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See you at Mesh 2009! April 7th-8th.

March 30, 2009

I’ll be attending Mesh 2009 this year, and I’m super excited about it. The friendships I’ve made and the things I learned at my last conference we’re worth every penny. I wrote a more detailed Mesh post on the TechSMB blog which you can find here.

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It’s Time We Built a Better GPS

February 4, 2009

This post is going to serve as my GPS rant page. After owning several models of GPS devices over a number of years, I’m surprised at the general lack of improvements made to them. To that end, below is my contribution as a consumer to the world of GPS: Problem #1: Too Much Chatter I [...]

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Cool searches from TinEye, the image search engine by idée

June 24, 2008

As TinEye, an image powered search engine builds its image library, its beta users are beginning to see the power and usefulness of it all. Even with a relatively small index of a half billion images, some very cool search results have been shared by TinEye’s loyal users base, as Heather Williams points out on [...]

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Telus iPhone, Here it Comes Canada

January 15, 2008

Analysts are predicting that Telus Corp. will consider the move to GSM to remain competitive within the Canadian market. Telus, which operates a CDMA cellular network cannot currently offer the iPhone to its users since the iPhone only supports GSM, a standard widely supported in North America and overseas. There were some predictions in the [...]

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I’m in the Globe and Mail Business Section Today

May 17, 2007

Globe and Mail reporter, Paul Lima, asked if I would speak with him about a piece he was writing about the state of unified messaging. The article was printed in today’s Globe in the business section, titled “Here, There and Everywhere“. It’s an exciting time for me and the team at HIP. The technology we’re [...]

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Where’s the Pied Piper when the Telcos Need Him?

May 13, 2007

These photos were sent to me by a friend working for a local Toronto CLEC. During a visit to troubleshoot audio problems with calls passing through their phone switch, the technician found a simple diagnosis to their problem. Their best guess was this little guy was looking for somewhere warm to sleep when his furry [...]

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The Real Reason Zuckerberg Passed up a $1 Billion Offer for Facebook.

April 29, 2007

Fast Company recently reported that Mark Zuckerberg passed up Yahoo’s $1 billion dollar offer for Facebook. Zuck, as Mark is affectionately known by many, passed on the offer for good reason: he doesn’t actually own the world’s fastest growing social networking website, the CIA does. Earlier in the week I was out with my friend [...]

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Display Shutdown Delay – Using Your Head

April 6, 2007

How often do you sit in front of your notebook computer, reading an interesting blog post or news article when ‘poof‘, your display shuts down or dims because your power management setting ‘turns off display after 3 minutes’? It’s not a big deal really; To instantly restore the display, you simply drag your finger across [...]

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Free Broadband from Google – Toilet Not Included

April 1, 2007

After reading about Google’s innovative new TiSP product, I realized it must be April 1st. You gotta hand it to the pranksters at Google though… even their pranks seem to have a decent amount of legitimacy. I wonder how many PhDs they put to task on this one. [Google press release]. “Google TiSP (BETA) is [...]

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2006: Why are we still using Business Cards?

November 5, 2006

Mark Evans wonders “… does it strike anyone as strange that business cards are still alive and well?” It’s a good question, but one that is easily answered, at least for me. The Chinese view the business card as a gift. To receive one and not carefully examine it for a few moments would surely [...]

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