Archive for April, 2004
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Monday, April 26th, 2004Two of the biggest questions in the high-tech world this week are whether Nortel CEO Frank “Silent Man” Dunn and Google Inc. will provide insight into what's happening with their companies. On Thursday, Nortel will post its first-quarter results, and during a conference call analysts are expected to ask Dunn questions such as: when do [...]
CRTC gives in
Saturday, April 24th, 2004After being pestered by several carriers, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommmunications Commission has decided to extend the process to create new rules for Internet telephony. Rather than an April 28 deadline for submissions, the CRTC will now give interested parties - mostly incumbents carriers - until June 18. A two-day discussion session will be held [...]
Hockey Night in Canada theme song on the Web
Friday, April 23rd, 2004By Mark Evans
With the playoffs in full swing and three Canadian teams still in contention for the Stanley Cup, hockey fans may be happy to discover they can now buy the theme song from Hockey Night in Canada.
For the first time since Dolores Claman wrote The Hockey Theme in 1968, fans can purchase the song [...]
And the envelope says : Nortel's Q1 results are…..
Thursday, April 22nd, 2004I'm not sure about you but the suspense about Nortel's first-quarter results is excruciating - okay, that's somewhat melodramatic but you don't get this kind of telecom suspense too often. With Lucent, Motorola and Sony Ericsson posting good quarterly results this week, all eyes will be on how Nortel fares. From the outside looking in, [...]
CRTC Re-thinks VOIP Process
Monday, April 19th, 2004Looks like the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission may be re-thinking its expedited process to establish new rules for VOIP. Today, it announced an April 28th deadline for industry participants to make submissions has been put on hold. This could mean the VOIP process will be extended so that a more in-depth discussion and thinking [...]
Nortel Beyond the Accounting Woes
Thursday, April 15th, 2004Mark Evans
Financial Post, April 15
Amid the regulatory investigations into Nortel Networks Corp.'s accounting troubles, there has been little attention paid to the telecom equipment maker's business and the modest improvement happening in an industry recovering from a severe three-year slump.
Granted, it is difficult to seriously look at Nortel's fundamentals when there are U.S. Securities & [...]
Vonage Comes to Canada
Tuesday, April 13th, 2004After much speculation, Vonage is finally coming to Canada - joining Primus in the VOIP market. Aside from the intriguing geek factor, the prospects for Vonage and other Internet telephony providers is likely limited north of the border because Canada's residential phone prices are so low. This eliminates the marketing tool Vonage has been leveraging [...]
Gmail: Caveat Emptor
Thursday, April 8th, 2004Mark Evans
Financial Post
Everyone knows there's no such thing as a free lunch, and Gmail is a perfect example.
Google plans to launch a Web-based e-mail product in a market already dominated by Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail and Yahoo! Inc.'s Yahoo Mail. To attract consumers and stake out its own distinct turf, Google will provide Gmail users with [...]
RIM: Back in Black(berry)
Thursday, April 8th, 2004If there's a high-tech company on a huge roll right now, it's Research In Motion, which reported that fourth-quarter profits more than doubled, while the number of people using its Blackberry device surpassed one million for the first time. If that wasn't impressive, RIM boosted financial guidance for the first and second quarters of [...]
What happened Nokia?
Wednesday, April 7th, 2004Is the telecom boom over? It is a legitimate question after Nokia said its first-quarter sales and earnings will be below expectations. While it would be easy to say the telecom sector's rebound was short-lived, a more accurate explanation is that Nokia's rivals are making life more difficult. In Canada, the hot handhelds in the [...]
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