internet

Rogers Portable Internet

October 6, 2007

It's Thanksgiving Weekend here in Canada, which means that once again we're visiting the in-laws in Kitchener, Ontario. As I've mentioned previously, that means no internet. This time around it also made a great excuse to try Rogers new Portable Internet product. Rogers Portable Internet runs over the Inukshuk WiMax network, jointly owned by Rogers [...]

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Personalization is the Future

November 21, 2006

In The Race to Create a ‘Smart Google’, Fortune writer Jeffrey O’Brien explores the world of recommendation engines.Â Notionally, these are software agents that watch user behaviour in different contexts, and make recommendations based on the learning they glean from these contexts.Â They’ve been around for a long time.Â Amazon’s recommendations are probably the most [...]

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Geist on Internet Surveillance

October 31, 2006

Michael Geist’s column in the paper this morning highlights how government is attempting to re-introduce internet surveillance legislation by splitting opposition from privacy advocates and civil society advocates.Â His blog entry covers the same ground as the paper, so if you can’t read the Toronto Star, or Ottawa Citizen, you can read his point of [...]

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"You don't know **** about the Internet, you're just the guy in charge of regulating it."

July 13, 2006

Jon Stewart has a go at Senator Ted Stevens on the Daily Show. Worth a viewing!

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Nokia Employees Forbidden to Use the Word Phone

May 15, 2006

From the Seattle Times: Harry SantamÃ¤ki vows to take a sip of cod liver oil from the bottle on his desk if he ever utters the word phone. That’s odd, considering SantamÃ¤ki works at Nokia, the largest mobile phone maker in the world. “We are forbidden to call them phones,” said the vice president of [...]

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Pew on Cellphone Usage

April 9, 2006

The Pew Internet and American Life Project is an amazing resource. The project is a Pew Research Center, a subsidiary of the Pew Charitable Trusts. They publish 15 to 20 pieces of detailed trend research a year, and it’s absolutely free. Their latest, on Cell Phone Usage, has some fabulous information in it about how [...]

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The Internet is Everywhere

February 16, 2006

In 1998 and 1999, Microsoft CTO Craig Mundie and I sat in his office over a period of months, prior to the launch of UPnP, and talked through a bunch of scenarios where the internet was ubiquitous. We sketched out a world where most of my devices, wired and wireless, would have an IP address assigned [...]

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Videotron Wins With VoIP

September 7, 2005

Videotron now has 75,000 VoIP customers, and is adding them at a rate of 4,000 per week. For a small, Quebec-based, cable player these are fabulous results.

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