August 2008

Squawk Box August 21

August 21, 2008

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown On the SquawkBox conference call this morning we discussed the rumours of an iTunes unlimited offering.  The folks over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog published a piece this morning suggesting that Apple might offer (for perhaps $130 year) a subscription “all-you-can-eat” iphone music service, with the option to buy tracks [...]

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Shooting with Nokia

August 21, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to spend a day in Toronto at a super secret location as part of a film shoot that Nokia is doing.  Nokia asked some bloggers to participate to add a little external feedback.  It’s the first time I’ve ever been on an actual film set.  For [...]

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Squawk Box August 20 – iPhone vs N-series Smackdown and Talking Piracy

August 20, 2008

For all the phone geek’s listening in, we had a spirited discussion of Ted Wallingford’s Nokia N-Series vs iPhone 3G Smackdown blog posting on today’s conference call. Ted couldn’t join us on the call, but we discussed whether Ted has the right criteria, and whether we agree with his conclusions. A lot of opinions were expressed.

For those contemplating a purchase, you may want to check out the ChoiceBot model that Nick Desbarats has created, which will allow you to rank various phones based on your personal purchase criteria.

And, starting at 26:33 into the recording we chat with Positech Games Cliff Harris, who has just published a piece titled Talking to Pirates, in which he asked people why they pirated games… and he learned some surprising things.

Raucous, opinionated, and thoroughly enjoyable.

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Taking SquawkBox to a new level

August 20, 2008

The SquawkBox started out as an experiment to see what a multi-person podcast would look like.  I was, frankly, curious about podcasting and curious about whether Calliflower could be a good tool for podcasters. SquawkBox has succeeded far beyond what I had originally anticipated, mushrooming into a daily gathering of industry folks, and filling some [...]

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Wait no longer for iPhone cut and paste

August 20, 2008

After waiting over a year for Apple to release cut and paste on iPhone, the team at OpenClip.org has decided to take matters into their own hands.  They’ve released a library that will allow any developer to add cut and paste to their own iPhone application and are starting to recruit developers to do just [...]

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Ted’s Smackdown

August 20, 2008

My buddy Ted Wallingford has published the definitive criteria for evaluating iPhone versus Nokia N-Series phones.  His Nokia N-Series vs. iPhone 3G: Head to Head Smackdown will give you the tools that you can use to make up your own mind about which phone you would prefer, and your own conclusion may differ from Ted’s.

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Squawk Box August 19 – Sightspeed VP Eric Quanstrom

August 19, 2008

SightSpeed Marketing VP Eric Quanstrom joined us on this morning’s SquawkBox conference call.  This call was inspired by the fact that SightSpeed seems to be multiplying the number of ways that you can use their technology pretty dramatically. They’re touching everything from MySpace to corporate video conferencing.   It seemed a good opportunity to hear from [...]

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Q1 Capital – Canada’s tech capital sector continues to languish.

August 19, 2008

Q1 Capital Partners publishes an online newsletter / blog titled Q-News.  Comparing the state of Canada’s venture sector to our disappointing Olympic medal count, Managing Director Mike Middleton writes: Rather than blather on about the dire state of the Canadian venture capital universe I’ll just let the numbers speak for themselves. CVCA reports Q2 2008 [...]

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iPhone 2.02 resolves stability issues

August 19, 2008

The iPhone 2.02 software was pushed last night, and the last thing I did before bed was to start the upgrade on my phone.  This morning I can say that it appears to have fixed a lot of the problems I’ve encountered with 2.01. The VPN client will now run on both WiFi and 3G [...]

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Palringo launches Push-to-Talk on iPhone.

August 19, 2008

Today Palringo is unveiling their “vocal instant messaging” on iPhone.  It lets users send the equivalent of a text message, but by voice.  Sound familiar?  Of course.  It’s the service we’ve all come to know and love as “push to talk”.  But unlike traditional push to talk services, this one spans handsets from Apple, Nokia, [...]

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