Monthly Archives: May 2005

Wi-Fi Woes

By Mark Evans | Published: May 30, 2005
Toronto-based venture capitalist Rick Segal – a.k.a. The Post Money Value – has some gripes this morning about accessing “free” Wi-Fi at Cora's, a local breakfast spot. He criticizes the access provider – Sesame Networks – for its user-unfriendly process to log on to the free service. Among his woes is some fine print the [...]
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Vonage: Raise a Lot, Spend a Lot

By Mark Evans | Published: May 29, 2005
According to ClickZ, Vonage spent $21.8 million in April on advertising. As Om Malik succinctly puts it: now you can see why they needed to raise $200-million in private equity recently. Clearly, Vonage believes it's in an “Amazing Race” to establish itself as one of the VOIP service providers in North America before the cablecos [...]
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Canadian Telecom Summit: The Who's Who in Toronto

By Mark Evans | Published: May 29, 2005
One of the events of the telecom industry – at least in Canada – is the Canadian Telecom Summit, which goes from Monday to Wednesday in Toronto. The keynote speakers include Nortel CEO Bill Owens, Vonage CEO Jeff Citron, MCI CEO Michael Capellas, BCE CEO Michael Sabia and Avaya CEO Don Peterson. While a jam-packed [...]
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Skype: We Now Accept PayPal

By Mark Evans | Published: May 28, 2005
Skype resolved a major sales hurdle for customers living outside Europe when it officially launched PayPal today as a payment option. This means people who buy premium based services such as SkypeIn and SkypeOut at skype.com can use PayPal to pay using a credit card, bank account or stored balance. While I was once a [...]
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VOIP Me When I need to Pit Stop

By Mark Evans | Published: May 27, 2005
In another attempt to force VOIP into the mainstream conciousness, Cisco will arm Indy 500 drivers Eddie Cheever and Patrick Carpentier with technology to communicate with their engineers and pit crews during the upcoming race. The technology, which includes Cisco service access points, routers and wireless IP phones, will provide pit crews and both drivers [...]
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Well Done, Ms. Mackenzie

By Mark Evans | Published: May 27, 2005
After two years heading up Nortel's P.R. department, Marion Mackenzie is moving on to greener and, hopefully, calmer pastures. It has to be one of the most demanding and thankless corporate P.R. jobs given Nortel's accounting woes, senior management changes and business challenges. If anything, doing “time” at Nortel is a great way to [...]
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