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Monthly Archives: May 2004
VON Canada
Jeff Pulver's VON roadshow rolled into Canada for the first time last week with a lineup that featured Skype Technologies CEO Niklas Zennstrom. VON's debut was timely because VOIP is just starting to gain momentum in Canada with Primus and Vonage offering service, while Yak Communications, AOL Canada and Telus planning to start later this [...]
Nortel: The Beat Goes On
So Nortel paid its senior executives cash bonuses in January even though its books were being examined by its indepedent audit committee. You have to wonder if the company's senior management had any clear about how far they had wondered off the track. This was a company just starting to get back on its feet [...]
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Cool VOIP technology
For anyone who's read this blog, one of my hobby-horses about residential VOIP is the need for it to become more user-friendly. Right now, it's mostly the domain of tech-savvy pioneers who live in single-phone households. That said, it always find it interesting to stumble across companies with technology to make VOIP easier to use. [...]
Nortel: Now the fun begins
With the Attorney General in Dallas asking Nortel for all kinds of documents, Nortel's accounting troubles look like they are headed toward the criminal arena. Can anyone say fraud? It is impossible to tell who the authorities have targeted but you have to believe that no one is going to go down by themselves. Once [...]
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Telus-Microcell: An Unholy Union?
Just when you thought Telus was about to make a hostile bid for Allstream Inc., it catches many people off-guard with a $1.1 billion deal for Microcell Telecommunications. The deal doesn't make much sense from a technological basis because Telus uses different wireless technology – CDMA – than Microcell – GSM. So, it's not like [...]






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