Thursday, September 27, 2007

Tungle wins at DEMO 2007

by alec on September 27, 2007

 Just after midnight last night I received email from Tungle CEO Marc Gingras to say that they had won a DEMOgod award in San Diego.  Congratulations to the team! Well done adding to the roster of great Canadian startups winning at DEMO!

The DEMO conference, by the way, has a new and very easy way to watch videos of the demos online.  Visit www.demo.com to check them out yourself.

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MaxRoam goes live

by alec on September 27, 2007

Cubic's MaxRoam SIM goes live today.  This is the SIM that lets you roam your phone internationally at local rates.  David Pogue's article in the NY Times is a good and balanced write-up.  As Andy Abramson noted, Pogue must have actually used the product.

I'll be grabbing one of these and sticking it into a spare handset.  I'm sure it will save money.  Last night, for example, I made a couple of calls to India.  Who knows how much they cost me?  And since taking my rarely used North American roaming off my Rogers plan, I'll need something next month at VON.

Oh, and one lucky person who buys a MaxRoam SIM today (September 27) will win an unlocked iPhone. 

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Beyond photos: 3 more LinkedIn improvements I'd like to see

September 27, 2007

With Facebook grabbing the social networking limelight, LinkedIn needed to do something.  Starting Friday, users will be able to add photos to their profiles.  It's a small step.  Here are three things which would help me make more use of LinkedIn. A better way to manage my LinkedIn inbox.  It's inundated with questions, most of [...]

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Digium acquires Switchvox

September 27, 2007

In the news this morning, Digium has acquired SwitchVox, one of the vendors of open source based PBX's based on Asterisk.  In CRN, Digium VP Bill Miller is quoted, saying: "Switchvox gives us a more complete solution that scales to several hundred users," said Bill Miller, vice president of product management and marketing at Digium, [...]

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