Bell Launches EV-DO

November 1, 2005

Tyler has the details on Bell’s launch of EV-DO in Toronto and Montreal yesterday: Bell Mobility yesterday launched its so-called 3G or third-generation wireless network in Toronto and Montreal, where users will get data download speeds as high as 2.4 megabits per second — as fast as many home high-speed Internet services that use cable […]

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Consumer Measures Committee on Preventing Identity Theft

October 31, 2005

David Canton covers the Consumer Measures Committee‘s public consultations on identity theft in his latest article on Canoe. The article is here. The Consumer Measures Committee (CMC), a Canadian forum of representatives from all levels of government, conducted a public consultation from July 6 to Sept. 15 on how to prevent identity theft in Canada. […]

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Joel on Custom Software Development

October 30, 2005

Joel on Software has a touché rant about custom development in a recent post: Custom development is that murky world where a customer tells you what to build, and you say, ‘are you sure?’ and they say yes, and you make an absolutely beautiful spec, and say, ‘is this what you want?’ and they say […]

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What’s all This Fixation on Fixation?

October 29, 2005

Try as I might, when I wonder where the Google Print case is going, I keep returning to the idea that society ought to start thinking of “copying” in a more purposive sense. This because the digital exploitation of content, which may create infringing copies to facilitate that exploitation, seems often to do so for […]

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The Zen of Spam

October 28, 2005

Someone ought to start compiling a list of spams or phishes notable for their hilarity. This one had me ROTFL: “Ebay Notification : Posibile Account Hack Dear valued eBay member, Our IP sentinel has detected a strange IP using you eBay account and it might be used for illegal activities.If you could please take 5-10 […]

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Venture Voice Podcast

October 28, 2005

Via Dane Carlson, a new podcast that explores the ins and outs of starting a business. “Venture Voice has recently done interviews with Mena Trott of Six Apart, Jason Fried of 37signals and Tom Szaky of TerraCycle.”

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Podcast Pitching

October 27, 2005

Business 2.0 writes about VC pitches made via podcast. It’s touted as an easy way for VC’s to screen pitches.

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Lessig is a TWiT

October 25, 2005

Lawrence Lessig joins the TWiTs for the latest TWiT podcast, and it’s a great show, featuring a hearty and informed debate on cultural and technological implications of Creative Commons and restrictive intellectual property laws generally.

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Mixed Messages From RIM?

October 24, 2005

An odd juxtaposition of messages today coming out of RIM today in the NTP case. Reuters has reported that RIM’s COO stated yesterday at an industry conference in Munich that the company was not seeing evidence that the lawsuit was slowing their business: “We’re not seeing anything that’s telling us that people are holding back,” […]

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Motorola v. Nortel

October 23, 2005

The Motorola lawsuit against new Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski is turning out to be fascinating tale – for lawyers, at any rate. But it must be painfully frustrating for employees of Nortel, who have suffered through round after round of disappointment. The constant drum beat of corporate missteps is a black hole into which all […]

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No Segways for Toronto

October 22, 2005

Tyler reports on the City’s decision to keep our sidewalks and streets clear of Segways (the Torontoist covers the story but can’t resist the urge to run pictures of George W. Bush taking a spill off a Segway). He links to background and to Segway’s response. The decision apparently turns on a characterization of the […]

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Less on the Do-Not-Hesitate-To-Call List

October 22, 2005

Generally a follow-up posting would be ‘more’, but this one is definitely less. Michael Geist writes on the depressing state of affairs over the House’s review of the Do Not Call legislation, which seems to have been overtaken by an Orwellian departure from reality and a Kafka-esque descent into absurdist theatre. I quite enjoyed Michael’s […]

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