grounds which is home to over 30,000 employees and spreads across 8 million square feet. I still can’t get my head around it. What struck me [...]
3 Comments | Cool new point-and-shoot video camcorder called the Flip Video Mino by Pure Digital Technologies is the size of a small digital camera, but can record up to 60 minutes of video and publish straight to YouTube, AOL Video, and MySpace through its internal software. You can see a Flip Video demo here. It retails for [...]
3 Comments | Yesterday, at 9:30am EST, my PEER 1 colleagues and I were given the opportunity to open the market for the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) (on which we are listed under the symbol PIX). What a cool experience and one that I won’t soon forget. I remember back in university taking a course on corporate valuation taught by a former Wall [...]
5 Comments | Another cool online tool for small businesses. Drop.io lets you seamlessly store files online from your desktop through your Firefox browser (with the plugin), and then share them. The service is very cheap starting at $10 per gigabyte per year. If you have ever had your computer crash, you know how painful losing important files [...]
5 Comments | The new and faster Apple iPhone 3G will be available in Canada through Rogers and Fido beginning July 11th. The data plan pricing hasn’t been revealed but the price of the phone will be the same as in the US, $199 for the eight-gigabyte version and $299 for the 16-gigabyte version. I’m one of the [...]
5 Comments | This is a proud day for my company. PEER 1 announced today our record Third Quarter results, our seventh consecutive quarter of record profitable growth, and that we will start trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) main board beginning Tuesday, May. 20th. Up until now, we’ve been trading on the smaller TSX Venture exchange.
“The [...]
5 Comments | I think I’m in love. The newly re-designed 2009 Audi A4 is coming to North America in September. Can’t wait to see those beaded headlights face-to-face.
4 Comments | Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
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7 Comments | A professor at the University of East Anglia in the UK conducted a research on the impact of profanity in the workplace. He found that swearing under certain circumstances helped build moral, foster solidarity amongst employees, expressed frustration, and relieved stress. I knew my potty-mouth was intended for the betterment of mankind. Read the findings [...]
