“Information wants to be free..” or so said Marshall McLuhan. Steve Jobs should heed this as a warning, rather than just using McLuhan’s image as a marketing shill as Apple did during its “Think Different” campaign. Apple’s...
Tonight at Vancouver’s Launch Party event, Lypp’s Erik Lagerway will be talking about their new service and API. Earlier today I talked about MaxRoam and its game-changing technique to defeat mobile roaming and long-distance costs. Both companies are...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
Through various chicanes and twists I stumbled today on a 20-minute talk from TED 2005 by architect and designer William McDonough. There is of course much discussion of sustainability at events like this, but moreso than most he’s a guy who’s walking the...
Hockey and Hollywood have never been comfortable bedfellows. Perhaps the main reason why, is that every American’s perception of the beautiful game has been conventionalized by a certain movie-that-shall-not-be-discussed. Hockey’s been a minor backdrop...
If you don’t know what it’s like to hand dial your computer’s connection to the outside world, you probably missed out on some of the early lessons that have steered some of the internet’s most successful people. Or so says James Hong. I...
