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Twitter- markevans: I've been doing a lot of messaging & usability work recently for start-ups. It's a nice change of pace from social media strategy & tactics
- markevans: The West Toronto Railpath is one of Toronto's new urban gems - http://bit.ly/byUfwG. It would be great to see something along Dupont.#bikes
- markevans: @delip You may want to make it easier to apply for the Twezr beta by putting a direct link on the home page. Right now, it's confusing.
- markevans: An interesting podcast on NPR about how technology and always being connected is affecting our brains and how we think: http://n.pr/cVScxF
- markevans: The problem with Apple's new Ping service, including the fact iTunes is not social via @techcrunch - http://tcrn.ch/bhc9Es #ping #apple
Category Archives: ILEC News, Analysis
Bell's Brilliant Strategy: Charge for GPS!
Armed with a gazillion dollars in debt (Actually, $30-billion give or take a few dollars) if a private equity buy-out is consummated, Bell Canada’s new corporate mantra is: more cash flow, more cash flow. In practical terms, what it means … Continue reading
Canadian Cablecos Winning High-Speed Game
Earlier this month, Silicon Valley Insider took a look at how the cable companies and telecos fared during Q2 in the high-speed Internet business. When it came to growth, the cable companies kicked some serious butt by taking 73% of … Continue reading
Welcome to Bell Canada Lite
One of the most puzzling aspects of Bell Canada’s announcement earlier this week it was slashing 2,500 management jobs was that some analysts seemed surprised. In the wake of a leveraged buy-out that has left with more than $30-billion of … Continue reading
Goodbye, All-You-Can-Eat Web; Hello, Higher Broadband Profits
Not sure why this is big news but Time-Warner is testing the concept of metered bandwidth usage with broadband customers in Beaumont, Tex. Come on, we’re talking about a cable company looking at yet another way to squeeze even more … Continue reading
Net Neutrality Finally Rears Ugly Head in Canada
At one time, Canada was among the world leaders in Internet access, ranking second beyond South Korea in broadband penetration. Those days now seem like a distance memory as Canada moves ever closer to becoming a second-tier online country that … Continue reading
The Web As We Know It is Dying
As an eternal optimist, this is difficult to admit: the Web is dying a slow, but painful, death. The wonderful, Wild West, anything goes landscape that has made the Web so fascinating, innovative, fast-paced and useful is poised to disappear … Continue reading
Canada Needs an Arrington!
It has been interesting to watch Michael Arrington (aka the “Wizard of Web 2.0″) launch a tsunami of outrage against Comcast in California after his high-speed connection was cut off on Friday night, and Comcast failed to provide him with … Continue reading
Time-Warner's Being Smart Not Greedy
Everyone seems to be up in arms about how Time-Warner plans to penalize broadband users if they consume too much bandwidth. The sky is falling, it’s the end of broadband as a buffet service, Time-Warner is evil, consumers are being … Continue reading
AT&T's Big Brother Plans
This sounds crazy but an AT&T executive James Ciccioni has raised the idea of monitoring every single packet traveling over its Internet network to see if intellectual property violations are happening. Slate’s Tim Wu picked on this bizarre notion – … Continue reading
High-Speed Internet = High Prices in Canada
There used to be two facts about high-speed Internet access that Canadians used to boast about: we had the highest penetration of broadband users in the world, and prices were reasonable. Well, neither of those are true anymore. In terms … Continue reading