Monday, January 21, 2008

Squawk Box Jan 21: Slide, Nokia, Facebook and AT&T

by alec on January 21, 2008

It's been a pretty quiet blogging day, despite the turmoil on the financial markets. Martin Luther King day in the United States meant that tech news was slow. In the midst of a 600 point drop on the Toronto Exchange, a few of us got together to record the 11 o'clock daily Squawk Box. Jim Courtney, Howard Thaw, Randall Howard, and myself covered the rumored Facebook / Nokia deal, AT&T's corporate iPod plans, and Slide's $50 million investment.

Tomorrow join us as we speak with National Post columnist Duncan Stewart about trends in 2008. The show will be at 2 Eastern, and we'll cover trends ranging from privacy and anonymity, to cheap cellphones, LED lights and … oil.

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OpenID and the Telegraph

by alec on January 21, 2008

OpenID seems to be building a head of steam. Following announcements by Google and Yahoo, this morning UK newspaper the Telegraph announced that they would also become an OpenID provider, the first newspaper in the world and the first British media company to do so.

How about Facebook next?

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And who pays for iTunes?

January 21, 2008

iPhone has gone corporate. The data plans are aggressive, and the demand seems to be there. Is it enough to dislodge Microsoft or RIM? Only time will tell. Users are already experimenting with iPhone and Outlook/Exchange email, which could make this device into a potent competitor in the workplace. Join us on the 11 AM [...]

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Nokia and Facebook sitting in a tree…

January 21, 2008

You know the rest of that old rhyme, I'm sure. One by one the dominoes are falling. First there was Apple with Facebook on iPhone. Then RIM with Facebook on Blackberry, and Microsoft with Facebook APIs on Windows Mobile. Now it looks as if Nokia might be getting ready to integrate with Facebook and make [...]

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VC in Ontario. It's officially a mess.

January 21, 2008

Ian Graham writes frequently from his soapbox at Blogmatic about startups — especially funding, hiring, business plans and so on. His blog is a bit of a startup CEO handbook in many ways. He asks "Is Startup funding broken in Ontario", inspired by a StartupNorth piece about Brightspark's new incubator model. Brightspark 3.0 is a [...]

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