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Cubic Telecom: Your Phone has No Home

Cubic launched its service, MaxRoam, at TechCrunch40 last week. The crux of their offering is that you can take a secondary phone with you when you travel, forward your existing number to it, and roam wherever you are at local calling rates. David Pogue wrote it up...

iPhone Mania Persists Despite Apple’s Cold Shoulder

As Liz Gannes reports, iPhone mania persists in NYC, with folks lining up at 3AM clutching fistfuls of twenties to buy iPhones five at a time — for export to Europe. This despite the fact that Apple has been throwing cold water on the whole iPhone unlocking...

Why is Apple Charging Canadians More?

Last week the Canadian Dollar reached parity with the US dollar. In fact, it’s been within 5% of the value of the US greenback for about 3 months now. Today, it’s actually worth more than $1 USD. Which brings to mind the obvious question for any...

Taking Advantage of U.S. Short-sightedness

There’s a hole you could drive a truck through in U.S. economic development  and immigration policy, which represents a substantial competitive advantage for Canada in furthering its own economic development and the growth of its knowledge-based industries. ...

Palm Kills the FOLEO

As Om reported yesterday, Palm killed the FOLEO.  Great!  It was a still-born project from the start, as I pointed out (among a long list of others) in May when it launched at D3.  Fundamentally it speaks to the ability of companies to be overrun by rock star...