Canadian ILECs Appeal CRTC Ruling

June 15, 2005

Mark Evans posts on the appeals of the CRTC VoIP decision that ILECS have started to launch. The post is attracting some interesting comments, but they’re frustratingly anonymous. Hmmm, I bet he has the IP addresses though :)

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EFF Legal Guide for Bloggers

June 15, 2005

The EFF has followed up their excellent guide on blogging anonymously with a guide on the US law that applies to blogging. I’ve added it to my sticky post on Corporate and Employee blogging resources. I like the summary at IO Error: The guide is comprised of nine FAQs which address a wide spectrum of […]

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OECD Report on Downloading

June 14, 2005

The OECD has released a report that essentially questions whether there is a demonstrable causal relationship between downloading and sales. David Canton covers the report and comments on it in his blog today – read the post here. Wired also has an interesting article on the report. Some quotes: File-swapping networks alone are not to […]

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Is CRIA Beginning a Campaign Against Michael Geist?

June 14, 2005

Michael has posted an essay responding to what appears to be an emergent campaign against him by CRIA. It’s an excellent overview of the current situation and very worthwhile reading. But I’m not surprised to see CRIA take this approach, for a few reasons: 1. Attacking the messenger is PR 101. Not very imaginative, but […]

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Once More, With Feeling

June 13, 2005

Encouraged by the excellent technical support provided by the folks at Feedburner, and also by Fred Wilson’s post today on his feed, I’ve burned another feed and will try it again. This time, it’s a redirect of the RSS 2.0 feed from this site, courtesy of the coding wizardry of Steve Smith. We shall, as […]

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What Happened at Nortel?

June 12, 2005

Mark Evans has a shrewd post this weekend on what might have happened behind the scenes at Nortel to trigger the sudden departures of COO Gary Daichendt and CTO Gary Kunis.

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Tech Recruiting is Hard

June 12, 2005

Gretchen, a Microsoft recruiter, blogged recently on the difficulty of doing tech recruiting well – and took a few shots at her colleagues who come to her looking for the impossible. Gretchen’s comments are an interesting insight into the recruitment process and how H/R works with the operating people. But the post has also been […]

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Compensation for Outside Directors

June 12, 2005

Brad Feld posts his thoughts on the norms for compensation of outside directors.

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On RIM and NTP

June 11, 2005

The latest news on the breakdown of the settlement agreement, Simon Avery’s column in the Globe, says that the deal appears to have broken down over: who will be able to license the disputed patents to other parties, and not necessarily RIM’s immediate partners and suppliers, but third parties who could end up buying the […]

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More background on the FBI’s Troubled Case Management System

June 10, 2005

WaPo has detailed background on the project to develop the FBI’s much vaunted case management system – a project recently abandoned: By 2004, the report found, the FBI had identified 400 problems with early versions of the troubled software — but never told the contractor. The bureau also went ahead with a $17 million testing […]

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Ditching Feedburner Feed – For Now

June 10, 2005

Some of the subscribers to my feed have been reporting trouble with the Feedburner feed so for now I’m de-burning and reverting back to the usual array of feeds (see sidebar). For most readers, no action is required, because the Feedburner feed was implemented with a redirect. But if you subscribed via FB directly, you’ll […]

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I, Cringely on Apple – Intel

June 9, 2005

Robert Cringely has written one of the more interesting articles on the Apple switch to Intel: The crowd this week in San Francisco at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference seemed mildly excited by the prospect of its favorite computer company turning to Intel processors. The CEO of Adobe asked why it had taken Apple so […]

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