Monthly Archives: September 2008

Bell’s Brilliant Strategy: Charge for GPS!

By Mark Evans | Published: September 25, 2008
Armed with a gazillion dollars in debt (Actually, $30-billion give or take a few dollars) if a private equity buy-out is consummated, Bell Canada’s new corporate mantra is: more cash flow, more cash flow. In practical terms, what it means is Bell needs to squeeze as many dollars as it possibly can from consumers without squeezing [...]
Posted in ILEC News, Analysis | 1 Comment

PlanetEye Wins Fast 50 Award

By Mark Evans | Published: September 25, 2008
With the recent launch of our new design, there has been a lot of working happening behind the scenes to make PlanetEye one of the world’s leading online travel planning destinations. So, it’s exciting and gratifying to be recognized as one of Canada’s Companies-to-Watch Award as part of the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards. The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Common Craft Tackles Search

By Mark Evans | Published: September 24, 2008
I’m a big fan of the Common Craft videos, which explain technology in plain English that anyone can understand – even my mother (aka The Luddite). The latest offering looking at doing effective Web searches. You have to love how it uses “mullet” as an example. Technorati Tags: search engines, common craft
Posted in Search Engines, Video | 1 Comment

Tracking the the Conversations

By Mark Evans | Published: September 23, 2008
When it comes to social media, everyone talks about being part of the conversation. As a result, there’s a lot of talking happening on blogs, micro-blogs (Twitter, et al) and social networks. One of the challenges is trying to listen to all these conversations. If you’re interested in a particular idea, issue, trend, company or person, [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 | 2 Comments

It’s the Keyboard, Stupid

By Mark Evans | Published: September 23, 2008
For all the talk about whether the iPhone is going to hammer the Blackberry, there are plenty of reasons why that won’t happen. Perhaps the biggest – and the most obvious – is the Blackberry has a fully-functional keyboard so you can easily write e-mails, text messages and blog posts. Aside from the Blackberry’s durability and robust [...]
Posted in Google, Wireless | 12 Comments

Chrome Quickly Loses its Shine

By Mark Evans | Published: September 23, 2008
It’s only been a few weeks since Google unleashed Chrome but the buzz seems to have pretty much evaporated. There are probably happy Chrome users but given the excitement about its debut, the Web’s newest browser (the one that was going to reignite the browser wars) appears to have fallen flat. You don’t hear people raving [...]
Posted in Browsers, Google | 19 Comments
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