EVDO Buddy Breathing

February 13, 2006

Brad Feld has tips on how to use share one laptop’s EVDO card with another.

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Wireless Email Heats Up

February 13, 2006

On several occasions over the past few months, clients and others have mentioned how eager they were to move off the Blackberry onto a more sophisticated handheld platform, without losing the ‘berry’s excellent email capabilities – many of the people I work with have pretty sophisticated appetites for handheld technology. Indeed, just today I was […]

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Rogers Announces Fall Launch of HSDPA

February 13, 2006

From Canadian Press: Rogers Communications Inc. said Monday that it has awarded Ericsson AB the contract to supply a very high-speed wireless data network that will be faster than anything currently operating in this country. … Rogers Wireless, Canada’s largest cellphone company since it acquired the Fido network in late 2004, said it will begin […]

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LSAT Privacy Complaint in B.C.

February 13, 2006

The CBC is reporting that the B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner is invetigating a complaint over the fingerprinting of those taking the Law School Admission Test. Gist: B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis has agreed to investigate a complaint about the fingerprinting of aspiring lawyers. A thumbprint is required to take the Law School […]

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“Reasonable Notice” in Ontario

February 12, 2006

While it may come as a surprise to some of the American readers of this blog, in Canada we do not have the employment “at will” doctrine familiar to many Americans. In common law Canada, employers may generally only terminate the employment of non-unionized employees upon “reasonable notice” (the terms of employment of unionized employees […]

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Kushnick on Pulver

February 11, 2006

Bruce Kuchnick guest blogs on Jeff Pulver’s blog today.

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Microsoft’s (Lack of) Marketing Mojo

February 11, 2006

Mathew Ingram and Paul Kedrosky have now both responded to Robert Scoble’s rant about blogger bias over Google’s hosted gmail, and as Kedrosky points out the ground seems to have been fully covered. What I’m left wondering, though, is mentioned in a point I made on Scoble’s blog and is also noted in Mathew’s post. […]

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Hosted GMail Arrives

February 11, 2006

Google has quietly started offering a hosted Gmail service and its launch is the shot heard ’round the world, at least for some who pine for the demise of MS Outlook, which many see as suffering for the new competition – particularly in the small business / organization market. Others no doubt crave more competition […]

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New Google Desktop Search Arrives to (Surprise!) Controversy

February 10, 2006

Just weeks after the U.S. Justice Department’s attempt to access search histories from Google and other search firms, Google has released a new version of Google Desktop Search that optionally allows users to store the search index online, the better to permit GDS to search across multiple installations of the user and to permit the […]

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FON and its ‘Interested’ Advisors

February 9, 2006

Shortly after the recent FON financing announcement, several A list bloggers who were also on FON’s advisory board blogged the news. It certainly helped spread the FON news to generally praiseworthy reaction, until folks started questioning how ISPs would react (the FON plan would put bandwidth-sharers offside most ISP’s TOS), and certainly only until Speakeasy, […]

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RIM Details Workaround

February 9, 2006

RIM has announced some details of the workaround: Once consumers download the workaround, RIM said, the software upgrade will be invisible to them. Functionality of the BlackBerry devices and servers will remain the same even when it’s working in U.S. mode. The company didn’t detail the specifics about how the software differs from the NTP […]

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More Antitrust Interest in Online Music

February 9, 2006

From SiliconValley.com, “European Union antitrust regulators said Tuesday they were investigating the European agencies that collect royalties for musicians from Internet sites — in parallel with other EU moves to open up the European market for online music.” Gist: The European Commission said it was concerned that the groups’ contracts with composers — organized strictly […]

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