January 2009

Tech in Canada. The precursors of success are here.

January 20, 2009

Canada has many of the right conditions for a successful technology sector, but funding remains a problem.

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Tech in Canada. Losing our ability to innovate.

January 19, 2009

Saturday’s Globe and Mail ran a piece titled Canadian innovation which focused, in part, on the collapse of Nortel and what that means for entrepreneurship in Canada.  Without a strong research focused market leader, like Nortel, as a breeding ground for new entrepreneurs, where do they come from? The Globe identifies taxation, training and business [...]

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Tech in Canada. Can we do more than play hockey?

January 19, 2009

Today’s Ottawa Citizen carries a column by Randall Denley titled Nortel’s failure a depressing blow.  Denley asks if the people of Canada are good at anything but playing hockey, noting that: Many of Canada’s best-known companies have failed to become world-class players and have fallen prey to better managed, more entrepreneurial foreign competitors Denley also [...]

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Squawk Box January 16: Windows 7 Beta

January 16, 2009

It had been seven days since the Windows 7 beta was released. On the SquawkBox Conference Call we discussed Windows 7, people’s experience with it, and the controversies surrounding it.

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People aren’t clamouring for HD audio!

January 16, 2009

Rich Tehrani and Andy Abramson are talking HD audio and video today.  To say that they’re both effusive would be an understatement.  Plus, there’s no denying that higher quality audio is a great improvement to a phone call. Rich begins his post saying: Circuit switched telephony technology is now half a century old or so [...]

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The first digital presidential portrait

January 15, 2009

In the category of well worth noting – the first digital presidential portrait.  George W. Bush’s would naturally have been taken with a film camera, as it was taken eight years ago, which is an eternity in the tech business.

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After scrapping Dodgeball, what next Google?

January 15, 2009

Is Google backing away from its ambitions to be a next generation communications player?  After acquiring Jaiku and GrandCentral in 2007, Dodgeball in 2005, and releasing Google Talk in 2005, it looked as if the company was readying plans to be a dominant real-time communications utility.  As of yesterday, however, it seems those plans may [...]

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Is the end in sight for Nortel?

January 14, 2009

Nortel’s stock price dipped 20% yesterday to a mere 38.5 cents, amid rumours that the company would declare bankruptcy in the face of a $107 million interest payment.  This morning’s Globe and Mail confirms that the Nortel board met last night, and has apparently decided in favour of bankruptcy. It marks the beginning of the [...]

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BT gains a Telco 2.0 bright light.

January 13, 2009

Congratulations are in order for STL Partners Chief Analyst Martin Geddes who joins British Telecom as Head of Strategy.  Long time readers will know Martin as the brains behind Telco 2.0, the author of the Telepocalypse blog, and one of the brightest lights in the emerging telecom community.  Well done Martin! And none other than [...]

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The return of the SquawkBox podcast

January 12, 2009

I’ve got a couple of exciting SquawkBox calls to tell you all about. First, this Friday January 16th, seven days after the release of the Windows 7 beta, I’ll be hosting a roundtable discussion for people who’ve either tried the beta or are curious about it.  It should be an interesting and fun talk.  Join [...]

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