I have just realized that FOIB and ianbell.com passed their 10-year anniversary some time in 2009 without me really marking the event. During that time I’ve authored thousands of articles, missives, and comments that have been shared from my online pulpit and...
The answer, in my article over at GigaOM.com, is resoundingly NO. But there’s more to it than that. My argument in this piece was largely an economic one, not as much a dissertation on the independent merits of the protocols in play. I do think that the issues...
I attended the Connect09 event this evening and was pleased to see such an active, engaged turnout and such a well-organized event. Hardly the picture one would paint if they’d already drawn the conclusion that the tech economy in this province was dead. But I...
Canadians want their Kindle. The device, which Forrester predicts Amazon will sell 1.8 Million copies of during 2009, is becoming a force in the publishing industry — and may well be Amazon’s iPod. As an example of its early impact, fully 5% of the...
Correct me if I’m wrong, but every Apple product I’ve ever seen can be turned OFF (except for the iPod shuffle). In the storied annals of consumer electronics, I am betting there’s generally a good reason for this. In my naive experience, things...
The blogosphere is all a-twitter about yesterday’s East Texas court judgment, which previously awarded $290 Million to appropriately-named Canadian patent troll i4i (well, OK, not exactly a troll) and further granted them an injunction preventing Redmond from...
