Earth Hour creeps across the globe

COPENHAGEN–From sprawling royal palaces to the coziest cafés, Copenhagen powered down tonight as the wave of global darkness that is EarthHour passed through the Danish capital.

Denmark’s Queen Magrethe II set the tone, ordering the dousing of lights at her winter residence at Amalienborg and matching shutdowns at the royal palaces of Fedensborg, Sorgenfri, Grasten, Marselisborg and the Hermitage.(Hope you all had a Happy Earth Hour!)-Daryl

In the world of mobile ad campaigns, boomers can’t get a signal

Are North American mobile phone companies missing the boat by ignoring the exploding boomer market in favour of hip gadgets and services directed at those in their teens and twenties?

Newspapers, magazines, television and billboards are flooded with cellphone ad campaigns aimed squarely at the youth market, whose love of text messaging, social networking and, yes, chatting for hours on the phone are what largely drive the profits of service providers and hardware manufacturers.

In contrast, the boomer generation, whose high disposable income is coveted by so many industries, seems to be strangely overlooked by the mobile phone sector.

A CBC without an orchestra can be sound step for Radio 2

Don’t mess with what we know and love – especially if it’s our music.

We treat our radio stations like an infant who has grown attached to her first teddy bear.

CBC Radio 2 has for years been the favourite plush toy for the country’s classical music listeners.

Like many a teddy, our radio network has lost its eyes somewhere along the way. The fur is stained and matted. The ripped fabric around the neck has let some stuffing spill out.