March 2008

Squawk Box March 26, Guests Jon Arnold and Marc Robins

March 26, 2008

We had another great SquawkBox this morning, with as many as 21 people on the line.  My guests were Jon Arnold of J Arnold and Associates, and Jon's colleague and business partner Marc Robins of Robins Group.  The focus of the call was two fold.  We talked about the conferences people have been attending in the last couple of weeks [...]

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Web sites are broken under Safari

March 26, 2008

I was just chatting with my brother Matthew last night about the problems we're having with Safari.  Indeed, he tells me that his company (the award winning Drupal site developer pingVision) has similar headaches.  And this morning, Computerworld reports the same — that many web sites don't work under Safari. Flash, in particular, seems to [...]

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“Deep Dial” to bypass annoying IVR trees

March 26, 2008

I finally had the opportunity to catch up with Fonolo's Shai Berger last week at the VON.x show, and learn what they're all about.  Fonolo's "Deep dialing" let's users skip the IVR tree of the companies that they dial in to, and just reach the person they need to reach.  A user starts by finding [...]

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Squawk Box March 25

March 25, 2008

What a great call this morning.  We discussed two topics:  First, allegations have emerged that Bell Canada is throttling traffic to DSL wholesalers. A group of enterprising folks on the DSL Reports forum have tracked this, and it's causing quite a stink.  Consensus among our callers: transparency is the real issue.  If the service provider [...]

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iPhone: Brilliant. Frustrating.

March 25, 2008

Last Friday night I bought an iPhone at the Valley Fair mall in Cupertino, took it back to my hotel room and five minutes later had it cracked using the excellent ZiPhone software.  I've been living with it non-stop since, in part because Robert Scoble told us all at VON during a panel that the [...]

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Squawk Box March 25 Preview

March 25, 2008

Today we're going to talk about two topics: First, allegations have emerged that Bell Canada is throttling traffic to DSL wholesalers. A group of enterprising folks on the DSL Reports forum have tracked this, and it's causing quite a stink. Second, the New Yorker has published an extensive piece on the death of the newspaper. [...]

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It’s time to abolish VC beauty contests

March 25, 2008

A friend of mine pointed out the Canadian Innovation Exchange event happening in Toronto to myself and another entrepreneur and suggested we might consider attending.  There are some really good looking sessions there from some good VCs who are no doubt looking to increase deal flow a little.  For companies that are selected to present, [...]

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Meet Rick Segal in person at Ottawa’s VC Roundtable

March 24, 2008

Want to know what it will take to get a VC interested in your company? Everybody's favorite Canadian VC Rick Segal is coming to Ottawa on April 16 for the Ottawa edition of the VC Round Table and he wants to talk to you.  Here's your chance to informally interact with VCs, learn about what [...]

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Squawk Box March 24

March 24, 2008

This morning's Squawk Box recording quality is a little poor, which I apologize for.  We have some noisy background coming from one of the lines and it was impossible to remove.  Still, we had a good call talking about: The winners of the 700Mhz auction in the US last week.  Verizon appeared to be the [...]

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Forgive your neighbor. Easter is upon us.

March 22, 2008

It's Easter, and I won't make any attempt to hide the fact that I was brought up and am a practicing (albeit infrequently) Christian.  Easter is the celebration in the Christian mythos where Jesus dies and is resurrected in order to absolve us all from the Sins we have committed in our lives.  It's an [...]

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