No Decision on Canadian Satellite Radio

September 8, 2005

The Globe is reporting that the Cabinet is flummoxed by the satellite radio issue, and that no decision is expected any time soon. A group of top federal cabinet ministers has failed to resolve a high-stakes battle over the future of satellite radio in Canada, reflecting a deep split within the government on the controversial […]

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E-mail Flamewar Over Missing Sandwich Results in Termination

September 8, 2005

Two legal secretaries at Allens Arthur Robinson, a Sydney law firm (I suspect neither of them is the happy mug pictured on the website), have been fired for e-mail abuse after a flamewar broke out when a ham sandwich – yes, a ham sandwich – went missing. The missing ham sandwich still has not been […]

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The Sales Learning Curve

September 7, 2005

David Cowan at Who Has Time for This? has a post today titled “The Best Startup Advice I Have” on the difficulty of modelling accurate sales forecasts. He writes about the Sales Learning Curve theory developed by Stanford Business Professor Mark Leslie: Leslie’s approach springs from the observation that factories would never presume to produce […]

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Proposal to Broaden Criminal Code Provisions Permitting e-Tracking

September 6, 2005

The Ottawa Citizen reports today on proposals, said to be intended for inclusion in amendments to the Criminal Code intended for the fall, under which “police and security agencies would be able to surreptitiously track unwitting Canadians via their cellphones, BlackBerries and laptop computers, even when the devices are turned off or their location features […]

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On Blog Spam

September 6, 2005

Tyler Hamilton writes in the Toronto Star on the scourge of blog spam: No matter where you go, what you do, or where you hide on the Internet, the one thing you can always count on is that spammers will find you. They’re like the grim reaper and the tax man. And the blogging community […]

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Ontario to Phase Out Labour Fund Tax Credits

September 5, 2005

The Ontario Government has announced that it will phase out the 15% tax credit available to investors in labour sponsored investment funds. “The province will introduce legislation that would, if approved, eliminate the LSIF tax credit no earlier than the end of the 2005 tax year.” Vengrowth’s reaction is here. Paul Kedrosky, who calls the […]

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Judicial Interpretation of Browsewrap Agreements

September 5, 2005

Some comments of an Illinois appeals court in a recent decision upholding the mandatory arbitration provisions of a browsewrap agreement offer more positive signs that courts are increasingly expecting common sense of browsers. The blue hyperlink entitled “Terms and Conditions of Sale” appeared on numerous Web pages the plaintiffs completed in the ordering process. The […]

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Light Posting This Week

August 30, 2005

I’m in the land of dialup this week, so posting will be light.

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More on Canadian Satellite Radio Reconsideration

August 29, 2005

Further to my post over the weekend, the Globe is running an article summarizing industry lobbying against the reconsideration being proposed by Heritage Minister Liza Frulla.

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Your odio.us Gateway to Web 2.0 Riches

August 29, 2005

Get it while it’s hot – your custom Web 2.0 killer app business plan elevator pitch.

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The Ultimate Disclaimer

August 29, 2005

For anyone convinced that a longer, more exhaustive disclaimer is the one true path to legal risk nirvana, here finally is your best tool to extinguish all legal risk, sanitize all of your business dealings, and of course, leave your whites smelling fresh and clean: the ultimate disclaimer, weighing in at a dizzying 7,500 words […]

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Using Celphones to Pay for Parking

August 29, 2005

BusinessWeek TechBeat Blog is reporting that a major U.S. city will this week begin to allow residents to pay for parking with celphones: A major U.S. city will announce this week that it will allow its residents to pay for their parking wirelessly, with their cell phones. It won’t be the first to do that: […]

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