The big news from last week’s Apple WWDC was of course the new iPhone 3GS. The features are obviously a significant evolution of the already successful iPhone 3G… so this is good news for Apple fanboys and shareholders. Last week, the Nielsen blog...
Skype for the iPhone is a much-hyped and very cool app that’s not available (legally) for us Canadians despite the fact that it is free and offered by a global company. There are of course workarounds but this is a kludge and not for the feint-of-heart. In...
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” — Archilochus Which one are you? The ancient parable of the fox and the hedgehog has come into increasing view in popular culture lately. And while its origins are somewhat ambiguous, the...
Skype launched an iPhone client this week, everywhere except for Canada. According to a Skype representative interviewed by Tom Keating, “There are some patent-licensing issues which prevent us from offering it there.” Translation: This is a...
When I was a boy growing up in Burnaby, we would gather each March in the parking lot at the Crest Plaza strip mall to plot our baseball season. Inside of the local eatery parents and league officials would conduct a draft, seeding players onto teams and organizing...
While there is much kvetching and hand-wringing of late regarding impending demise of the dead-tree business (sic) that is the newspaper industry, there is another dead-tree business that is descending quickly toward irrelevance:Â The Yellow Pages. Every year,...
