Mobile VoIP

January 12, 2006

It’s nice to see an increasing number of signs that this is drawing nearer, but I remain as skeptical as ever that this will have any effect on the competitive landscape in Canadian telecom.

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How to Sell

January 12, 2006

Guy Kawasaki’s latest is about the Art of Evangelism, but is really about how to sell … anything. Evangelists of any stripe (I listened to a positively evangelical speech at a political fundraiser earlier this week – this is not just about selling technology) can be irresistible communicators of meaning and value.

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Controversy Over Bulte Comments at All Candidates’ Debate

January 12, 2006

Boing Boing has linked to video shot by Accordion Guy at last night’s All Candidates’ Debate in Parkdale-High Park, the riding of the Liberal MP Sarmite Bulte. Bulte has been at the center of a controversy lately over the media lobby’s involvement in a campaign fundraiser (on which I’ve blogged here, here and here – […]

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New Credit Card Security Initiative

January 12, 2006

Eric Dash at the NYT reports on a joint initiative by VISA and Mastercard to establish new credit card security standards. Gist: Two longtime rivals in the credit card business are working together to create a private group that would set new industrywide security standards as early as the middle of this year, a MasterCard […]

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Excess Copyright

January 11, 2006

Howard Knopf, an IP lawyer in Ottawa with Macera & Jarzyna, LLP, has started a new IP law blog titled “Excess Copyright“. He posts today on “Jack Granatstein – On Political Donations, Access Copyright & Bill C-60”.

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Apple Core

January 11, 2006

As expected, at MacWorld Apple announced its first Intel-based Macs. The pride of the litter is the MacBook Pro, a laptop built on the Core Duo chip. I’ve been looking for the right machine to transition back to Apple, and this could be it. Noticeably absent from Apple’s descriptions, though, is any reference to expected […]

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Bulte Copyright Lobby Fundraiser: Fading Ways?

January 10, 2006

Michael Geist updates one of his earlier posts on this topic with a link to a remakable press release from Fading Ways Records, an independent Canadian record label. Gist: CRIA, via their statistics-heavy press releases, persist on manipulating opinion polls and numbers to claim that they speak for Canadian citizens and the majority of Canadian […]

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Yelp – Trusted Reviews

January 9, 2006

I’ve blogged here before about the value of a trusted review system – a service that would allow one to objectively determine the degree of trust that ought to be afforded the recommendations of others. Yelp is a new web service that attempts to do that by integrating reviews with social networking. The service allows […]

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She Said Copyright

January 9, 2006

Michael Geist posts again on the controversy that has shrouded the Bulte media lobby-sponsored fundraiser. His latest post is a gem – do read the entire piece – but what particularly caught my eye were the comments Michael reprinted from John Bowker, the owner of She Said Boom, a record store located in Bulte’s riding. […]

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FreeCulture DRM Boycott Pledge

January 9, 2006

FreeCulture has posted an pledge to boycott DRM. The pledge is here. Alan Wexelblat at Copyfight has more here.

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Martin on Neutrality (Again)

January 8, 2006

The Register covered the issue of neutrality yesterday with some observations about the FCC’s position, taken from comments of Chairman Martin at CES. Curiously, the Register seems to be certain that the FCC is clearly pro-neutrality: As the paper [the WSJ, in its recent front page article on neutrality] notes, the telecommunications companies have traditionally […]

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Dream On

January 8, 2006

Fred Wilson’s take on network neutrality, a frequent topic of this blog, is getting a lot of attention, for good reason: he’s right. Mark Evans also covered some of these points in his recent article. Gist – the broadband providers are jealous of the application providers’ fatter margins, but: The Telco’s had their chance back […]

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