What Do You Want the Internet to Be?

March 8, 2005

The recent news that ISPs were port-blocking Vonage has generated a lot of deep thought over the last few days.  Concern over uneven architecture on the ‘net is spreading and the chatter is hardening.  I first encountered these ideas when I read Lessig’s books but I never really gave serious thought to the possibility that […]

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Fake ID Technology is Booming

March 7, 2005

The NYT reports that advances in simple technologies have made the fake ID extremely difficult to detect.  Quotes: Early last month, after being shut down by the police for two days for serving underage drinkers, the owners of the West End, a Manhattan bar and restaurant near Columbia University, deployed a new weapon in their […]

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Fingerprinting PCs Over the Internet

March 7, 2005

David Fraser has a post on new University of California research that has developed a technique to remotely fingerprint a computer via the internet, even if it’s behind a firewall of shares its IP address. Good grief ….

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How to Protect Yourself From Identity Theft

March 7, 2005

The Office Weblog has a great piece on how to protect yourself from identity theft.  It’s based on US experience but much of it is relevant in Canada, too.

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The Contra View on Tech Support Outsourcing

March 6, 2005

The Register has an interesting piece on the contra view that many businesses have of tech support outsourcing.  Money quote: Shunting tech support to foreign countries is unpopular and a waste of time, according to new research. Even though there is a "worrying" shortage of skilled IT staff in the UK, nine out of ten […]

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Whose Patent is it, Anyway?

March 6, 2005

The NYT has a story on intellectual property theft in China.  The piece focuses on the dispute between Hitachi and GS Magic Stor over the design of the 1" hard drive used in the iPod.  Money quotes: For Western companies competing with China as well as those doing business here, the issue goes well beyond […]

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Vonage Goes Retail in Canada

March 5, 2005

Vonage has announced a deal to sell its VoIP service in London Drugs stores in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba starting March 8.

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The Secret World of Finders

March 5, 2005

Inc. has an interesting article about finders – essentially, those who find financing and M&A opportunities that typically run under the radar of merchant and investment bankers.  Interesting quote: Finders’ character and competence can vary just as widely. "They all have expensive suits, beautiful resumes," says Steve Crane, CEO of CorpHQ, a business incubator in […]

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Vonage Port Blocking Mystery Solved?

March 4, 2005

The FCC has announced a consent decree with ISP Madison River Communication under which it agrees to stop blocking VoIP ports.  Vonage has confirmed that this is the case it recently complained about.

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Think Like an Entrepreneur

March 4, 2005

A friend recently introduced me to the writing of Michael Gerber, and here I find, courtesy of Dane Carlson, an article by Gerber on what makes an entrepreneur.  Money quote (lots more in the article): It’s my position that all successful entrepreneurs possess one fundamental ability, one fundamental quality, one fundamental skill, one fundamental interest, […]

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Mobile VoIP over WiFi

March 4, 2005

In an intriguing development, Towerstream has announced that it is beta testing mobile VoIP over WiFi in Rhode Island.  Quote: Today TowerStream announced the successful completion of Mobile Voice over IP (VoIP) over a WiFi network.  The one-month trial, conducted in Middletown, Rhode Island, leveraged TowerStream’s existing pre-WiMAX network enabling VoIP phone calls to pass […]

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Canadian MuniWiFi

March 4, 2005

Michael Geist has written about MuniWifi, a topic I’ve covered a lot here recently in the US context, in his latest LawBytes column.

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