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Monthly Archives: September 2005
Friday Morning Bytes: Cool Events, P2P, Emily Chang Rocks
Event Envy: I'm not a big conference fan but it's difficult not to get a bad case of event-envy when it comes to things such as Demo, GnomeDex, CES and Web 2.0,
which takes place next week. If you're into technology, these are the
places to discover what's coming down the pipe. I either need a
different job [...]
Posted in Main Page, Web-based Services 1 Comment
Virgin Canada Drops Pre-Paid Prices
Just when you thought Canada's wireless industry had all agreed (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) to “pricing stability”, Virgin Mobile Canada
comes and wrecks the party by offering a new pre-paid plan featuring
10¢ a minute calls (plus a 40¢ a day fee). It's a huge drop given
Virgin was charging 25¢ for the first five minutes and 15¢ [...]
Posted in Main Page, Wireless 2 Comments
RIM's Going to Make it After All
Apologies for title's reference to the theme song from the Mary Tyler Moore Show,
but when will people stop saying “Sure RIM is a great company but there
are only xx million Blackbery users?”. Maybe today is the day after RIM
said it expects to have five million subscribers by end of fiscal 2006
while sales will be about [...]
Posted in Main Page, Wireless/Research in Motion 3 Comments
VoIPSupply.com Moves into Canada
VoIPSupply.com has reached out to Canadian consumers with the launch of canadianvoipstore.com. Aside from selling in Canadian
dollars, the site will offer more than 1,000 different SKUs. Given Voxilla
moved into Canada earlier this year, perhaps it's a sign the market is
expected to gain strong momentum now that Rogers, Bell, Shaw, Cogeco
and Videotron are offering service – [...]
Posted in Main Page, VOIP Services, Competition Leave a comment
The Best Skype Ever!…a.k.a. Another Upgrade
Given it's been in beta since August, no one should be surprised by the launch of Skype 1.4,
which offers ways for users to personalize the service with ringtones,
sounds and photos. The most interesting part of the press release is
that Skype has signed up another two million users since the eBay deal,
an now has more than [...]






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