Canadian Celphone Industry Should be More Competitive; Rates Lower

December 12, 2005

The Globe reports: “Cellphone use in Canada isn’t taking off like in other parts of the world, and regulatory policy should be revamped in order to make rates more attractive and the wireless industry more competitive, the C.D. Howe Institute warns.” We didn’t really need the Institute to report on this, but I suppose every […]

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The VC Process – Behind the Scenes

December 12, 2005

Rick Segal has a mammoth post that goes into great detail on the process from introduction to funding with his firm: One question that comes up is about the VC process and what to expect, timing, process, etc. I’ve put together this long entry in an attempt to give you our process in the hopes […]

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Washington Internet Daily on Online Rights Canada

December 12, 2005

I was recently interviewed by the Washington Internet Daily about the creation of Online Rights Canada. The article appears today but is subscription only – here’s what I was quoted as saying: Unlike the U.S., Canada has few public-interest organizations on telecom, IP, Internet, privacy and related matters, Hyndman told Washington Internet Daily. Lobbying by […]

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Toronto Libraries to Offer DRM-Protected Downloadable Books

December 12, 2005

The Globe reports that downloadable books are coming to Toronto libraries, but not to its patron’s iPods: The Toronto Public Library is on the verge of a deal to provide downloadable audio books, but the system won’t be compatible with Apple’s iPod, the hugely popular portable audio player. Joanne Lombardo, the librarian responsible for electronic […]

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Boredom With Blogging

December 12, 2005

There’s an interesting post and discussion at Joi Ito’s about boredom with blogging. It’s notable, from a lifecycle of technology perspective, that people who were at the front edge of blogging are growing weary of it just as the rest of the world catches up. I’m left wondering whether there’s a link between this and […]

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Fingerprint Scanners Fooled By Play-Doh

December 12, 2005

From Slashdot: YubaNet is reporting that in recent tests by Stephanie C Schuckers, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Clarkston University, she has shown that, among other things, biometric security measures were fooled 90% of the time by simple attacks like Play-Doh molds. From the article: “Schuckers’ biometric research is funded by […]

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The TV News Media and the Largest Civil Engineering Disaster in U.S. History

December 11, 2005

One of the better signs of the increasing irrelevance of a large swath of the TV news media has been its inability to remember that there is no longer a New Orleans, and its seeming preference for a storyline that attributes the destruction of that city to Mother Nature, and perhaps also fairies, instead of […]

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Triangulation

December 11, 2005

Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak and Lawrence Lessig have recorded Episode 1 of Triangulation, a new podcast examining a tech issue of the day in detail. Episode 1 looks closely at Google Print and is an excellent start. So far Triangulation is in trial run – give it a listen and send in your supportive […]

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The Growth of IT Offshoring to Cuba

December 10, 2005

The Globe reports on the growing use by Canadian companies of Cuba as an IT offshoring destination. Gist: Since 1991, Cuba’s information technology sector has been developing at warp speed and now consists of about 45,000 highly skilled workers, 38 per cent of whom have specialized degrees. More than 85 per cent of the country’s […]

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Celphone Tracking Under Increasing Judicial Scrutiny in the U.S.

December 10, 2005

The NYT has an article today on the increasing judicial scrutiny of applications by U.S. law enforcement to monitor the movements of criminal suspects by tracking the signals from their celphones. Gist: In recent years, law enforcement officials have turned to cellular technology as a tool for easily and secretly monitoring the movements of suspects […]

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The Buzz About Yahoo!

December 10, 2005

Is it just me, or is it on again at Yahoo!?

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Senior Software Developers Wanted

December 10, 2005

Larry Borsato has a post on three opportunities available with LiveHive in Waterloo.

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