Net Neutrality Lobbying

March 13, 2006

Jeff Pulver has posted a draft letter to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce urging the members of the Committee to support net neutrality.

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Using Source Code Discovery to Challenge DUI Charges

March 13, 2006

AP has a piece summarizing the state-of-play in the U.S. on efforts by defendants to use legal discovery of testing equipment source code to challenge driving under the influence charges.

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Canadian Wi-Fi Theft a Media Non-Event

March 11, 2006

Last week the OPP charged a man in Morrisburg, Ontario for what appears to have been theft of wi-fi. (Sparse) Details in my post on the topic (and see Glenn Fleishman’s take here). What surprises me about the story is the lack of Canadian mainstream media interest in the issue. When a Florida man was […]

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Larry’s up to Something

March 10, 2006

Larry Borsato, the developer of the blogging tool Bleezer, is up to something new. Stay tuned.

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Sling Media Comes to Canada

March 10, 2006

Mark Evans reported yesterday that Sling is coming to Canada. Interesting news, coming on the heels of this week’s Origami and Toronto muniwifi announcements; soon, TV everywhere. Notably, some have said that Sling is having trouble in the U.S. working with the cel carriers, who want to deliver mobile video themselves. Muniwifi clouds will of […]

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Blogworthy Canadian Newspapers

March 10, 2006

A week after it covered the best blogging newspapers in the U.S., Blue Plate Special looks at the state of play in Canada. It’s not a bad article, though I don’t think the writer quite captured what’s happening at the Globe and Mail these days – I suspect the story was written before the Globe’s […]

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Ontario Man Charged for Wardriving

March 8, 2006

The details are sketchy at this point, but the OPP have charged a man under Section 326 of the Criminal Code for wardriving. Via Michael Geist.

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Google Radio?

March 8, 2006

After Google’s recent purchase of dMarc, the radio advertising business, there was considerable speculation over how dMarc might fit into Google’s AdSense world. But with the recent announcement of Toronto’s wifi cloud, an intriguing possibility comes to mind. With wifi clouds forming everywhere these days, put a wifi PDA into everyone’s hands and you’ve got […]

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Vonage Protests Shaw Third Party VoIP QoS Fee

March 7, 2006

Almost a year ago Shaw started offering its customers a $10 QoS fee to provide quality of service assurance on third party VoIP services, such as Vonage. As I wrote in an article on net neutrality in the January issue of Butterworth’s Internet and E-Commerce Law in Canada, the price seemed designed to neutralize the […]

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Toronto Hydro Wi-Fi Announcement and Pushback

March 7, 2006

Toronto Hydro has made the expected announcement of a wifi cloud over Toronto. The (by December 31) footprint is from Spadina to Jarvis and Front to Bloor, with the downtown core to be operational by the end of June, and the suggestion of further expansion later. Lots more info at Wireless Toronto’s blog. Mark Evans’ […]

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More Coverage of Toronto Wi-Fi Cloud

March 7, 2006

Tyler has more coverage today on the Toronto muniwifi cloud, ahead of Toronto Hydro’s expected announcement. His colleague David Bruser covers the 905 angle.

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Is Employee Blogging the Safest Form of Communication?

March 6, 2006

Denise Howell has a whip-smart piece on Between Lawyers on how employee blogs may well be the safest form of employee communication, from a corporate risk standpoint. Gist: compared to the alternatives, the publicity of the medium self-regulates disclosure.

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